Tepper School Ph.D. Students Earn Accolades
To celebrate the wins of the academic year, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University recognized the outstanding contributions of its doctoral students during the annual Student Awards Tea this spring.
Alan Montgomery, program head and professor, lead the presentation of awards.
Egon Balas Award for Best Student Paper in Operations Research/ACO
Recipient: Siyue Liu, for "Approximately Packing Dijoins via Nowhere-zero Flows”
Liu’s research interests include Combinatorial optimization, nonconvex optimization, and microeconomics theory.
The prize is given in memory of Egon Balas (1922-2019), University Professor of Industrial Administration and Applied Mathematics and the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business, who was a professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA)/Tepper School from 1967-2019. The prize has been given to students annually since 2004.
Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research to Marketing
Recipient: Flora Feng
Feng’s interests lie in the application of computer vision, generative artificial intelligence, and various machine learning techniques to marketing quandaries, leveraging the vast potential of information harbored in unstructured data.
Since 2014, this prize has been given annually to a marketing student to recognize their outstanding contributions to research in the field of Marketing. The prize was endowed by Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA, now the Tepper School of Business) Ph.D. alumnus Dipanakar and Sharmila Chakravarti.
Gerald R. Salancik Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
Recipient: Jenny Oh
Oh’s research interests include the effects of demographic composition and proportional representation of team members by gender/race on perceptual and instrumental outcomes, including third-order evaluations and status, and their implications for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace.
This fellowship was established to commemorate Gerald Salancik (1943-1996), an an American organizational theorist and the D. B. Kirr Professor of Organization at GSIA. He is best known for his work on organizational decision making and the external control of organizations.” The fellowship has been given since 1996 to recognize outstanding research in Organizational Behavior and Theory.
The Aydemir Family Prize in Memory of Rick Green
Recipient: Mingjun Sun
Sun is working in the area of empirical asset pricing. Cevdet Aydemir, the Head of Portfolio Research at Millennium Management, graduated from the Tepper School in 2005 with a Ph.D. in Finance. Rick Green (1953-2015) was an economist specializing in financial economics. He was the Cyert Chair and Professor of Financial Economics, and acted as Head of the Ph.D. program.
PNC Presidential Fellowships, 2023-2024
Recipient: Yizhen Xie
Recipient: Kerry Zhang
Xie works in financial markets and institutions, labor economics, and retirement savings. Zhang’s research interests lie in the area of corporate finance.
The PNC Presidential Fellowship, first given in 2019, is the result of an endowed gift by the PNC Foundation. The fellowships are awarded annually to two doctoral students whose career focus is on the future of financial services, with a multidisciplinary emphasis on machine learning, data analytics, finance, and marketing.
Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowships, 2023-2024
Four Tepper School doctoral students were honored for earning one year of financial support for contributing an impactful body of work to their field of research. Read about their research in the article, Tepper School Doctoral Program Celebrates Presidential Fellows.
About the Ph.D. Program at the Tepper of Business
Doctoral graduates and faculty at the Tepper School share an impressive legacy of path-breaking research and global recognition that includes nine Nobel laureates. In this small, serious-minded program, Ph.D. students benefit from close working relationships with faculty, advisors, and classmates.
There are eight focused fields of study in the doctoral program and joint Ph.D. degrees in conjunction with other world-class colleges across Carnegie Mellon University.