Selected PhD Placements
The Wisconsin PhD Program in business consistently achieves a near 100 percent placement rate. Our graduates land positions at leading research universities in the nation and the world.
Representative placements by discipline in tenure-track positions:
2025
Katie Boylen – California State University – Northridge
2024
Derek Christensen – University of Oregon (One year fellowship with Financial Accounting Standards Board)
2023
Seung Kyo Ahn – Washington State University
Julia Ariel-Rohr – DePaul University
Amanda Carlson – Merrimack College
2022
Zachary King – Fordham University
Chunzi “Mayer” Liang – University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Linette Rousseau – University of Houston
David Samuel – Singapore Management University
2021
In Gyun Baek – National University of Singapore
Mary Vernon – University of Connecticut
2020
Benjamin Osswald – University of Illinois
Clay Partridge – University of California – Davis
Kimberly Walker – Virginia Tech
Erika Wheeler – Southern Methodist University
2019
Dimitri Yatsenko – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
2018
Abe Carr – Creighton University
Zachary Kowaleski – University of Notre Dame
2017
Eric Condie – Georgia Institute of Technology
Amy Tegeler – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
2016
Matthew Kaufman – Portland State University
Kara Obermire – Oregon State University
Xiao Xiao – Peking University
2015
Amanda Convery – University of Delaware
Sean Dennis – University of Kentucky
Patrick Hurley – Northeastern University
2022
Aoxiang Yang – Peking University
2021
Ikuo Takei – Asia School of Business | MIT Sloan
2020
Kuan Liu – University of Arkansas
2025
Phillip Coyle – Postdoctoral Associate, Study Center Gertsensee
Katya Kazakova – University of Western Ontario
Julio Mereb – Sao Paulo School of Economics
Shannon Sledz – Joint Committee on Taxation
2024
Matthew Carl – Dimensional Fund Advisors
April Meehl – US Department of the Treasury Office of Financial Research
2023
Jason Choi – University of Toronto
2022
Mark Rempel – University of Toronto – Economics
2021
Francesco Celentano – HEC Lausanna
2018
Adam Spencer – University of Nottingham
2017
Kyle Dempsey – Ohio State University
2025
Shimeng Huang – Purdue University
Honglin Li – Peking University
Xiaoyu (Univa) Song – Bentley University
2024
Younsun Kim – Samsung Life Insurance
2022
Vaibhav Anand – St. John’s University
Lisa Gao – University of Waterloo
2021
Xiaochen Jing – University of Illinois
2020
Chenyuan Liu – Tsinghua University
Nii Okine – Appalachian State University
2019
Kenny Wunder – University of Alabama
2018
Anastasia Ivantsova – University of Calgary
Kyeonghee Kim – Florida State University
2017
Douglas Bujakowski – Drake University
Gee Yul Lee – Michigan State University
2025
Yongha Kwon – Oberlin College
Minah Park – Oberlin College
2024
Haifeng Wang – Hong Kong Baptist University
Yerim Sim – University of Nebraska Kearney
2023
Pamela Gu – Carroll University
Bekhzod Khoshimov – NYU Abu Dhabi
2022
Ji Hyun Kim – National University of Singapore
Yea Hee Ko – Binghamton University – SUNY
2021
Andy El-Zayaty – University of California Santa Barbara
Sangyun Kim – University of Zurich
Rakoon Piyanontalee – Penn State University
2020
Bukky Akinsanmi – University of Texas – Austin
Zhi Cao – University of Nevada – Las Vegas
2019
Seo-Young Byun – Ball State University
2018
Shannon Younger – Texas Christian University
2017
Joe Raffiee-Shira – University of Southern California
Tiffany Trzebiatowski – University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2016
Paul Davis – Cornell University
Jie “Jasmine” Feng – Rutgers University
2025
Suyeon Jung – Colorado State University
Yutian (Carol) Liu – Data Scientist in Research at Google
2024
Wonsuk Jung – University of Cincinnati
Sriniketh Vijayaraghavan – Texas A&M
Nitisha Tomar – Bayes Business School, City University of London
2022
Jiyeon Hong – George Mason University
Sean Melessa – Penn State University
Srinivas Tunuguntla – Duke University
Kaiyang Wu – University of Nevada Las Vegas
2020
Anil Isisag – Emlyon Business School
Zoe Lu – Tulane University
Rusty Stough – University of Maine
2019
Ingrid Koch – University of North Carolina
Ankita Kumar – Bucknell University
Bowen Ruan – University of Iowa
Min Tian – Ohio State University
2018
Meredith Thomas – Florida State University
2016
Andrea Luangrath – University of Iowa
2025
Yumeng Miao – University of Texas at Arlington
2022
Shihe Pan – Tianjin University
2020
Mohamad Soltani – University of Alberta
2018
Jungwon Kuem – University of Albany-SUNY
2016
Keehyung Kim – Chinese University of Hong Kong
2025
Congyan Han – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Da Li – Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati
2024
Shengwei Guo – University of Hong Kong