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Below the first cohorts of graduates from the Business Data Science research master program


Graduates from the Business Data Science research master program

Diego Dabed Sitnisky

Utrecht University

 

Diego graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title is: 'Is Rosie Really Riveting? Measuring occupation classification bias in the 1940 US Census.' . Field: Economics.

 

Diego is now working as a PhD student in Labour Economics at Utrecht University under the supervision of Anna Salomons (Utrecht University), Meike Morren (Vrije Universiteit) and Emilie Rademakers (Utrecht University).

Floris Holstege

University of Amsterdam

 

Floris graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Making Neural Networks Insensitive Towards Spurious Concepts'.  Field: Data Science.

 

Floris is now working as a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam.

Roger de Jong

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Roger graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'To Webroom or Not: That’s the Question'. Field: Supply chain analytics.

 

Roger is now working as a PhD student at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and his LinkedIn page can be found here.

HyeJin Kim

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

HyeJin graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Explaining negative responses to brand activism: Authenticity and Emotional Arousal'. Field: Marketing.

Chao Liang

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Chao graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Retrieving ESG Exclusion Level Information from ETF Methodology Books'. Field: Data Science.

Jihao Li

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Jihao graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Is vaccination the cure to the systemic risk?'. Field: Finance.

Xiang Li

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Xiang graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title: 'Does Limited Liability Stimulate or Stifle Innovation: Evidence from the US Bankruptcy Act of 1898.' . Field: Quantitative Finance

 

Xiang Li is now working as a PhD student at the Erasmus School of Economics, supervised by Professor Peter Koudijs

Markus Mueller

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Markus graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Leakage in Adversarial Debiasing as a Consequence of a Multi-Directional Bias in Weight Space'. Field: Data Science.

 

Markus is now working as a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Yuchen Ning

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Yuchen graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title is: 'Multi-Polygenic Index Approach for Breast Cancer Prediction'. Field: Management Science.

 

Yuchen is now working as a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, supervised by Professor Philipp Koellinger.

Yuchou Peng

University of Hong Kong

 

Yuchou graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Do ESG Ratings Deliver on Their Promises? Evidence from the U.S. Stock Market.'.  Field: Finance.

 

Yuchou is now working as a PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. Yuchou's personal page can be found here.

Bob Rombach

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Bob graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title is: 'Data Aggregation in Multi-Armed Bandits'. Field: Management Science. 

 

Bob is now working as a PhD student at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, under the supervision of Professor Gui Liberali, Dr Aurélie Lemmens and Xi Chen.

Paul Stroet

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Paul graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title: 'Predicting Personality Scores from Parliamentary Speeches.' . Field: Management Science. 

 

Paul is now working as a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Professor Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Professor Svetlana Khapova

 

Paul's academic website can be found here and his LinkedIn profile can be found here.

Stephanie van der Veen

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Stephanie graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'The Association between Human Readability versus Machine Readability and Retail Investor Trading Behaviour'. Field: Accounting.

 

Stephanie is now working as a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam. See Stephanies LinkedIn profile here.

 

Dingli Wu

Leuven University (Belgium)

 

Dingli graduated from the program in 2021. Thesis title: 'Community Seeding: Utilize the Hidden Information in Network Structure.' . Field: Management Science.

 

Dingli is now working as a PhD student at Leuven University (Belgium). See Dingli's LinkedIn profile here

Jing Xian

Swiss Finance Institute (Léman, Switzerland)

 

Jing graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: 'Limited Liability and Manufacturing: Evidence from Homestead Exemption Laws in the 19th-century U.S.'. Field: Finance.

 

Jing is now working as a PhD student at Swiss Finance Institute Leman campus.