Nilesh is currently assisting Professors Ralph Koijen, Taisiya Sikorskaya and George Constantinides.
Nilesh has earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from BMS College of Engineering and a master's degree in computer science from Northeastern University and. His research interests include leveraging natural language processing and machine learning to address problems in finance.
Aria is currently assisting Professors Francesca Bastianello, Ralph Koijen, Yueran Ma, and Pietro Veronesi.
Aria has a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in accounting from Beijing Institute of Technology and a double degree in economics from Peking University, and a MSc dual degree from London School of Economics and Peking University. Her current research interests include macroeconomics, behavioral finance, and intersection between corporate finance and asset pricing.
Aria Liu
Austin is currently assisting Professors Ralph Koijen and Leland Bybee.
Austin has a bachelor's degree in finance from Penn State and a master's degree in asset management from Yale University. His research interests include natural language processing, asset pricing, and behavioral finance.
Austin Liu
Faisal is currently assisting Professors Lars Hansen, Yueran Ma and Raghuram Rajan.
Faisal earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include behavioral macroeconomics and finance, asset pricing, macro-finance, firm behavior, machine learning methods in econometrics, and network theory in macroeconomics.
Faisal Quaiyyum
Hrishikesh is currently assisting Professors Leland Bybee, Steven Kaplan, Raghuram Rajan and Anthony Lee Zhang.
Hrishikesh earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His research interests include employing novel mathematical and econometric techniques to solve problems in Economics and Finance.
Hrishikesh Relekar
Jinrui is currently assisting Professors Francesca Bastianello, Lubos Pastor and Taisiya Sikorskaya.
Jinrui earned a Bachelor of Finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her research interests include asset pricing and macro finance.
Jinrui Wang
Xi is currently assisting Professors Emanuele Colonnelli, Amir Sufi and Michael Weber.
Xi holds bachelor's degrees in Mathematical Economics and Statistics from the University of Birmingham and in Finance from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. She also earned an M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Her research interests focus on behavioral finance, household finance, and development economics.
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Peize is currently assisting Professors Anil Kashyap, Eric Zwick, and Julia Selgrad.
Peize holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University, and a Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA Anderson. His research interests include asset pricing, monetary economics, and public policy.
Peize Zhang
2023-2025
Assisted: Professors George Constantinides, Lars Hansen and Quentin Vandeweyer
Bachelor of Economics in Finance from Peking University Guanghua School of Management
M.A. in Economics from University of Chicago.
PhD in Economics at New York University
2024-2025
Assisted: Professors Amir Sufi and Julia Selgrad.
BSc and MSc in Finance from Bocconi University.
PhD in Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
2023-2025
Assisted: Professors Emanuele Colonnelli, Raghuram Rajan, Amir Sufi and Constantine Yannelis.
BA in Economics and Business Administration and MA in Economics from Universidad del Rosario
PhD in Finance at London School of Economics
2023-2025
Assisted: Professors Emanuele Colonnelli, Ralph Koijen, Raghuram Rajan and Amir Sufi.
BA, Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD in Finance at Columbia Business School
2023-2025
Assisted: Professors Niels Gormsen, Yueran Ma, Stefan Nagel and Anthony Lee Zhang.
BSc in Statistics and Economics from the University of Chicago
PhD in Accounting at MIT Sloan School of Management
2022-2024
Assisted: Professors Niels Gormsen, Ralph Koijen, Lubos Pastor and Anthony Lee Zhang
Bachelor’s degree in quantitative finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
PhD in Finance at Columbia Business School.
2022-2024
Assisted: Professors Steve Kaplan, Anil Kashyap, Michael Weber, and Eric Zwick
BA in Economics and a minor in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.
PhD in Finance at Rice University
2022-2024
Assisted: Professors George Constantinides, Amir Sufi and Constantine Yannelis
Bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Finance and Mathematics from University of Sydney, and a Master of Finance degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.
PhD in Finance at Duke Fuqua School of Business.
2022-2024
Assisted: Zhiguo He, Yueran Ma, and Constantine Yannelis
B.B.A. in finance with a minor in statistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
M.A. in public policy with certificate in research methods from the University of Chicago
PhD in Finance at the London School of Business.
2022-2023
Assisted: Francesca Bastianello, Emanuele Colonnelli, George Constantinides and Wenxin Du
Bachelor鈥檚 degree (cum laude) in Economics from the University of Bergamo
Master of Science in Economics and management from the University of Bocconi
Currently a research officer at the University of Zurich
2020-2023
Assisted: Anil Kashyap, Lubos Pastor, Quentin Vandeweyer and Constantine Yannelis
BSc in Economics and Business from LUISS University
MSc in International Finance from HEC Paris
Received the Booth Finance PhD offer, sadly she passed away on March 3, 2023. We will forever remember her in our hearts.
View Livia's memorial page
2021-2023
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Niels Gormsen, Elisabeth Kempf, Raghuram Rajan and Michael Weber
BSc. in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata
MSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science
PhD Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2021-2023
Assisted: Lars Hansen, Jessica Jeffers, Raghuram Rajan and Constantine Yannelis
Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong
MA in Economics from the University of Chicago
PhD in Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
2021-2023
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Zhiguo He, Yueran Ma and Ralph Koijen
BA in Economics from Nankai University
MSc in Finance and Economics from LSE
PhD in Finance at Yale School of Management
2021-2023
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Stefan Nagel, Scott Nelson and Anthony Lee Zhang
Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nankai University
Master’s degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in Economics from the University of Chicago
PhD in Finance at USC Marshall
2020-2022
Assisted: Elisabeth Kempf, Ralph Koijen and Amir Sufi
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim
PhD in the joint program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2020-2022
Assisted: Wenxin Du, Zhiguo He, Elisabeth Kempf, Yueran Ma and Eric Zwick
BA in Economics, a BEng in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University
MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago
PhD in Finance at Yale School of Management
2020-2022
Assisted: George Constantinides, Stefan Nagel, Scott Nelson, Anthony Zhang and Eric Zwick
BA in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science
PhD in Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
2019-2022
Assisted: Jessica Jeffers, Steve Kaplan, Michael Weber and Eric Zwick
BA in Economics (with honors) and Statistics from UC Berkeley
PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago
2019-2021
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Scott Nelson, Amir Sufi, Anthony Lee Zhang and Eric Zwick
BA in Economics with honors from the University of Delhi
Master’s degree in Economics from the Paris School of Economics
PhD in Finance at Yale School of Management
2019-2021
Assisted: Elisabeth Kempf, Raghuram Rajan, Emanuele Colonnelli, Pascal Noel and Erick Zwick
BA in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi
Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy
PhD in Economics at Columbia University
2019-2021
Assisted: Lars Hansen, Anil Kashyap, Yueran Ma, Michael Weber and Anthony Lee Zhang
BA in Economics from the University of St.Gallen
MSc in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics
PhD in Economics at New York University
2018-2020
Assisted: Elisabeth Kempf, Yueran Ma, Lubos Pastor, Scott Nelson, Amir Sufi, Michael Weber and Eric Zwick
BA in economics and a BA in statistical sciences with honor from Cornell University
PhD in Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2018-2020
Assisted: Lars Hansen, Ralph Koijen, Elisabeth Kempf and Pietro Veronesi
B.B.A. Business Administration and Financial Economics from Seoul National University
PhD in Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management
2018-2020
Assisted: George Constantinides, Zhiguo He, Jessica Jeffers, Elisabeth Kempf and Stefan Nagel
BS in Computer Science and Finance with honor from New York University Shanghai
Master of Finance from MIT
PhD in Finance at Yale School of Management
2018-2020
Assisted: Jessica Jeffers, Anil Kashyap, Constantine Yannelis and Eric Zwick
BSc in Economics and Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
MA in Economics from Duke University
PhD in Finance at the University of Washington Foster School of Business
2017-2019
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Jessica Jeffers, Raghuram Rajan, and Michael Weber
Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering – IIT Bombay
MA, Economics – The University of Texas at Austin
PhD in Economics at Columbia University
2017-2019
Assisted: Emanuele Colonnelli, Will Cong, George Constantinides, Sam Hartzmark, and Yueran Ma
BS in Mathematics with honors and a MS in Mathematics from Brigham Young University
PhD in Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
2017-2019
Assisted: Wenxin Du, Lars Hansen, Anil Kashyap, Elisabeth Kempf, Pascal Noel and Eric Zwick
BS in Finance and Statistics from New York University Stern School of Business
PhD in Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
2017-2018
Assisted: Anil Kashyap, Elisabeth Kempf, Jessica Jeffers and Eric Zwick
BA in economics and mathematics from Brown University
PhD in Economics at the University of Oxford
2016-2018
Assisted: Lubos Pastor, Pietro Veronesi, George Constantinides, Michael Weber, Eric Zwick and Jessica Jeffers
BA in Mathematical Economics from University of Pennsylvania
PhD in Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Assistant Professor of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis
2016-2018
Assisted: Zhiguo He, Lars Hansen, Michael Weber, Bryan Kelly and Eric Zwick
BSc in Economics with honor, a BSc in Statistics, and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Washington
PhD in Finance at the University of California Berkeley.
Assistant Professor in Economics and Finance at University of College London, Department of Economics and School of Management
2016-2017
Assisted Tarek Hassan
BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Maastricht and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
PhD in Economics at Boston University
2015-2017
Assisted: George Constantinides, Will Cong, Zhiguo He, Kelly Shue and Eric Zwick
Bachelor of Economics in Finance from Peking University
MPhil in Finance from Cambridge
MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago.
PhD in the joint program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
View Yiran's memorial page
2015-2017
Assisted: Will Cong, Elisabeth Kempf, Lubos Pastor and Jacopo Ponticelli
Engineering Degree from Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Marne-la-Vallee, France
Master’s degree in Economics from Paris School of Economics, Paris.
PhD in Finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015-2017
Assisted: Brian Kelly and Amit Seru
AB in Mechanical Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
MSME in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from University of Chicago.
PhD in Finance program at Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
2014-2016
Assisted: Lubos Pastor, Amit Seru, Michael Weber and Eric Zwick
AB in economics and a minor in Music from the University of Chicago and an MSc in economics from University College London.
PhD in finance at Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
Assistant Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management
2014-2016
Assisted: Brian Kelly and Pietro Veronesi
BSc in economics and finance from University of Salerno
MSc in economics and finance from University of Rome,
PhD in money and finance from University of Rome “Tor Vergata," Rome.
BlackRock in the Financial Modelling Group (FMG).
2014-2016
Assisted: Tarek Hassan
BSc in mathematics from Fudan University
MSc in statistics from the University of Chicago.
PhD in the joint program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
2014-2015
Assisted: Bryan Kelly, Kelly Shue and Eric Zwick
BA in economics from the University of Chicago
MS in Statistics from the University of Michigan
PhD in Financial Economics at Yale School of Management
Assistant professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
2013-2014
Assisted: Tarek Hassan
Bachelor of Economics in Financial Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathesmatics
MS in Financial Mathematics at University of Chicago
PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago
2012-2013
BBA in business administration (minor in statistics)
BA in education at Korea University
MS in statistics at University of Chicago (2012)
Assisted: Amit Seru, Ralph Koijen and Margarita Tsoutsoura
PhD in Finance from London Business School.
Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Melbourne.
