Smith Finance PhD Program: Current Students

Kyoung-hun Bae
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Email: kbae@rhsmith.umd.edu

Kyoung-hun joined the Smith Finance PhD Program in 2010. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree in Finance both from Seoul National University in Korea. Before joining the program at the University of Maryland, he was a doctoral student in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Industrial Organization. His current research interests include financial economics and corporate finance.

Wen Chen
Office: 3330 Van Munching Hall
Email: wenchen@rhsmith.umd.edu

Wen Chen joined the Robert H. Smith Finance PhD program in 2011. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a PhD in Physics from University of California San Diegon (UCSD). Her current research interests include Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing.

Anne Duquerroy
Office: 3330 Van Munching Hall
Email: aduquerroy@rhsmith.umd.edu

Anne Duquerroy joined the Robert H. Smith Finance PhD program in 2011. She received an MS in Management from Audencia Nantes School of Management (France) and a Master’s degree in Economics from Sciences Po Paris (France). Her current research interests include risk management, systemic risk and financial regulation. 

Xiaoyuan Hu
Office: 3330 Van Munching Hall
Email: xiaoyuanhu@rhsmith.umd.edu

Xiaoyuan Hu joined the Robert H. Smith Finance PhD program in 2011. She received a B.A. in Economics and Finance from Tsinghua University in China in July, 2011. During her undergraduate study, she attended a full-time Exchange Program in the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research interests include Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Law and Finance, and Financial Institutions.  

Nitin Kumar
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-314-9152
Email: nkumar@rhsmith.umd.edu

Nitin joined the Smith School of Business in 2006 as a PhD student in Finance. He received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kanpur, India and MS in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) - Calcutta, India. He worked for Infosys and SAP from 2002-2004. His broad areas of interest are Institutional Funds and Financial Markets. Currently he is working on agency and informational issues in mutual funds and their effect on financial markets, portfolio manager entrenchment, and risk-taking behavior of portfolio managers.

Jeongmin Lee
Email: jeongmin@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Jeongmin joined the Finance PhD Program in 2008. She was awarded a full graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship. Jeongmin got her B.S. in Mathematics from POSTECH in 2005 and MS of Management Engineering (Concentration in Finance) in 2008 from KAIST Business School, both in Korea. Her current research interests include Theoretical Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing.

Su Li
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-314-9152
Email: sli@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Su Li joined the Finance PhD program in 2007. Su was awarded a full graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship. Prior to joining to the program, he received a B.S. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in June, 2001 and a PhD in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park in August,2007. His current research interests are Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing.

Wei Li
Email: liwei@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Wei Li joined the program in 2008. Prior to Maryland, he obtained graduate and undergraduate degrees in engineering and statistics from Purdue, Tsinghua, and Zhejiang University. He is interested in both theoretical and empirical research on asset pricing and market microstructure.

Danmo Lin
Email: danlin@rhsmith.umd.edu

Prior to joining the Finance program in 2009, Danmo studied Economics at the Central University of Finance and Economics (China) and Stony Brook University. She taught undergraduate game theory and worked as the local organizer for the 18th and 19th International Game Theory Festival at Stony Brook University. Her previous research includes a paper on duopoly markets with network externalities and a quantitative analysis of dividend tax reform on welfare and investment. Her current interests focus on capital structure in corporate finance combined with an IO perspective.

Seoyeon Katie Moon
Office: 4448 Van Munching Hall
Email: kmoon@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Katie Moon joined the Finance PhD Program in 2006. She attended the Financial Engineering Program, a joint program of the School of Mathematics and the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University for her MS degree. Her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and another MS in Computer Science were from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. She has working experience as a computer programmer in a 3D Animation Company. Her current research interests include Theoretical and Empirical Corporate Finance; Corporate Investment and Restructuring, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Benjamin Munyan
Email: bmunyan@rhsmith.umd.edu

Benjamin joined the PhD program in 2009. He received dual B.S. degrees in Mathematics and in Economics from Arizona State University. There he was involved in many undergraduate research programs for the mathematical sciences - some of which were published or presented at undergraduate research conferences. His current research interests include market structure and theory, risk management, and corporate and international finance.

Olya Rachtchinine
Office: 3330 Van Munching Hall
Email: orachtchinine@rhsmith.umd.edu

Olya joined the Smith Finance PhD Program in 2011. She received a Specialist degree in Mathematics from Omsk State University in 1999 and M.S. in Finance from University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith Business School in 2011. Her current research interests include Financial Regulation and Systemic Risk. 

Anshuman Sinha
Office: 1308E Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-314-9024
Email: asinha@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Anshuman Sinha is a student of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in Mathematics. He is interested in Financial theory of Agency, Corporate Governance, International Finance and Mathematical Finance. He taught BMGT 446, an upper level undergraduate course in international finance, in Fall 2006.

Austin Starkweather
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Email: astark@umd.edu
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Prior to joining the finance PhD program, Austin Starkweather spent several years working in corporate finance, mostly focused on buy-side corporate acquisition analysis, internal financial planning and credit agreement management. Before this, he spent time in China teaching English and working with a microfinance non-profit. He completed his BA in 2004 from Princeton University, majoring in Economics and minoring in East Asian Studies and Chinese. He speaks both Spanish and Mandarin with decent proficiency, though always appreciates opportunities to improve either. His research interests include international and corporate finance.

Onur Tosun
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Email: otosun@rhsmith.umd.edu

Onur Tosun joined the Finance Department in 2008. Prior to Smith School of Business, he received an MBA degree from Bogazici University, Turkey, where he taught Statistics and Statistical Analysis courses at the Department of Management. He attended Istanbul Technical University, Turkey for his undergraduate studies, attaining a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. During his undergraduate and graduate education, Onur conducted research in the fields of logistics, marketing, and finance and participated in various international conferences. He also published one of his works with the Journal of Global Optimization. Onur was awarded a full graduate assistantship and a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship for his PhD studies at Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His current research interests include empirical corporate finance: executive compensation and capital structure.