Students

The Graduate Center, CUNY, advisees: 

• Arka Prava Bandyopadhyay, “Reinforcement Learning for Household Finance: Designing Policy via Responsiveness“. Graduation: 2021​. First job: University of Colorado at Boulder
• Mani Bayani,  “Essays on Machine Learning Methods in Economics” . Graduation: June 2022. First job: Keystone, Economist.
• Christopher Naubert, “Essays on Macroeconomics and Finance”. Graduation: June 2025. First job: Bank of Canada, Canadian Economic Analysis Department
• Alexander Kwon,  “Predicting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions Using Machine Learning”. Graduation: June 2026.
• Yasutaka Muto. “Inflation expectation formulation within and between age groups”. Graduation: June 2027 (expected).

Member of the thesis committees (The Graduate Center, CUNY): 

• Miguel Acosta, 2020, “Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets”
• Nana Mukbaniani, 2021, “Essays on Universal Basic Income”
• Mani Bayani, 2022, “Essays on Machine Learning Methods in Economics”
• Helia Rabie, 2024, “Essays on Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance”
• Lulu Wang, 2024, “Essays in Machine Learning, Econometrics, and Computational Economics”
• Christopher Naubert, 2024, “Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking”
• Aman Desai, 2025, “Empirical Essays in Income and Educational Inequality of Opportunity”
• Swapnil Landge, 2026, “Numerical Methods for Analyzing Nonstationary Dynamic Economic Models and Their Applications”.
• Alexander Kwon, 2026, “Essays on the Economics of Aging: Structural and Machine Learning Approaches”