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.
Updated: May 29, 2024
![Naveen Abedin](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112292/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1702050913734.png)
Naveen Abedin
Research interests: Food and Health, Development Economics, and Econometrics
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![Sudip Adhikari](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_2040582165.img.png/1701378642080.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_792416885/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1702502364952.png)
Anukul Bhattarai
Research interests: Food and Health Economics Market Structure Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation chair: George Davis
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
![Elizabeth Chishimba](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1830273715/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1700253338609.png)
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: Fall 2024
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![Nate Hu](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_827504230/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_157420461.img.png/1700253582099.png)
Chenyang Hu "Nate"
Research interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Darrell Bosch and Wei Zhang
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
![Didarul Islam](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_975378281/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1700253620884.png)
Didarul Islam
Research interests: Applied Econometrics and Food and Health Economics
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Anticipated graduation year: 2026
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![Yunus Karagulle](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_695365802/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_1015386803.img.png/1701120094052.png)
Yunus Emre Karagulle
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, and Political Economy
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Anticipated graduation year: 2024
Dissertation chair: Jason Grant
![Ajit Khanal](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1005995502/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701120273995.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1960093408/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_1074251968.img.png/1701375306246.png)
Bheom-Seok Kim
Research interests: Agricultural Trade and International Development and Environmental Economics
Anticipated graduation year: 2027
![Deepak Kumar](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_836327893/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_30114687.img.png/1701120444678.png)
Deepak Kumar
Research interests: International Development and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
![Yoonjung Lee](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1378986387/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_30114687.img.png/1706214682598.png)
Yoonjung Lee
Research interests: International Agricultural Development, Food and Nutrition, and Hydroponics
Dissertation Chair: John Bovay and Anubhab Gupta
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
![Yanggu Li](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_705342449/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_483573000.img.png/1701378713818.png)
Yanggu Li
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
Anticipated graduation year: 2024
![William McWilliam](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_796148917/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701120502524.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1976676586/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_680443249.img.png/1701378767160.png)
Laura Miranyi
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Food and Health, and International Development
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Anticipated graduation year: 2027
![Renu Ojha](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_511754750/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_1933404351.img.png/1701378805619.png)
Renu Ojha
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Food and Health
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![Armine Poghosyan](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1800114634/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1701706656844.png)
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: Summer 2024
![Tao Qi](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_615218640/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_1596532163.img.png/1701120669543.png)
Tao Qi
Research interests: International Trade and Development, Health and Food, and Development Economics
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![Leonard-Allen Quaye](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1624228604/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701372563329.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1890435170/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_158239015.img.png/1701379132075.png)
Maguette Sembene
Research interests: Rural and Regional Development, International Development, and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation chair: Bradford Mills
![Kiseok Shin](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1652071049/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701120797300.png)
Kiseok Shin
Research interests: Food and Health, International Development and Trade, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Anticipated graduation year: Spring/Summer 2025
![Duong Phuc Ta](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1516322425/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701121064047.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_846865321/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_2108779400.img.png/1701186862111.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1896870049/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701186907996.png)
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](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_323195276/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c_1886316912.img.png/1701186948655.png)
Yuetong Zhang
Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Applied Econometrics
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Dissertation Chair: Klaus Moeltner
Anticipated graduation year: 2025
![Yixing Zheng](/content/aaec_vt_edu/en/academics/graduate/phd_students/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_634112_1400052343/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_copy_c.img.png/1701186984476.png)