Alumni Community

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).

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: 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 his 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.

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: 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. 

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.

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.

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 his 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'. Field: Accounting.

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

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: Finance.

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