SES Graduates
graduates’ jobs – July 2025
SES’s first cohort started in 2016, and already emerging alumni have produced important work and are pursuing impactful careers:
- in industry
- current graduates’ industry job titles include: data scientist, research scientist, quantitative researcher
- graduates have started their own companies
- we also expect future graduates will pursue careers in consultancies and work in a variety of other sectors
- in the public sector
- graduates work in regulatory agencies
- we expect future graduates will also work in research labs
- in academia
- current graduates’ faculty appointments include atmospheric science, management, operations research, public health
- we also expect future graduates will be appointed in engineering and other interdisciplinary fields
Dr. Sirui Li
Learning-Guided Optimization for Intelligent Mobility Systems – Microsoft Research
Dr. Arnab Sarker
Higher-Order Interactions in Social Systems – Regrello
Dr. Bernardo García Bulle Bueno
Creating Links: Building an Educational Platform to Ask Relevant Questions in Education –
Dr. Marie-Laure Charpignon
Evaluating the Effects of Pharmaceutical Interventions, Social Policies, and Exogeneous Shocks on People’s Health and Behavior –Kaiser Permanente, Postdoc
Dr. Leon Yao
Causal Inference under Privacy Constraints
Dr. Andreas Haupt
The Economic Engineering of Personalized Experiences – Stanford U, Postdoc
Dr. Hussein Mozannar Training Human-AI Teams – Microsoft Research
Dr. Erin Walk
Leveraging Cross-Platform Social Media Data to Study Conflict and Polarization – UPenn, Postdoc
Dr. Cate Heine Leveraging Geospatial Data to Understand Social Mixing in
Cities – UCL, Research Fellow
Dr. Amir Tohidi Kalorazi Exploring Behavioral Patterns: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Habit Formation and Political Persuasion with Statistical Analysis – UPenn, Postdoc
Dr. Manon Revel Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
Prof. Yunzong Xu Data-Driven Dynamic Decision Making: Algorithms, Structures, and Complexity Analysis – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Yan Jin Networks, Polarization, and Voting: Models for Information Aggregation in Social Settings
Dr. Yi ‘Alicia’ Sun Algorithmic Fairness in Sequential Decision Making – Meta
Dr. Mengying ‘Mandy’ Wu Local official and polluter accountability in China’s environmental inspections – Harvard, Postdoc
Dr. Max Vilgalys Essays on Measuring Climate Change Damages and Adaptation – NYC OMB
Dr. Chin-Chia Hsu Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks – Google
Prof. Hanwei Li Estimation and Optimization in Online Marketplaces – CityU Hong Kong
Dr. Paolo Bertolotti Inference and Diffusion in Networks – ModernFi
Dr. Eaman Jahani Network Effects on Outcomes and Unequal Distribution of Resources – U Maryland
Dr. Qi Yang Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks – startup co-founder
Prof. Yuan Yuan Understanding and Reshaping Social Networks with Advanced Computational Techniques – UC Davis
Prof. Minghao Qiu Impacts of Energy and Environmental Policies on Air Quality: Bridging Observational Data, Statistical, and Atmospheric Models – SUNY Stony Brook
Dr. Bomin Jiang Identification and Robustness in Central Banking and Supply Chain – Citadel
Prof. Manxi Wu Information, Learning and Incentive Design for Urban Transportation Networks – UC Berkley
Prof. Jinglong Zhao Data Driven Operations: From Algorithm Development to Experimental Design – BU
Dr. Rui Sun Online learning and optimization in operations management – Amazon
Dr. Ian Schneider Market design opportunities for an evolving power system – Google
