Meet our Ph.D. Job Market Candidates
Thank you for visiting the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics placement page.
Its purpose is to give interested institutions a preview of our Ph.D. candidates available for employment. The following candidates are currently on the job market.
Deepak Kumar
Research interests: Development and Environmental Economics, Micro-econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta
Email: deepak21@vt.edu
Renu Ojha
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Aquaculture Economics, and Food and Health
Job market paper: Techno-Economic Assessment of Advanced Technology Adoption in U.S. Shellfish Farming
Professional webpage
Dissertation Chair: Jonathan van Senten
Email: renu21@vt.edu
Yuanyuan Wen
Research interests:
Environmental and natural resource economics, applied econometrics, climate change, environmental policy, agricultural production
Job market paper: Social and ecological impacts of China’s grain for Green Program
Professional webpage | Curriculum vitae
Email: yuanyuanw@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
Graduates Fall 2025 and has secured employment
Yoonjung Lee
Research interests: Impact evaluation, nutrition and health, food and health
Job market paper: Impacts of fortified rice on children's outcomes in Cambodia
Professional webpage | Curriculum vitae
Email: yoonjunglee@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta and John Bovay
