PhD Job Market Candidates

This page contains a list of the Stevens Doctoral Program's current job market candidates.

For our Economics candidates, please email Malaina Brown, Eric Budish, and Matt Notowidigdo. For our Finance and Joint Program in Financial Economics candidates, please email Stefan Nagel. Please contact Malaina Brown for all other job market candidates. 

Interested in recruiting our PhD candidates? We are happy to share relevant opportunities across sectors with our students, either on a recruiter’s behalf or by providing contact information to reach student directly. If you would like to share an advert and/or organize a recruitment event with our program, please email our office at phd@chicagobooth.edu.

We also invite you to review job market candidates at the University of 黑料传送门’s .

You can find candidates on the job market by area: Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Economics, Finance, Joint Program in Financial Economics, Management Science and Operations Management, and Marketing. Note that candidates for the 2026-2027 cycle will be added to this page on a rolling basis. 

You can find full details about recent and past PhD student Career Outcomes on our site. 

Accounting

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Behavioral Science

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Joint Program in Psychology and Business

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Yena Kim

Job Market Paper: "Difficult Conversations as Self-Control Conflicts"
Dissertation Committee: Emma Levine (Co-Chair); Howard Nusbaum (Co-Chair), University of 黑料传送门 Psychology Department; Ayelet Fishbach; Shereen Chaudhry; Tristan Botelho, Yale University
Research Interests: Conversations, Conflict Management, Personal Change 


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Yena Kim

Econometrics and Statistics Candidates

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Jacy Anthis (ad hoc Joint Program in Sociology and Business)

Job Market Paper: "Digital Minds: Human-Computer Interaction in the Era of Transformative Intelligence"
Dissertation Committee: Byron Aragam (Co-Chair); James Evans, University of 黑料传送门 Department of Sociology (Co-Chair); Bernard Koch, University of 黑料传送门 Department of Sociology; Nicholas Polson
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, AI Agents, AI Safety, Responsible AI, Trustworthy AI

   
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Jacy Anthis (ad hoc Joint Program in Sociology and Business)

Economics

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Finance

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Joint Program in Financial Economics

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Management Science and Operations Management

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Farbod Ekbatani

Job Market Paper: "Non-Exclusive Notifications for Ride-Hailing at Lyft"
Research Interests: Online Resource Allocation, Marketplace Matching, and Platform Market Design
Dissertation Committee: Rene Caldentey (Chair); Rad Niazadeh (Chair); Jacob Leshno; Gustavo Vulcano, New York University Stern School of Business


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Farbod Ekbatani
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Tong Xie

Job Market Paper: “Speed of Intervention in Algorithmic Markets: Controlling Collusion and Stability” (see )
Dissertation Committee: Rene Caldentey (Chair)
Research Interests: Revenue Management, Algorithmic Markets, Platform Design, and Algorithmic Collusion


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Tong Xie

Marketing

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