Meet our Ph.D. and Job Market Candidates
Meet the exemplary students that make up the Ph.D. program in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Naveen Abedin
Research interests: Food and Health, Development Economics, and Econometrics
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Sudip Adhikari
Research interests: International Trade, Applied Econometrics, Food and Health, and Causal Analysis
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Dissertation Chair: Jason Grant
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
Anukul Bhattarai
Research interests: Food and Health Economics Market Structure Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation chair: George Davis
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
Yang Cheng
Research interests: Regional and Rural Economics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, and Food & Health Economics
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Dissertation Chair: Susan Chen
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
Elizabeth Chishimba
Research interests: Agricultural Economics; Applied Econometrics; Food and the Environment; Regional and Rural Economics; and International Development and Trade.
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Dissertation Chair: Catherine Larochelle
Anticipated graduation year: Summer 2024
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Chenyang Hu "Nate"
Research interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Darrell Bosch
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
Didarul Islam
Research interests: Applied Econometrics and Food and Health Economics
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Anticipated graduation year: 2026
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Yunus Emre Karagulle
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, and Political Economy
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Dissertation chair: Jason Grant
Ajit Khanal
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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Anticipated graduation year: 2026
Bheom-Seok Kim
Research interests: Agricultural Trade and International Development and Environmental Economics
Anticipated graduation year: 2027
Deepak Kumar
Research interests: International Development and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Anubhap Gupta
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
Yoonjung Lee
Research interests: International Agricultural Development, Food and Nutrition, and Hydroponics
Dissertation Chair: John Bovay and Anubhap Gupta
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
Yanggu Li
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
William McWilliams
Research interests: International Trade and Development and Rural and Regional Development
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Anticipated graduation year: 2028
2024 Farm Foundation Agricultural Scholar
Laura Miranyi
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Food and Health, and International Development
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Anticipated graduation year: 2027
Renu Ojha
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Food and Health
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Armine Poghosyan
Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Commodity Markets, Development Economics, Remote Sensing, and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Olga Isengildina-Massa
Anticipated graduation year: Spring 2024
Tao Qi
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Health and Food, and Development Economics
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Leonard-Allen Quaye
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Development Economics, Data Science, and Agribusiness
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Dissertation Chair: Shamar Stewart
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
Maguette Sembene
Research interests: Rural and Regional Development, International Development, and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation chair: Bradford Mills
Kiseok Shin
Research interests: Food and Health, International Development and Trade, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Anticipated graduation year: Spring/Summer 2025
Kristen Swedberg
Research interests: Environmental Policy Nonmarket Valuation Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation chair: Kevin Boyle
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
Duong Phuc Ta
Research interests: Applied econometrics, Impact Assessment, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, International Development, Environmental and Natural Resources, and Agricultural and Rural Economy
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Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Yifan Wang
Research interests: Labor and Family Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Food and Health Economics
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Anticipated graduation year: 2028
Yuanyuan Wen
Research interests: Climate Change, Rural Community, Crop Production, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Geospatial Analysis
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Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
Anticipated graduation year: 2026
Yuetong Zhang
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Klaus Moeltner
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
