Alumni Community

Ali graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: 'Key Drivers of Contractors' Mobility in the Gig Economy: A Regional Analysis'. Field: Operations Analytics.

Ali is currently employed as a data scientist at Rabobank, applying his knowledge and data analysis skills to contribute to the bank's data-driven initiatives.

See Ali's LinkedIn profile here.

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 Professor Anna Salomons (Utrecht University), Dr. Meike Morren (Vrije Universiteit) and Dr. Emilie Rademakers (Utrecht University).

Ruben graduated from the program in 2022. Thesis title: Monte Carlo Tree Search-based Optimizing Agent for SPARQL Join Order Selection.

Ruben is now working as a PhD student at the Ghent University.

Valentino graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title is: 'Regime-Switching Flexible (Quasi) Score-Driven Models: Analyzing and Forecasting Portfolio Risks through Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall'. Field is Quantitative Finance.

Valentino is currently working for ING bank as a trading quant. 

Justus graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: 'Modeling Score-Driven Time-Variation in Risk-Neutral Densities with an Application to Option Pricing'. Field: Quantitative Finance.

Justus is now working as a PhD student in Financial Econometrics at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Professor André Lucas and Dr. Anne Opschoor.

See Justus's LinkedIn profile here.

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

Roger started a PhD at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and his LinkedIn page can be found here.

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

HeJin is now working as a PhD student in Marketing at Cornell University, Johnson School of Business. 

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

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

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. 

Loek graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: Improving healthcare: integrating potential task splits into home healthcare routing and scheduling.

Loek is now working as a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Dr. Markus Leitner and Professor Wout Dullaert. In his research, Loek studies logistic planning and scheduling with synchronisation and task-splitting. 

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 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.

Zhuoyu graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: Fair active learning for personalized policies.

Zhuoyu is now working as a Quantitative Marketing PhD student at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management.

See Zhuoyu's LinkedIn profile here.

Bernhard graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: 'Grouped heterogeneity in Markov-switching panel models'. Field: Data Science.

Bernhard is now working as a PhD student at the Erasmus School of Economics, under the supervision of Professor Richard Paap and Dr. Wendun Wang. In his research, Bernhard studies nonlinear dynamics, cross-sectional structures, and nonparametric techniques in panel data econometrics.

See Bernhard's personal website here.

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

Stephanie  is now working as a PhD student at the Erasmus School of Economics. 

Caio graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: The Role of Outdegree in Seeding.

Caio is now working as a PhD student at HEC Paris.

Ana-Maria graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: 'Identification of climate disclosures in European bank reports using Large Language Models.

Ana-Maria is now working for the European Central Bank, and her LinkedIn page can be found here.

Fengtao graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: 'The Effect of Sustainable Categorization Cues on Product Consideration and Choice'.

Fengtao is now working as a PhD student at the UCL School of Management. He focuses his research on the topic quantitative marketing.

Eveline graduated from the program in 2023. Thesis title: The Impact of Short Sale Costs on Machine Learning Portfolio Allocation Models.

See Eveline's LinkedIn profile here. 

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

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

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

Yuanyuan graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'From BERT Topic Analysis to Regression Analysis: A Study on the Relationship Between ESG Themes and Corporate Characteristics in North American and European Companies.' Field: Quantitative Finance.

Yuanyuan is now working as a PhD student in the accounting department of the Erasmus School of Economics under the supervision of Michael Erkens and Ying Gan. Her research interests are: ESG accounting, machine learning and natural language processing.

Ramon graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'The Effect of Air Pollution on Healthy Purchases.'

Ramon is now working as a PhD student in the Marketing department of the Amsterdam Business School  

Tomas graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'Deep Imputation Networks vs. Mean Imputation in Tabular Learning with Missing Data.'

Longjaio graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'Breaking the Homophily Wall: Multicultural Experiences Reduce Nationality Homophily in Global Networks.'

Longjaio is working as a PhD student in Organization and Personnel Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Thao graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'Network Community Structures in Markov Influence Graphs.'

Thao is working as a PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Bernd Heidergott and Ines Lindner. Her research interests include network analysis and generative AI.

Finn graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'Novel Generative Summaries: Safer Prompts & More Insightful Market Research?'' His research master thesis develops a new method to summarize documents with LLMs.

Finn is working as a PhD student in Quantitative Marketing at the Erasmus School of Economics. 

Jason graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'Longevity-linked securities pricing.'

Jason is working as PhD student in the Section Accounting of the Amsterdam Business School. 

Irene graduated from the program in 2024. Thesis title: 'A Computational Narrative Review of career success.' Supervisor was Professor Corine Boon (UvA). 

Irene is currently working as a PhD student at the Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland, under the supervision of Professor Paavo Ritala.