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PhD Placements

Phd Students, School of Management graduation

Jindal School PhDs work at the world’s top universities.

Take the academic path that adjusts with your career aspirations. The different PhD concentrations focus on the latest research and hands-on training while fostering professional relationships. Our world renowned faculty offers a robust experience with a scientific approach to problem solving.

Selected Placements by Area are below.

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International Management Studies

Selected Placements – International Management Studies
Year Name Placement
2021 Xiaoou Bai Georgia State University
2021 Olivier Boncoeur University of Notre Dame
2021 Miranda Welbourne Eleazar University of Iowa
2018 Ayenda Kemp Virginia Tech
2018 Xiujuan Li University of Warwick
2018 Cristina Vlas University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2016 Sergey Lebedev San Francisco State University
2014 Steve Sauerwald University of Illinois at Chicago
2013 Dane Blevins Binghamton University, SUNY
2011 Hao Chen Tsinghua University
2011 Huangche Weng City University of Hong Kong

Accounting Concentration

Selected Placements – Accounting
Year Name Placement
2022 Gurvinder Sandhu Indian School of Business
2020 Devendra Kale University of Rhode Island
2020 Xiaolu Zhou Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 Zhongwen Fan University of Hong Kong
2019 Sharif Shekarchizadeh Esfahani PwC (Transfer Pricing Research Associate)
2018 Yaqin Hu McMaster University
2018 Hoyoun Kyung University of Missouri
2016 Shih-Chu Chou San Francisco State University
2016 Weiwei Wang Weber State University
2015 Koren Jo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2012 Guang Ma National University of Singapore
2011 Kenneth Zheng University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Finance Concentration

Selected Placements – Finance
Year Name Placement
2023 Jake Smith Securities and Exchange Commissions
2023 Serena Xiao Texas Tech University
2023 Jiadi Xu University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2022 Pil-Seng Lee Baylor University
2022 Yabo Zhao Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
2022 Yifan Zhu BI Norwegian Business School
2021 Sanghyun (Hugh) Kim Wilfrid Laurier University
2020 Munhee Han Texas Tech University
2020 Hui Wang Bentley University
2018 Amir Zemoodeh Citigroup (Vice President of Risk and Modeling)
2017 Lantian Liang University of Sydney
2015 Alex Holcomb The University of Texas at El Paso
2015 Paul Mason Baylor University
2014 Seong-Kyu Byun University of Mississippi
2014 Wenyun Shi Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2011 Yin Li City University of Hong Kong
2009 Jess Cornaggia Indiana University

Information Systems Concentration

Selected Placements – Information Systems
Year Name Placement
2020 Leila Hosseini Temple University
2020 Sameer Mehta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2020 Murat Tunc Tilburg University
2019 Chenzhang Bao Oklahoma State University
2019 Mingwen Yang University of Washington
2018 Manmohan Aseri Carnegie Mellon University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
2018 YeongIn Kim Virginia Commonwealth University
2018 Cheng Nie Iowa State University
2018 Danish Saifee University of Alabama
2018 Jayarajan Samuel University of Texas at Arlington
2016 Zhen Sun George Washington University
2014 Sezgin Ayabakan University of Baltimore

Marketing Concentration

Selected Placements – Marketing
Year Name Placement
2024 Soogand Alavi University of Iowa
2024 Reza Roshangarzadeh University of Washington
2023 Thyagarajan Subramanian University of Central Florida
2022 Ashutosh Bhave University of Arkansas
2020 Sriharsha Kamatham University of Manitoba
2019 Chenxi Liao Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 Bo Ram Lim University of Kansas
2018 Mina Ameri University of Pittsburgh
2017 Ryan Freling Louisiana Tech
2017 Yiyi Li University of Delaware
2017 Mohammad Zia Chapman University
2015 Aidin Tajzadeh Namin University of Idaho
2012 Marina Girju DePaul University
2009 Manish Gangwar Indian School of Business
Placements* – PhD in Management Science, Operations Management Concentration
Year Name Placement
2020 Wen Zhang Baylor University
2019 Blair Flicker University of South Carolina
2019 Harish Guda Arizona State University
2017 Yang Bo Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017 Bharadwaj Kadiyala Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2016 Ting Luo California State University, Fullerton
2015 Wei Chen University of Kansas
2014 Liying Mu University of Delaware
2011 Tharanga Rajapakshe University of Florida
2010 Mili Mehrotra University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

The placements reported here are typically the first placements. For graduates who moved out of their first placement relatively quickly, their second placement might be reported.