PhD in Decision, Risk, and Operations Placement

Recent Placement

Our recent graduates are faculty members at institutions such as Stanford, Wharton, MIT, Kellogg, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, and NYU, and also succeed in leading research and development positions in the industry.

Here is a list of placements, by year of graduation, over the past few years:

Year	Name	Placement
2022	Yue Hu	Stanford GSB
2021	Muye Wang	Two Sigma Investments
2021	Pengyu Qian	Krannert School of Management
2021	Seungki Min	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2021	Yiwen Shen	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021	Jiaqi Lu	Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019	Francisco Castro	Anderson, UCLA
2019	Pu He	Two Sigma Investments
2019	Fei Long	Kenan-Flagler, UNC Chapel Hill
2019	Zhe Liu	Imperial College Business School
2017	Wenqi Hu	Uber
2017	Dongwook Shin	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2017	Kai Yuan	Two Sigma Investments
2016	Davide Crapis	Lyft
2016	Daniel Guetta	Palantir Technologies
2016	Cinar Kilcioglu	Uber
2016	Lijian Lu	Goldman Sachs Asset Management
2016	Chen Xie	VTS, Inc
2016	John Yao	University of Miami
2015	Juan Chaneton	Celect
2015	Daniela Saban	Stanford GSB
2015	Hua Zheng	JP Morgan
2015	Yonatan Gur	Stanford GSB
2013	Caner Gocmen	Nomis Solutions
2013	Ahmet Serdar Simsek	Cornell University (Visiting faculty)
2013	Yina Lu	The Wharton School (postdoc)
2013	Sang Won Kim	Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
2013	Santiago Balseiro	Fuqua School, Duke
2012	Damla Gunes	Morgan Stanley
2012	Bar Ifrach	Stanford GSB (postdoc)
2012	Roger Lederman	IBM Watson Research
2012	Margaret Pierson	Harvard Business School (postdoc)
2012	Mehmet Saglam	Bendheim Center for Finance & Economics, Princeton
2011	Denis Saure	University of Pittsburgh
2009	Mehmet Altug	George Washington University
2009	Wei Ke	Novantas
2009	Natalia Yankovic	IESE Business School

Alumni Spotlight, Academic Placement

Daniela Saban

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Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Associate Professor

Daniela Saban is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research interests lie in the interface of operations, economics and computer science. She received her Ph.D. from the Decision, Risk, and Operations division in 2015.

Santiago Balseiro

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Columbia Business School, Associate Professor

Santiago Balseiro is an Associate Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. His primary research interests are in the area of dynamic optimization, stochastic systems and game theory with applications in revenue management and internet advertising. Professor Balseiro received his Ph.D. from the Decision, Risk, and Operations division in 2013. Before joining Columbia, he was on the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Alumni Spotlight, Industry Placements

Wei Ke

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Managing Partner, Simon-Kucher & Partners

Dr. Wei Ke is a Partner based in Simon-Kucher’s New York and Toronto offices. He currently heads the Financial Services Practice in North America and is Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the Decision, Risk, and Operations division in 2009.

Bar Ifrach

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Director of Data Science, Head of Marketplace, Uber Freight

Dr. Bar Ifrach is Director of Data Science, Head of Marketplace, at Uber Freight. He received his Ph.D. from the Decision, Risk, and Operations division in 2012. Before joining Uber Freight, he was Director of Data Science at Airbnb. Bar was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University.