2021-2022

Sixteen graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2021-22. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Harrison Algra (Wang), Data Scientist, Thrackle
  • Irmak Balcik (Kamienny), Postdoc, Univ of Texas, Austin 
  • Peter Kagey (Assaf), Visiting Asst Prof, Harvey Mudd College
  • Jinting Liu (Bartroff, Sun), Data Scientist, MobilityWare Inc.
  • David Massatt (Kukavica), Mathematician/Numerical Analyst, Aerospace Corporation
  • Clemens Oszkinat (Rosen), Actuary, HansMerkur Insurance Company
  • Jiyeon Park (Newton), Postdoc, University of Utah
  • Austin Pollok (Zhang), Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Science and Operations, USC Marshall School
  • Alexander Port (Asok), Data Scientist, Thrackle
  • Apoorva Shah (Lototsky), Data Scientist, Neal Analytics
  • Maxwell C. Siegel (Kamienny, Haydn)
  • Jihoon Sohn (Bonahon)
  • Alex Tarter (Goldstein), Statistician, NASS US Dept of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service
  • Christopher Wayne Walker (Goldstein), Senior Engineer, Northrup Gruman
  • Lang Wang (Minsker), Data Scientist, MobilityWare Inc.
  • Yusheng Wu (Lototsky, Tong)

2020-2021

Fifteen graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2020-21. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Asserian, Lernik (Rosen), Lecturer, Stanford University
  • Dai, Zheng (Rosen), Biostatistician, Medtronic Inc
  • Feng, Pengbin (Ma/Zhang), Research Scientist, Amazon
  • Gangopadhyay, Ujan (Alexander), Postdoc, NUS (Natl Univ of Singapore)
  • Hawekotte, Keenan (Rosen), Machine Learning Engr, Searchable.ai
  • Lu, Yu Leo (Wang), Data scientist, Northrop Grumman
  • Luo, Jiajun (Minsker), Didi Labs
  • Luo, Man (Ma), Quant research, Guotai Junan Securities Asset Mgmt
  • Quijada, Danjoseph (Assaf), Lecturer, USC
  • Rahmani, Arash John (Fulman), Data Scientist, Accenture
  • Rickard, Calum (Jang), Arthur J Krener Asst Prof, UC Davis
  • Wickham, Zachary (Ziane), Lecturer, USC
  • Wu, Wenqian (Ma), Quant Trader, Guotai Junan Securities
  • Yao, Mengsha (Rosen), Postdoc, Temple University
  • Zhu, Zimu (Zhang), Postdoc UCSB

2019-2020

Thirteen graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2019-20. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Aronowitz, Julian (Bartroff), Data Scientist, Palo Alto Networks
  • Douglas, Daniel (Bonahon), Postdoc associate Yale (1 yr), Gibbs Assistant Professor Yale (2 yrs)
  • Gang, Bowen (Minsker), Assistant Professor (TT), Fudan University, Stat Department
  • He, Xinrui (Bartroff), Data Scientist, Google
  • McKemmie, Eilidh (Guralnick), Postdoc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1 yr)
  • Ozdemir, Alperen (Fulman), Hale Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (3 yrs)
  • Phonsom, Chukiat (Mikulevicius), NLP research, Alexandria Technology, Research and Investment
  • Ruan, Jie (Zhang), Research Scientist, Facebook
  • Temirgaliyeva, Zhanerke (Ziane), Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder (1 yr)
  • Wang, Weinan (Kukavica), Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arizona (2020-2023). Postdoc MSRI, Spring 2021
  • Wu, Hao (Zhang), Machine learning Engineering, Google
  • Yang, Jiaowen (Teng), Research Scientist, Facebook
  • Zhang, Dong (Bonahon), Quant Analyst, Western Asset Management

2018-2019

Seven graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2018-19. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Wintner, Moses (Rosen), Data Scientist, Kaiser Permanante Health Innovation Studio
  • Wiroonsri, Nathakhun (Goldstein), Instructor, King Mongkut University Of Technology Thonburi
  • Sandoval Gonzalez, Nicolle (Lauda/Assaf), UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
  • Xu, Fanhui (Mikulevicius), Postdoctoral Associate (NTT), Carnegie Mellon University (3 yrs)
  • Demirkaya, Emre (Goldstein), Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Kleen, Viktor (Asok), Postdoc (NTT), University Duisburg-Essen (3 yrs)
  • Li, Shuang (Rosen), Data Scientist, Warner Bros. Entertainment

2017-2018

Sixteen graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2017-18. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Bhattacharjee, Chinmoy (Goldstein), Postdoc, IMSV, University of Bern
  • Camliyurt, Guher (Kukavica), Member, Institute for Advanced Study (1 yr), Dickson Inst, U of Chicago (3 yrs)
  • Donner, Matthew (Guralnick), Hedging intern, Allianz Life
  • Egilmez, Ilknur (Lauda), Data Science / Data Engineering Intern, Rehinged
  • Hankin, Michael (Bartroff), Statistician, Google
  • Kantarci, Ezgi (Assaf), Postdoc, Sabanci Univeristy; Postdoc, KTH, Sweden (starting Fall 2019)
  • Kim, Gene B (Fulman), Lecturer, USC (2018-2019); Lecturer, Stanford (2019 – 2022)
  • Kim, Hyun-Jung (Lototsky), Postdoc, Illinois Inst of Technology
  • Martone, Giuseppe (Bonahon), Post doc Asst Prof, U of Michigan
  • Noh, Eunjung (Ma), Hills Asst Prof (NTT), Rutgers Univ
  • Oguz, Can Ozan (Lauda), Postdoc, Galatasaray University
  • Ozel, Enes (Fulman), Adjunct Asst Prof, UCLA
  • Sirlanci, Melike (Rosen), Postdoc, Comput & Math Sci, Caltech (2 yrs)
  • Sun, Rentao (Ma), Data scientist, The Data Incubator
  • Tian, Bin (Bonahon/Honda), Research Scientist, Pactera
  • Wang, Jian (Lototsky), Assistant Vice President, Risk Management, Citi Bank

2016-17

Eight graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2016-17. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Acu, Bahar (Bonahon), Boas Asst Prof (NTT) of Math, Northwestern
  • Ejder, Ozlem (Kamienny), Post-doc, Colorado State University
  • Gerhardt, Spencer (Guralnick), Post-doc, Colorado State University
  • Lamberto-Egan, Laffite (Lauda), Teacher, Harvard Westlake College Prep, 8/16
  • Nguyen, Dinh, Trung (Fulman), Polytechnic high school Pasadena
  • Wang, Fei (Kukavica), Brin Postdoctoral fellowship, Univ of Maryland
  • Wu, Cong (Zhang), Quantitative Associate, Wells fargo Bank, San Francisco
  • Xing, Xiaojing (Ma), Quant Associate, Wells Fargo Bank, N. Carolina

2015-16

Eight graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2015-16. Here is the full list, together with their advisor, the current title, and the first place of employment.

  • Abram, Michael (Lauda), Exec VP, Integral Investment Advisors, Inc.
  • Kang, Yongjian (Lv, Zhang), Quant Analyst, Google
  • Karnam, Chandrasekhar (Ma, Zhang), Quant Associate, Morgan Stanley NYC
  • Tsilifis, Panagiotis (Mikulevicius), Postdoc/Research Associate, USC, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Tucker, Henry (Montgomery), Postdoc, UC San Diego
  • Ugurlu, Kerem (Ziane), Postdoc, University of Washington
  • Williams, Andrew (Honda), Teacher, La Canada-Flintridge College Prep
  • Xie, Weisheng (Ma), postdoc, Quant PHD Associate, Wells Fargo Security

2014-15

Nine graduate students from our department received their PhD in 2014-15. Here is the full list, together with the name of their advisor and the first place of employment.

  • Daley, Tim (Waterman/Smith), postdoctoral research associate, Computational Biology, USC
  • Keller, Christian (Zhang), Don Lewis Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  • Newman, Burt (Kamienny), postdoctoral research associate, Department of Computer Science, USC
  • Ren, Haining (Fulman), data scientist at Pixalate, Santa Monica, CA
  • Wang, Jian (Kamienny), postdoc, Tsinghua University
  • Warner, Jared (E. Friedlander), tenure-track assistant professor, City University of New York, Guttman College
  • Yang, Fan (Haydn), postdoc, Federal University of Rio, Brazil
  • Zhang, Tian (Ma), data scientist, Avant Inc.
  • Zheng, Zeming (Goldstein), tenure-track assistant professor, University of Science and Technology of China