Department of Economics

Student Directory

Meet our dedicated doctoral students, each pursuing transformative and compelling projects across various areas of economic research. Explore their academic interests, research contributions, and contact information to learn more about our USC PhD in Economics students' innovative work and opportunities for collaboration.

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Patricia Caetano

pcaetano@usc.edu

Matteo Fossi

Shuaiyu Jiang

shuaiyuj@usc.edu

Kehui “Chris” Leng

kehuilen@usc.edu

Jinlin Li

jinlinli@usc.edu

Changfeng Liu

changfen@usc.edu

Odera Onyechi

onyechi@usc.edu

Jeonggil Song

jeonggil@usc.edu

Ren Su

Xuemeng Yin

xuemengy@usc.edu

Hamzah Ahmed

hamzahah@usc.edu

Priya Chaturvedi

priyac@usc.edu
LinkedIn

Juan Gonzalez

juanbgon@usc.edu

Dong Hyeok Kang

dkang255@usc.edu

Joshua Levy

Hang Liu

hliu9506@usc.edu
Field I: Macro-finance
Field II: Financial Intermediaries

Zhihan Liu

zliu1600@usc.edu

Keshar Shahi

kesharsh@usc.edu

Sankalp Sharma

ssharma9@usc.edu
Website | LinkedIn

Siqi Su

Akash Thakkar

akashtha@usc.edu

Yizhong Wang

yizhongw@usc.edu
Field I: Industrial Organization
Field II: Health Economics
LinkedIn

Yujue Wang

Ziwei Yu

yuziwei@usc.edu

Dingfan Zhang

dingfanz@usc.edu

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Jingshu Chen

jingshuc@usc.edu

Pierre Coster

pcoster@usc.edu

Alison De Farias

defarias@usc.edu

Santiago De Martini

sd59576@usc.edu

Julian Duggan

jcduggan@usc.edu

Jirong He

jironghe@usc.edu

Radostin Ivanov

rivanov@usc.edu

Junha Park

junhapar@usc.edu

Aruj Shukla

arujshuk@usc.edu

Saloni Taneja

salonita@usc.edu

Ignacio Torres

ignaciot@usc.edu

Wei Xuan

Hai Zhou

haizhou@usc.edu

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Sijia Chen

sijiac@usc.edu
LinkedIn

Yugen Chen

yugenche@usc.edu

Paul Delatte

delatte@usc.edu
Field I: Econometrics
Website

Vanshika Fotedar

fotedar@usc.edu
Field I: Energy Economics
Field II: Urban Economics
Website

Woo-Jin Kim

woojinki@usc.edu
Field I: Industrial Organization
Field II: Mechanism Design
Linkedin

Nick Langston

nlangsto@usc.edu
Field I: Applied Microeconomics
Field II: Labor Economics
Website | LinkedIn

Marco Lo Faso

Serap Inci Ozyer Koca

ozyerkoc@usc.edu

Mychaela Paetow

mpaetow@usc.edu
Field I: Environmental Economics
Field II: Development Economics
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Juliana Pinillos Perdomo

pinillos@usc.edu
Field I: Environmental Economics
Field II: Applied Microeconomics
Website | LinkedIn

Haoxuan “Jerry” Shen

haoxuans@usc.edu
Field I: Environmental Economics
Field II: Applied Microeconomics
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Daniil “Daniel” Sherstnev

sherstne@usc.edu
Field I: Social Network Analysis
Field II: Industrial Organization

Sai Zhang

saizhang@usc.edu
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Andreas Bech

Shreya Bhardwaj

shreyab@usc.edu
LinkedIn

Matthew Burr

matthecb@usc.edu
Field I: Behavioral & Experimental Economics
Field II: Industrial Organization
LinkedIn

Margarita Khvan

Yakup Kutsal Koca

koca@usc.edu
Website | LinkedIn

Jing Kong

jingkong@usc.edu

Minji Kwak

minjikwa@usc.edu
Field I: Development Economics
Field II: Applied Microeconomics
Website

Wenda Ma

wendama@usc.edu
LinkedIn

Sneha Nimmagadda

snimmaga@usc.edu
Field I: Development Economics
Field II: Applied Microeconomics
LinkedIn

Jin Seok Park

jinseok@usc.edu
Website

Zili Yang

ziliyang@usc.edu
LinkedIn

Isaac Yu

yuzhengy@usc.edu

Xiaoxin Zhang

xiaoxin@usc.edu

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Daniel Angel

aqmateo@usc.edu
Field I: Development Economics
Field II: International Economics
Website

Tao Chen

Minsoo Cho

minsooch@usc.edu

Zhan Gao

zhangao@usc.edu

Francesco Gabriele

fg14007@usc.edu
Field I: Industrial Organization
Field II: Digital Economics
Website | LinkedIn

Alessandro Giambrone

giambron@usc.edu

Wesley Huang

xhuang05@usc.edu
Field I: Econometrics
Field II: Industrial Organization
LinkedIn

Chang Li

lichang@usc.edu
Field I: Industrial Organization
Field II: Econometrics

Qitong Wang

qitong.wang@usc.edu

Zheng Zhang

zhan887@usc.edu
Field I: Macroeconomics
Field II: Development

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Bardia Godazandeh

godazand@usc.edu
Field I: Game Theory
Field II: Econometrics

Rihyun Park

rihyunpa@usc.edu
Field I: Industrial Organization
Field II: Econometrics
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