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

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 and Le Wang

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

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

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

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

Xiaoyi Zhao

Research interests: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

Advisor: Le Wang

Anticipated graduation year: 2028

Email: xiaoyiz@vt.edu