Job Market Candidates
Placement Directors
| SS Option Representative | SDN Option Representative |
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Professor Marina Agranov Email: [email protected] Tel: (626) 395-3559 |
Professor Dean Mobbs Email: [email protected] Tel: (626) 395-4028 |
Placement Coordinator
Division Option Manager, HSS Undergraduate Options, and Social Science Graduate Programs
Tel: (626) 395-4206
Fax: (626) 405-9841
Below is information on the candidates who are on the job market in the current academic year. Click on a candidate's name to link to that person's profile with more detailed information. For placement history of graduates of the HSS PhD programs, please see the alumni listings page.
Graduate Student
Paulo Matos
PhD Candidate in Social Sciences (Political Economy)
Thesis Committee: Michael Gibilisco (Advisor), Alexander Hirsch, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Maria Micaela Sviatchi (Princeton)
Job Market Paper: "We Have Your Back? Discretion in Police Discipline and Peer Effects on Officer Misconduct"
Email: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Researchers
Sumit Goel (PhD '23, Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
Thesis Committee: Federico Echenique (Advisor), Thomas Palfrey, Omer Tamuz, Kota Saito
Job Market Paper: "The effect of competition in contests: A unifying approach"
Email: [email protected]
Kexin Feng (PhD '25, Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Associate, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Thesis Committee: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Advisor), Michael Gibilisco, Pawel Janas, Tracy Dennison
Job Market Paper: "Foreign Investment and the Long Road to Development: Knowledge Diffusion in Early Twentieth-Century China"
Email: [email protected]
Jeffrey Zeidel (PhD '23, Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Behavioral Institutional Design, NYU Abu Dhabi
Job Market Paper: "Luck and Learning in Games"
Email: [email protected]




