Meet our Current Ph.D. Students
Sudip Adhikari
Research interests: International Trade, Food and Health, and Causal Analysis
Dissertation Chairs: Jason Grant, George Davis
Anticipated graduation year: 2026
Email: sudip21@vt.edu
Anna Carroll
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Environmental Economics
Advisor: Zhenshan Chen
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Email: annacarroll@vt.edu
Anne Carroll
Research interests: Development Economics, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, and Natural Disaster Impact-Based Forecasting
Advisor: Elinor Benami
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Email: annedb20@vt.edu
Angana Chatterjee
Research interests: International Development Economics, Food and Health Economics, Applied Econometrics
Advisor: Le Wang
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Email: anganac@vt.edu
Pragati Dahal
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Food and Health Economics, Labor Economics
Advisor: Le Wang
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Awasar Ghimire
Research interests: Production and Farm Economics, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics, Agricultural Policy
Advisor: Shourish Chakravarty
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Email: gawasar@vt.edu
Ajit Khanal
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Dissertation Chair: Jason Grant
Anticipated graduation year: 2026
Email: ajitk@vt.edu
Bheom-Seok Kim
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Food and Health Economics
Dissertation Chair: Xi He
Anticipated graduation year: 2027
Email: bskim89@vt.edu
Deepak Kumar
Research interests: Development and Environmental Economics, Micro-econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta
Anticipated graduation year: 2026
Email: deepak21@vt.edu
Kendyl Lewis
Research interests: Food and Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Advisor: John Bovay
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Email: kendyl@vt.edu
Yi-Tien Liu
Research interests: Environmental and Energy Economics; Applied Econometrics
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Email: ytliu@vt.edu
Matthew Mair
Research interests: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Valuation, Econometrics
Advisor: Klaus Moeltner
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Email: mairmc@vt.edu
William McWilliams
Research interests: International Trade and Development and Rural and Regional Development
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
2024 Farm Foundation Agricultural Scholar
Email: wnm007@vt.edu
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Sareth Moy
Research interests: Environment and Natural Resource Economics, Food and Health Economics, Development
Advisor: Michael Cary
Anticipated graduation year: 2030
Email: sarethm@vt.edu
Minhye Oh
Research interests: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics
Advisor: Klaus Moeltner
Anticipated graduation year: 2030
Email: minhyeoh@vt.edu
Renu Ojha
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Food and Health
Email: renu21@vt.edu
Tao Qi
Research interests: International Trade, Food and Health Economics, Development Economics
Dissertation Chair: John Bovay
Anticipated graduation year: 2027
Email: taoqi@vt.edu
Maguette Sembene
Research interests: Rural and Regional Development, International Development, and Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Bradford Mills
Email: maguette@vt.edu
Duong Phuc Ta
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Machine Learning
Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Email: duongta@vt.edu
Mawuena Tome
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Advisor: Jason Grant
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Email: mawuenatome@vt.edu
Yifan Wang
Research interests: Labor and Family Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Food and Health Economics
Dissertation Chairs: Chanit'a Holmes and Chunbei Wang
Anticipated graduation year: 2027
Email: eefwang@vt.edu
Fei Xue
Research interests: International Trade, Applied Econometrics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Advisor: Jason Grant
Anticipated graduation year: 2029
Email: xfei@vt.edu
