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
2025 Suyash Garg University of North Texas
2025 Jia Shen University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
2025 You-Xiang Song University of Auckland
2024 Nan Guo Chinese University of Hong Kong
2024 Shu Deng University of Mississippi
2024 Ryan Teschner City University of New York
2024 Jiyu Wang Marymount University
2023 Pavithra Balaji McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
2023 Minjung Lee St. Louis University
2023 Jianan Li Towson University
2023 Yu (Luna) Liu Stevens Institute of Technology
2022 Jung. H Kwon University of Denver
2022 Nishant Kathuria Towson University
2022 Yundong Yeo San Diego State University
2021 Jyun Kim Pusan University, Pusan South Korea
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

Finance Concentration

Selected Placements – Finance
Year Name Placement
2024 Yingdong Mao University of Sydney
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
2025 Hong Zhang University of Arizona
2025 Kai Sun University of Florida
2024 Wangsheng Zhu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2024 Si Xie George Mason University
2024 Ning Luo Virginia Commonwealth University
2024 Allen Z Grand Valley State University
2023 Yagmur Ozdemir Erasmus University
2023 Ping Tang Bentley University
2022 Haozhao Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021 Chenglong Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong
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
2025 Haokun Du University of Aukland
2024 Zihao Qu University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2024 Arun Kumar Rout University of Buffalo
2024 Goutham Takasi University of Alabama
2023 Milad Armaghan University of Houston
2023 Inki Sul University of Buffalo
2023 Chandrasekhar Manchiraju Michigan State University
2023 Lingling Shi McMaster University
2022 Zahra Mobini Georgia Tech
2022 Abdullah Gokcinar The Gap
2022 Can Kucukgul Rutgers University, Camden
2022 Duc Vu University of Michican, Flint
2021 Fariba Mamaghani Tulane University
2021 Joohyun Kim University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2021 Mehdi Farahani University of Miami
2020 Chungseung Lee SUNY Korea
2020 Jiayu Chen University of Calgary
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.