Placement
World-renowned faculty, unparalleled resources, individualized mentoring combine to produce graduates who are highly sought by the best academic institutions, research centers, and enterprises across the world.
We prepare you to become an intellectual leader. The primary goal of the Texas McCombs Ph.D. program is to prepare students for exceptional academic careers. Over the last five years, McCombs alumni in the following disciplines have gone on to excel at:
ACCOUNTING
| Abhi Ramchandani | 2023 | University of Hawai'i |
| Anthony Welsch | 2023 | University of Chicago - Booth |
| Laura Kettell | 2023 | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Cassie Mangold | 2022 | FASB (post doc); University of Illinois (2023) |
| Jesse Chan | 2022 | Boston University |
| Ryan Hess | 2021 | Stanford University (post doc); Oklahoma State University |
| Ryan Ballestero | 2021 | Kent State University |
| Dan Rimkus | 2021 | University of Florida |
| Shannon Garavaglia | 2020 | FASB (post doc); University of Pittsburgh |
| Jakob Infuehr | 2019 | University of Southern Denmark |
| Antonis Kartapanis | 2019 | Texas A&M University |
| Kristen Valentine | 2019 | University of Georgia |
| Colin Koutney | 2018 | George Mason University |
| Zheng Leitter | 2018 | Nanyang Technological University |
| Brian Monsen | 2018 | The Ohio State University |
| Xinyu Zhang | 2018 | Cornell University |
| Jeanmarie Lord | 2017 | University of Montana |
| Ben Van Landuyt | 2017 | University of Arizona |
| Shannon Chen | 2017 | University of Arizona |
| Prasart Jongjaroenkamol | 2017 | Singapore Management University |
| Ying Huang | 2017 | University of Texas - Dallas |
| Daehyun Kim | 2016 | University of Toronto |
| Kathleen Powers | 2016 | University of Tennessee |
| Christopher Yust | 2016 | Texas A&M University |
FINANCE
| Alex Priest | 2023 | University of Rochester |
| Iman Dolatabadi | 2022 | Cornerstone Research |
| Tim Park | 2022 | Analysis Group |
| Jonathan Serrano | 2022 | Brex |
| David Xiaoyu Xu | 2022 | Southern Methodist University |
| Lee Seltzer | 2021 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York City |
| Jangwoo Lee | 2021 | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Xuewei (Erica) Jiang | 2020 | University of Southern California |
| Garrett Schaller | 2020 | Colorado State University |
| Gregory Weitzner | 2020 | McGill University |
| Xiang Kang | 2020 | JP Morgan Chase |
| Shuo Liu | 2019 | City University of Hong Kong |
| Amin Shams Moorkani | 2019 | Ohio State University |
| Avishai Schiff | 2019 | Cornerstone Research |
| Jacelly Cespedes | 2018 | University of Minnesota |
| Qifei Zhu | 2018 | Nanyang Technological University |
| Zack Liu | 2017 | University of Houston |
| Adam Winegar | 2017 | Norwegian Business School |
| Sophia Yue Sun | 2017 | AQR Capital Management |
| Parth Venkat | 2017 | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Mark Jansen | 2016 | University of Utah |
| Carlos Parra | 2016 | ITAM |
| Ben Miao Zhang | 2016 | University of Southern California |
INFORMATION, RISK, AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
| Hale Erkan | 2023 | Arizona State University |
| Wanxue Dong | 2023 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Zijian (Jacob) Zeng | 2022 | Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Jingyao Huang | 2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City |
| Paola Martin | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business |
| Vasundhara | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business |
| Haoyuan Liu | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University |
| Alek Dimitriev | 2022 | Google, Software Engineer |
| Rohit Arora | 2022 | Qontigo, Quant Researcher |
| Junjie "Henry" Qian | 2021 | ByteDance |
| Cenying "Tracy" Yang | 2021 | City University of Hong Kong |
| Tan Wang | 2021 | Expedia Group, Machine Learning Scientist |
| Aditya Karanam | 2021 | National University of Singapore |
| Paul Cronin | 2020 | Lead Data Analyst, The Home Depot |
| Parshuram Hotkar | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business |
| Haris Krijestorac | 2020 | Assistant Professor, HEC Paris |
| Xiaofan Li | 2020 | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
| Yixuan Liu | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Purdue University |
| Quan Zhang | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
| Yuxin Zhang | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Wayne State University |
| Jared Fisher | 2019 | Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley |
| Sebastian Souyris | 2019 | Postdoc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Long Zhao | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Department of Analytics and Operations, National University of Singapore |
| Shi Ying Lim | 2018 | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
| Vishwakant Malladi | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business |
| Chinmoy Mohapatra | 2018 | Operations Research and Analytics, BNSF Railways |
| David Puelz | 2018 | Postdoc, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Abhishek Roy | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Temple University |
| Changseung Yoo | 2018 | Assistant Professor, McGill University |
| Emre Yucel | 2018 | Data Insights Analyst, HomeAway |
| Samuel Blazek | 2017 | Two Six Technologies, Director of Research & Development |
| Yanzhen Chen | 2017 | Assistant Professor, HKUST |
| Gorkem Turgut "G.T." Ozer | 2017 | University of Maryland, College Park |
MANAGEMENT
| Temitope Oladimeji | 2023 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
| Wonbin Sohn | 2023 | University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
| Kinde Wubneh | 2022 | Northeastern University |
| Ed Shardlow | 2022 | West Virginia University |
| Eugene Pyun | 2022 | Fordham University |
| Jake Jo | 2021 | Emory University |
| Sae Lee | 2020 | China Europe International Business School |
| Andrea C. Marquez | 2020 | University of Texas, San Antonio |
| Benjamin Dow | 2019 | Washington University |
| Natalie Longmire | 2019 | Tulane University |
| Julie Sharek | 2019 | University of Central Florida |
| Santosh Srinivas | 2019 | HEC Paris |
| Wei Yang | 2019 | George Mason University |
| Suho Han | 2018 | Syracuse University |
| Niranjan Janardhanan | 2018 | London School of Economics |
| Seung-Hwan Jeong | 2018 | Georgia State University |
| Yurianna Kimmons | 2018 | Oklahoma State University |
| Christina Kyprianou | 2016 | Clemson University |
MARKETING
| Andreas Kraft | 2023 | University of Chicago - Booth |
| Max Alberhasky | 2023 | California State University - Long Beach |
| Tushmit Hasan | 2023 | Indiana University Bloomington (Visiting) |
| Tito Luciano Hermes Grillo | 2022 | University of Alberta |
| Gunes Bilisiler | 2021 | Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Jianqing Zheng | 2021 | |
| Xinying Hao | 2019 | University of Arizona |
| Nandini Romani | 2019 | Texas A&M University |
| Jerry Jisang Han | 2018 | University of Technology Sydney |
| Zhuping Liu | 2016 | Baruch College, City University of New York |
| Niket K. Jindal | 2015 | Kelley School of Business Indiana University |
| Richard Schaefer | 2015 | Rutgers University |
| Szu-chi Huang | 2013 | Stanford University |
ARE YOU READY TO CHANGE THE WORLD?
The Texas McCombs Doctoral Program is seeking individuals who are interested in transforming the global marketplace. Are you one of these future thought leaders?