People

Affiliated Faculty

Michael Woodford

Michael Woodford

John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University

Areas of Interest: Endogenous Allocation of Attention, Dynamic Models of Evidence Accumulation and Choice, Statistical Inference as a Source of Behavioral Biases

Mark Dean

Mark Dean

Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience and Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental

Hassan Afrouzi

Hassan Afrouzi

Associate Professor of Economics (without tenure), Columbia University

Areas of Interest: Expectation Formation, Endogenous Allocation of Attention, and the Macroeconomic Implications of Imperfect Information

Affiliated Researchers

Giulia Mezzadri

Giulia Mezzadri

Post Doctoral Research Scholar

Jiang Mao

Jiang Mao

Post Doctoral Research Scholar

Ph.D. Students

Patricio Martin Goldstein

Patricio Martin Goldstein

PhD Candidate, Economics

pmg2146@columbia.edu
Zhi Hao Lim

Zhi Hao Lim

PhD Candidate, Economics

zl2969@columbia.edu
Tianling Luo

Tianling Luo

PhD Candidate, Economics

tl3078@columbia.edu
Ricardo Pommer

Ricardo Pommer

PhD Candidate, Economics

rap2194@columbia.edu
Shuhua Si

Shuhua Si

PhD candidate, Economics

ss5580@columbia.edu
Hanyao Zhang

Hanyao Zhang

PhD Candidate, Economics

hanyao.zhang@columbia.edu

Alumni

Former Post Doctoral Research Scholars

  • Arthur Prat-Carrabin – Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University
  • Brandon Ashinoff – Data Scientist at Tetricus Labs
  • Mel Win Khaw – Post Doctoral Fellow at Duke University

Former Ph.D. Students

  • Lucas de Lara – 2025 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton
  • Edward Peter Shore – 2024 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales
  • Susannah Scanlan – 2024 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Capital Fund Management
  • Shin Oblander – 2024 Ph.D. in Marketing. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
  • Yeji Sung – 2023 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado – 2023 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Royal Holloway University of London
  • Guy Aridor – 2022 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Kellogg School of Management
  • Silvio Ravaioli – 2022 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Cornerstone Research
  • Teresa Esteban-Casanelles – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: J-Pal Governance Initiative in 2021/King's College starting in 2022
  • Duarte Goncalves – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: University College London
  • Dilip Ravindran – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at Berlin School of Economics
  • Evan Friedman – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: University of Essex
  • Han Huynh – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Bates White
  • RC Lim – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Antai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Oskar Zorrilla – 2019 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: United States Naval Academy
  • Nate Neligh – 2018 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at Chapman University (now University of Tennessee)
  • Ambuj Dewan – 2017 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Southern California
  • Valentin Somma – 2017 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Boston Consulting Group
  • Pablo Egana del Sol – 2016 Ph.D. in Sustainable Development. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at MIT

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Fahad Algifari – School of General Studies 2023. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Sarah Wang – Columbia College 2024. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Justinas Grigaitis – School of General Studies 2019. Placement: NERA Economic Consulting
  • Ziang Li – Visiting Student 2016-2017; Pre-doctoral Researcher 2017-2018. Placement: Ph.D. program at Princeton University
  • Shambhavi Tiwari – Columbia College 2018. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at Stanford University
  • Luis Sanchez – Columbia College 2017. Placement: Ph.D. program at Cornell University
  • Adriano Fernandes – Columbia College 2016. Placement: Ph.D. program at Harvard University
  • Omeed Maghzian – Columbia College 2016. Placement: Ph.D. program at Harvard University