Graduate Job Candidates
Joseph Cummins
Placement Director
Phone: (951) 827-1582
Email: joseph.cummins@ucr.edu
Ph.D. Candidates 2024-2025
Yifei Ding
Website: https://yifeiding-ucr.github.io/
Paper: “Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity with Generated Regressors by Adversarial Training”
References: Ruoyao Shi, Tae-Hwy Lee, Weixin Yao, Meng Xu, Veronica T Sovero.
Major Fields: Causal Inference, Econometrics Theory, Machine Learning (Prediction and Causal Inference) and Applied Econometrics.
Ilsoo Han
Website: ilsoohan.weebly.com
Paper: “Educational-Specific Decompositional Effects of Skill Loss on TFP”
References: Victor Ortego-Marti, Jang-Ting Guo, Matthew Lang.
Major Fields: Macroeconomics, Search Theory, Labor Economics.
Anirudh Iyer
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aiyer/
Paper: “Dynamic Matching with Case-Based Agents”
References: Siyang Xiong, Haluk Ergin, Hiroki Nishimura.
Major Fields: Microeconomics, Matching, Market Design.
Rajveer Jat
Website: https://rajveerjat.com/
Paper: “Sufficient Instrument Filter.”
References: Tae-Hwy Lee, Marcelle Chauvet, Bharat Ramaswami, and Ruoyao Shi.
Major Fields: Econometrics, Machine Learning, Causal Inference.
Secondary Fields: Macro, Finance, Development, Empirical IO.
Nitish Kumar
Website: https://www.nitish-kumar.com/
Paper: “A Search and Matching Model of Housing and Rental Market Interactions”
References: Victor Ortego-Marti, Jang-Ting Guo, Guillaume Rocheteau, Bree Lang
Major Fields: Macroeconomics, Housing Economics, Urban Economics
Daanish Padha
Website: daanishpadha.com
Paper: “Forecasting Using Supervised Factors and Idiosyncratic Elements.”
Major Fields: Econometrics, Machine Learning
References: Tae-Hwy Lee, Ruoyao Shi, Donggyu Kim, Gloria Gonzalez Rivera, Marcelle Chauvet, and Matthew Lang.
Seeun Park
Website: seeun-park.com
Paper: Policy, Substance Abuse Treatment Access, and Overdose Deaths
References: Michael Bates, Bree Lang, Ajin Lee, and Veronica Sovero
Major Field: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Murilo Silva
Website: https://murilo-silva.com/
Paper: “Climate Disaster Risk and Stock Returns”
References: Marcelle Chauvet, Jana Grittersova, and Dongwon Lee.
Major Field: Macroeconomics, Finance, Applied Econometrics
Qichen Zhou
Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/qcz/home
Paper: Forecasting Loan Risk of Banks with Machine Learning in Main Street Lending Program
References: Marcelle Chauvet(Chair), Joseph Cummins, Jana Grittersova , Matthew Lang
Major Field: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Development Economics.