Graduate Students

• 1^st Year Ph.D. Students
• 2^nd Year Ph.D. Students
• 3^rd Year Ph.D. Students
• Advanced Ph.D. Students
• M.A. Students
• Recent Graduates

1^st Year Ph.D. Students

• Nicholas Bauer
  Email: Nicholas.Bauer@uconn.edu
  
• Bryce Casavant
  Email: Bryce.Casavant@uconn.edu
  
• Ali Fadel
  Email: Ali.Fadel@uconn.edu
  
• Eric Gibbons
  Email: Eric.Gibbons@uconn.edu
  
• Matthew Histen
  Email: Matthew.Histen@uconn.edu
  
• Sara Kauffman
  Email: Sara.Kauffman@uconn.edu
  
• Xiyang Liu
  Email: Xiyang.liu@uconn.edu
  
• Zheng Liu
  Email: Zheng.liu@uconn.edu
  
• Matthew B. Ross
  Email: Matthew.b.ross@uconn.edu
  
• Huanan Xu
  Email: Huanan.xu@uconn.edu
  
• Sadullah Yildirim
  Email: sadullah.yildirim@uconn.edu
  
• Peijingran Yu
  Email: Peijingran.yu@uconn.edu
  
• Chao Zheng
  Email: Chao.zheng@uconn.edu
  
• Yishu Zhou
  Email: Yishu.zhou@uconn.edu
  

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2^nd Year Ph.D. Students

• Can Bekaroğlu
  Email: can.bekaroglu@uconn.edu
  
• Jeliel Darius
  Email: jeliel.darius@uconn.edu
  
• Jesse Kalinowski
  Email: jesse.kalinowski@uconn.edu
  
• Marcello Graziano
  Email: marcello.graziano@uconn.edu
  
• Michael Lorenzo
  Email: michael.w.lorenzo@uconn.edu
  
• Omer Hoke
  Email: omer.hoke@uconn.edu
  
• Rong Zhou
  Email: rong.zhou@uconn.edu
  
• Sining Wang
  Email: sining.wang@uconn.edu
  
• Xinyi Zheng
  Email: xinyi.zheng@uconn.edu
  
• Yichen Liu
  Email: yichen.liu@uconn.edu
  
• Zheng Xu
  Email: zheng.xu@uconn.edu
  

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3^rd Year Ph.D. Students

• Elizabeth Kaletski
  Email: elizabeth.kaletski@uconn.edu
  
• Joshua Ping Ang
  Email: ping.ang@uconn.edu
  Web: http://homepages.uconn.edu/~pma09002/
  Interests: Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Political Economy
• Lisi Shi
  Email: lisi.shi@uconn.edu
  
• Paul Tomolonis
  Email: paul.tomolonis@uconn.edu
  
• Robert Szarka
  Major Advisor: Richard Langlois
  Email: robert.szarka@uconn.edu
  Web: http://homepages.uconn.edu/~rcs08005/
  Interests: Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Political Economy
• Wei Wang
  Email: wei.wang@uconn.edu
  Interests: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
  
• Yuan Wang
  Email: yuan.wang@uconn.edu
  

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Advanced Ph.D. Students

• Archita Banik
  Major Advisor: Dennis Heffley
  Email: archita.banik@uconn.edu
  Interests: Health Economics
• Arnab Kumar Deb
  Email: arnab.deb@uconn.edu
  Interests: Resource Economics
• Ismahile Ba Boukari
  Email: ismahile.ba_boukari@uconn.edu
  Interests:
• Kathryn Parr
  Email: kathryn.parr@uconn.edu
  Interests:
• Leshui He
  Email: leshui.he@uconn.edu
  Web: http://homepages.uconn.edu/~leh06001/
  Interests: Organizational Economics, Institutions, Industrial Organization
• Matthew Schurin
  Email: matthew.schurin@uconn.edu
  
• Matthiew Burnside
  Email: matthiew.burnside@uconn.edu
  Interests: Macroeconomics
• Patrick Flaherty
  Email: patrick.j.flaherty@uconn.edu
  
• Ranjini Neogi
  Email: ranjini.neogi@uconn.edu
  Interests: Urban Economics, Environmental Economics
• Sanglim Lee
  Email: sanglim.lee@uconn.edu
  Interests: Financial Economics, Time-Series Econometrics
• Sharan Hari Sharma
  Email: sharan.sharma@uconn.edu
  Interests: Inequality, Growth
• Shen Jin
  Email: shen.jin@uconn.edu
  
• Stephen Kuchta
  Email: steve.kuchta@uconn.edu
  Interests: Law & Economics, Health Economics, Patent & Intellectual Property Law
  CV
• Troy Helming
  Email: troy.helming@uconn.edu
  Interests:
• Weiran Huang
  Email: weiran.huang@uconn.edu
  

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2011/12 M.A. Students

• Daniel Delavari Younessi
  Email: daniel.delavari_younessi@uconn.edu
  
• Tian Lou
  Email: tian.lou@uconn.edu
  
• Elizabeth Matulle
  Email: Elizabeth.Matulle@uconn.edu
  
• Xin Mo
  Email: Xin.Mo@uconn.edu
  
• Kyle Niejadlik
  Email: kyle.niejadlik@uconn.edu
  
• Patrick M. Smith
  Email: Patrick.M.Smith@uconn.edu
  
• Andrew Sparks
  Email: Andrew.Sparks@uconn.edu
  Interests: Econometrics, Market Forecasting
  
• Nikolai Steffens
  Email: Nikolai.Steffens@uconn.edu
  
• Yuanding Wang
  Email: Yuanding.Wang@uconn.edu
  
• Di Yang
  Email: Di.Yang@uconn.edu
  
• Ailing Zhang
  Email: Ailing.Zhang@uconn.edu
  

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2010/11 M.A. Students

• Ari Patrinos
  Email: aristarchus.patrinos@uconn.edu
  
• Beziel Shambamuto
  Email: beziel.shambamuto@uconn.edu
  
• Bryce Casavant
  Email: bryce.casavant@uconn.edu
  
• Christina Sanville
  Email: christina.sanville@uconn.edu
  
• Chuan Zhang
  Email: chuan.zhang@uconn.edu
  
• Fan Li
  Email: fan.li@uconn.edu
  
• Jennifer Sherwood
  Email: jennifer.sherwood@uconn.edu
  
• Jiaoyuan Huang
  Email: jiaoyuan.huang@uconn.edu
  
• Jin Luo
  Email: jin.luo@uconn.edu
  
• Kanchana Tennekoon
  Email: kanchana.tennekoon@uconn.edu
  
• Lauren Allard
  Email: lauren.a.allard@uconn.edu
  
• Lingxiao Wang
  Email: lingxiao.wang@uconn.edu
  
• Luxiang Zhang
  Email: luxiang.zhang@uconn.edu
  
• Mark Guastaferri
  Email: mark.guastaferri@uconn.edu
  
• Peijingran Yu
  Email: peijingran.yu@uconn.edu
  
• Phuong Wilk
  Email: phuong.wilk@uconn.edu
  
• Qixiao Qian
  Email: qixiao.qian@uconn.edu
  
• Rou Yu Wu
  Email: rou.wu@uconn.edu
  
• Rui Pei
  Email: rui.pei@uconn.edu
  
• Shuo Li
  Email: shuo.li@uconn.edu
  
• Wei Liu
  Email: wei.liu@uconn.edu
  
• Ying Zhu
  Email: ying.zhu@uconn.edu
  
• Yuan Niu
  Email: yuan.niu@uconn.edu
  
• Zheng Liu
  Email: zheng.liu@uconn.edu
  
• Zixi Zhao
  Email: zixi.zhao@uconn.edu
  

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2011/2012 Graduates

• Shalini Mitra
  Email: shalini.mitra@uconn.edu
  Interests: International Macroeconomics
• Parag Waknis
  Email: parag.waknis@uconn.edu
  Web: http://paragwaknis.com/
  Interests: Public Economics, Macroeconomics

2010/2011 Graduates

• Catalina Granda Carvajal
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
  Email: c2granda@gmail.com
  Interests: Macroeconomics, Public Economics
• Nicoleta Iliescu
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Xenia Matschke
  Email: nicoleta.iliescu@uconn.edu
  Interests: International Trade
• Paramita Dhar
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Stephen Ross
  Email: paramita.dhar@uconn.edu
  Interests: Real Estate Economics
• Tao Chen
  Major Advisor: Gautam Tripathi
  Email: tao.chen@uconn.edu
  Web: http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/fac-Chen.html
  Interests:
• Xiaoming Li
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Stephen Ross
  Email: xiaoming.li@uconn.edu
  CV

2009/2010 Graduates

• Gulgun Bayaz
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Kenneth Couch
  Email: gulgun.bayaz@uconn.edu
  Interests: Labor Economics, Income Inequality
• Juan-Pedro Garces
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Susan Randolph
  Email: juan-pedro.garces@uconn.edu
  Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Philosophy, Population Economics
• Lei Chen
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Subhash Ray
  Email: lei.chen@uconn.edu
  Web: http://homepages.uconn.edu/~lec02005/
  Interests: Data Envelopment Analysis, Industrial Organization, Mergers & Productivity Analysis
  CV
• Maroula Khraiche
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
  Email: maroula.khraiche@uconn.edu
  Interests: Macroeconomics
• Michael P. Stone
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Thomas Miceli
  Email: michael.p.stone@uconn.edu
  Interests: Law & Economics
• Monica Lopez-Anuarbe
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Dennis Heffley
  Email: monica.lopez-anuarbe@uconn.edu
  Interests: Health Economics, Public Economics, Aging, Econometrics, Industrial Organization
  CV
• Salini Katsaiti
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
• Zinnia Mukherjee
  Ph.D.
  Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson
  Email: zinnia.mukherjee@uconn.edu
  Web: http://zinniamukherjee.com/
  Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Law & Economics
  CV

2008/2009 Graduates

• Biplab Ghosh
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Dhamika Dharmapala
• Brian Volz
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Thomas J. Miceli
• James Boudreau
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Vicki I. Knoblauch
• Natalya Shelkova
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
• Nicholas Jolly
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Kenneth A. Couch
• Onur Celik
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Vicki I. Knoblauch

2007/2008 Graduates

• Arthur Schneider
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Susan M. Randolph
• Bingbo Hu
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Fred Carstensen
• Jennifer L. Skiba
  M.A.
  Email: jennifer.skiba@uconn.edu
  Interests: Real Estate Economics, Finance, Game Theory
• Kenneth Peterson
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian M. Zimmermann
  Email: kenneth.peterson@uconn.edu
  Interests: Monetary Policy, Financial Economics, Time-Series Analysis
• Marius Jurgilas
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian M. Zimmermann
  Email: marius.jurgilas@uconn.edu
  Website: http://www.jurgilas.net/
  
• Michal Krol
  M.A.
  Email: michal.krol@uconn.edu
  Interests:
• Nicholas Shunda
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Vicki I. Knoblauch
  Email: nicholas.shunda@uconn.edu
  Website: http://n.shunda.googlepages.com
  Interests: Auction Theory, Industrial Organization, Public Economics
  
• Philip Shaw
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
  Email: philip.shaw@uconn.edu
  Website: http://philipshaw.net/flashes/intro.html
  Interests: Economic Growth, Corruption, Econometrics
  
• Randy J. Salani
  M.A.
  Email: raymond.salani@uconn.edu
  Interests: Econometrics, Forecasting, State & National Analysis
• Rasha Ahmed
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson
  Email: rasha.ahmed@uconn.edu
  Interests: Environmental & Energy Economics, Industrial Organization, Law & Economics
• Sinan Hastorun
  M.A.
  Email: sinan.hastorun@uconn.edu
  Interests: Financial & Trade Liberalization, Emerging Markets, Economic Growth & Development
• Tsvetanka Karagyozova
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Christian M. Zimmermann
  Email: tsventanka.karagyozova@uconn.edu
  Interests: Financial Economics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics
• Zhiwei Ma
  Ph.D
  Major Advisor: Gautam Tripathi
  Email: zhiwei.2.ma@uconn.edu

2006/2007 Graduates

• Anasua Bhattacharya
  Major Advisor: Dennis R. Heffley
  
• Anupam Nanda
  Major Advisor: Stephen L. Ross
  Email: ananda@nahb.com
• Corinne McCue
  Major Advisor: Richard Langois
• Hulya Arik
  Major Advisor: Susan M. Randolph
• Rimvydas Baltaduonis
  Major Advisor: Vicki Knoblauch
  Email: rimvydas.baltaduonis@uconn.edu
  Website: http://sp.uconn.edu/~rib01002/
  
• William Pace
  Major Advisor: Dennis R. Heffley
• Xia Wang
  Major Advisor: Richard N. Langlois
• Xiaozhong Liang
  Major Advisor: Stephen L. Ross

2005/2006 Graduates

• Basab Dasgupta
  Major Advisor: Christian M. Zimmermann
  Email: bdasgupta@worldbank.org
  
• Kristin Jones
  Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson
  Email: jonesk@hartwick.edu
  
• Rodrigo Saens
  Major Advisor: Steven R. Cunningham

2004/2005 Graduates

• Akm R. Hossain
  Major Advisor: Stephen L. Ross
• Ishita Sengupta
  Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson
  Email: isengupta@nasi.org
  
• Jieling Chen
  Major Advisor: Dennis R. Heffley
• Natalia V. Smirnova
  Major Advisor: William T. Alpert
• Ping Zhang
  Major Advisor: Subhash C. Ray
• Rangan Gupta
  Major Advisor: Christian Zimmermann
  Email: rangan.gupta@up.ac.za
• Stanley McMillen
  Major Advisor: Steven R. Cunningham
• Tapas K. Ray
  Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson
  
• Yanna Wu
  Major Advisor: Subhash C. Ray

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