Job Placements – Recent Graduates

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United States

Name	Grad Year	Title	Department	Institution
Jose Scott	2025	Postdoctoral Scholar	Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics	University of Southern California
Lizhong Liu	2025	Associate Policy Researcher	Housing and Urban economics	RAND Corporation
Seula (Naomi)	2025	Postdoctoral Fellow		INTERACT, Canada
Keunyoung (Eli) Lee	2025	Assistant Professor	School of Public Affairs	American University
Jaehyun Ha	2025	Assistant Professor		Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
Jeimee Estrada	2025	Postdoctoral Scholar	Rossier School of Education	University of Southern California
Jordy Coutin	2025	Assistant Professor	School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, College of Design	University of Oregon
Virat Agrawal	2025	Research Scientist (staff)	Schaeffer Center of Health Policy & Economics	University of Southern California
Clemens Pilgram	2024	Assistant Professor	Department of Landscape Architectures and Regional & Community Planning	Kansas State University
Noah Miller	2024	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy	Carnegie Mellon
Heonuk Ha	2024	Post Doc Research Fellow	Institute of Social Research	University of Michigan
Alanna Coombes	2024	Teaching Assistant Professor	Department of City and Regional Planning, Carolina Planning	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Arnab Dutta	2023	Assistant Professor	Real Estate and Construction	The University of Hong Kong
Yimin Ge	2023	Postdoctoral Fellow	Bloomberg School of Public Health	Johns Hopkins
Jaime Lopez	2023	Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning	College of Architecture	University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Gregory Randolph	2023	Assistant Professor	School of City and Regional Planning	Georgia Institute of Technology
Sean Angst	2022	Postdoctoral Scholar	Equity Research Institute	University of Southern California
Yi Chen	2022	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center	Rush University
Sushant Joshi	2022	Policy Associate	The SPHERE Institute	Acumen LLC
Kate Jun	2022	NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Department of Health Care Policy	Harvard Medical School
Yougeng Lu	2022	Postdoctoral Researcher	Natural Capital Project	Stanford University
Zakhary Mallett	2022	Strauch Postdoctoral Fellow		Cornell University
Jocelyn Poe	2022	Assistant Professor	Department of City and Regional Planning	Cornell University
Manita Rao	2022	Senior Policy Advisor	Public Policy Institute	AARP
Cynthia Wilkes	2022	Associate Research Fellow	Office of Evaluation Sciences – GSA Evaluation Division	US General Services Administration
Evgeny Burinskiy	2021	Senior Associate of Research and Data Journalism		Amherst Holdings
Heejin Cho	2021	Senior Performance Analyst	Office of Data, Analysis and Performance	Texas Health and Human Services
Thai Le	2021	Postdoctoral Scholar	Equity Research Institute	University of Southern California
Frank Xu	2021	Postdoctoral Fellow	Bloomberg School of Public Health	Johns Hopkins University
Linna Zhu	2021	Research Associate	Housing Finance Policy Center	Urban Institute
Andrew Eisenlohr	2020	Acting Deputy Chief Operating Officer		University of the District of Columbia
Hue-Tam Jamme	2020	Assistant Professor	School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning	Arizona State University
Madison Rae Swayne	2020	Assistant Professor	School of Public Affairs	San Diego State University
Soledad De Gregorio	2020	Postdoctorate Scholar	Center for Social Innovation	University of Southern California
Zeewan Lee	2020	Assistant Professor	School of Public Policy	National University of Singapore
Yolanda Zhu	2020	Postdoctorate Research Fellow	Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR)	Tufts Medical Center
Brian An	2019	Assistant Professor	Political Science	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jonathan Crisman	2019	Assistant Professor	Public and Applied Humanities	University of Arizona
Nathan Hutson	2019	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	University of North Texas
Matt Miller	2018	Postdoctoral Fellow	PennDesign	University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Orlando	2018	Assistant Professor	College of Business Administration	Cal Poly Pomona
Seva Rodnyansky	2018	Postdoctoral Fellow	Goldman School of Public Policy Berkeley Institute for Young Americans	University of California, Berkeley
Johanna Thunell	2018	Postdoctoral Fellow	The Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics	University of Southern California
Bingbing Wang	2018	Assistant Professor	Finance	California State University, Los Angeles
Lee White	2018	Postdoctoral Fellow	School of Environment and Natural Sciences	The Ohio State University
Jack Yuan	2018	Postdoctoral Fellow	Department of City and Regional Planning	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Arthur Acolin	2017	Assistant Professor	College of Built Environments	University of Washington
Sanggyun Kang	2017	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions and Dollars	University of Texas at Arlington
Hyojung Lee	2017	Postdoctoral Fellow	Joint Center for Housing Studies	Harvard University
Thomas Malone	2017	Postdoctoral Fellow	Graduate School of Design	Harvard University
Thomas Malone	2017	Visiting Professor	School of City and Regional Planning	Georgia Institute of Technology
Xize Wang	2017	Postdoctoral Fellow	Institute of Urban and Regional Development	University of California, Berkeley
Matt Young	2017	Assistant Professor	Public Administration and International Affairs	Syracuse University
Sarah Axeen	2016	Assistant Professor of Research	Emergency Medicine	Keck School of Medicine of USC
Sarah Mawhorter	2016	Visiting Scholar	Visiting Scholar	Syracuse University
Sarah Mawhorter	2016	Postdoctoral Fellow	Terner Center for Housing	University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Reina	2016	Assistant Professor	PennDesign	University of Pennsylvania
Ray Calnan	2015	Assistant Professor of Real Estate	Department of Business Law, Nazarian College of Business and Economics	California State University, Northridge
Sandip Chakrabarti	2015	Assistant Professor	Department of Planning and Urban Studies	University of New Orleans
Denise Payan	2015	Assistant Professor	School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts	University of California, Merced
Weijie Wang	2015	Assistant Professor	Department of Public Administration	The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Jennifer Connolly	2014	Assistant Professor	Department of Political Science	University of Miami
Bryce Lowery	2014	Assistant Professor	College of Architecture, Division of Regional and City Planning	University of Oklahoma
Dyana Mason	2014	Assistant Professor	Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management	University of Oregon
So Hee Jeon	2013	Assistant Professor	Department of Political Science and Public Administration	Central Michigan University
Cheongsin Kim	2013	Visiting Assistant Professor	Department of Public Policy and Administration	Boise State University
Fynwinn Prager	2013	Assistant Professor	Department of Public Administration	California State University, Dominguez Hills
Stephanie Frank	2013	Assistant Professor of Urban Studies	Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design	University of Missouri, Kansas City
Noah Dormady	2012	Assistant Professor	John Glenn School of Public Affairs	Ohio State University
Laurie Kaye	2012	Post Doctorate	ERB Post Doctorate Fellow in Sustainability	University of Michigan
Ellen Shiau	2012	Assistant Professor	Political Science	California State University, Los Angeles
Pengyu Zhu	2011	Assistant Professor	Department of Urban Planning	Boise State University
Lingqian “Ivy” Hu	2010	Assistant Professor	School of Architecture and Urban Planning	University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Ramzi Farhat	2010	Assistant Professor	Urban and Regional Planning	California State Polytechnic University at Pomona
Jiangping Zhou	2010	Assistant Professor	Department of Community and Regional Planning	Iowa State University
Jiangping Zhou	2010	Assistant Professor	Department of Community and Regional Planning	Iowa State University
Yang “Cathy” Liu	2009	Assistant Professor	Public Policy and Management	Georgia State University
Xudong An	2007	Associate Professor	College of Business Administration	San Diego State University
Ileana Apostol	2007	Assistant Professor	Urban and Regional Planning	California State Polytechnic University at Pomona
Thomas Bryer	2007	Assistant Professor	College of Health and Public Affairs	University of Central Florida
Thomas Bryer	2007	Assistant Professor	College of Health and Public Affairs	University of Central Florida
Jill Cannon	2007	Policy Researcher		RAND Corporation
Jiyoung Park	2007	Assistant Professor	School of Architecture and Urban Planning	The State University of New York at Buffalo
Lili Wang	2007	Associate Professor	Community Resources/Development	Arizona State University
Bumsoo Lee	2007	Assistant Professor	Urban and Regional Planning	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bin Chen	2006	Assistant Professor	School of Public Affairs	Baruch College – City University of New York
Ashwani Vasishth	2006	Assistant Professor	Urban Studies and Planning	California State University, Northridge
Kyu-Nahm Jun	2006	Assistant Professor	Political Science	Wayne State University
Jane Arnold Lincove	2005	Assistant Professor	Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs	University of Texas, Austin
Zhou Yu	2005	Associate Professor	Family and Consumer Studies	University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Hyunsun Choi	2004	Assistant Professor	Political Science and Public Administration	University of North Florida
Tara Clapp	2003	Assistant Professor	Community and Regional Planning	Iowa State University
Sukumar Ganapati	2003	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	Florida International University
Ajay Garde	2003	Associate Professor	Planning, Policy, and Design	University of California, Irvine
Matthew Hale	2002	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	Seton Hall University
Stacy Harwood	2002	Associate Professor	Urban and Regional Planning	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

International

Name	Grad Year	Title	Department	Institution
Zeewan Lee	2020	Assistant Professor	School of Public Policy	National University of Singapore
Julia Harten	2020	Assistant Professor	School of City and Regional Planning	University of British Columbia
Maria Francesca Piazzoni	2019	Assistant Professor	Landscape and Urban Design	University of Liverpool
Yusun Cho	2018	Research Professor	Institute of Governance Design	Korea University
Bo Wen	2018	Assistant Professor	Department of Public Policy	City University of Hong Kong
Hui Li	2017	Assistant Professor	Department of Politics and Public Administration	University of Hong Kong
Ryan Merrill	2017	Postdoctoral Fellow	Sustainability and Innovation	Singapore Management University
Eun Jin Shin	2017	Assistant Professor	Urban Studies	Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Andy Hong	2016	Lead Urban Health Scientist	George Institute for Global Health	University of Oxford
Felicity Chan	2013	Assistant Professor	School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Nanyang Technical University (NTU) of Singapore
Sylvia He	2012	Assistant Professor	Department of Geography and Resource Management	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wai Hang Yee	2012	Assistant Professor	Lee Kuan School of Public Policy	National University of Singapore
Yiming Wang	2011	Assistant Professor	Urban Planning	Cardiff University, UK
Kwan Ok Lee	2011	Assistant Professor	Department of Real Estate	National University of Singapore
Lanlan Wang	2007	Assistant Professor	Academy of Public Finance and Public Policy	Chinese Central University of Finance and Economics
Tito Alejandro Alegria Olabazal	2006	Professor	Urban and Environment Studies	El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Francisco G. Delfin	2005	Assistant Professor	National College of Public Administration and Governance	University of the Philippines – Diliman
Joon Hyoung Lim	2005	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	Korea University – College of Political Science and Economics
Raphael Pizarro	2005	Assistant Professor	Planning	University of Sydney, Australia
Donghwan An	2003	Associate Professor	Agricultural Economics and Rural Development	Seoul National University, Korea
Seongkil Cho	2001	Assistant Professor	Geoinfomatics	University of Seoul, Korea

Select Ph.D. Placements prior to 2000

Name	Grad Year	Title	Department	Institution
Chao Guo	2003	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	Arizona State University
Qisheng Pan	2003	Associate Professor	Urban Planning and Environmental Policy	Texas Southern University
Chandrasekhar Commuri	2002	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	California State University, Bakersfield
Keon-Hyung Lee	2002	Assistant Professor	Public Affairs and Administration	Western Michigan University
Feng Deng	2000	Assistant Professor	Real Estate	National University of Singapore
Iris Baxter	2000	Assistant Professor	Public Administration	California State University, Dominguez Hills
James Forsher	2000	Assistant Professor	Communications	California State University, Hayward
Chyi-Lu Jang	2000	Associate Professor	Political Economy	National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Mahyar Arefi	1999	Associate Professor	Planning	University of Cincinnati
Devajyoti Deka	1999	Visiting Assistant Professor	Planning	New School University
Amer A. Moustafa	1999	Associate Dean and Associate Professor	Architecture	American University of Sharjah, UAE
Ching-Ping Tang	1998	Professor	Political Science	National ChengChi University
Aseem Inam	1997	Assistant Professor	Urban Planning	University of Michigan
SeongWoo Lee	1997	Professor	Agricultural Economics and Rural Development	Seoul National University
Chang-Hee Christine Bae	1994	Associate Professor	Urban Planning and Design	University of Washington
Lois Takahashi	1992	Professor and Department Chair	Urban Planning and Asian American Studies	University of California, Los Angeles
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris	1988	Professor and Vice Dean	Urban and Regional Planning	University of California, Los Angeles
Yong-duck Jung	1981	Professor	Public Administration	Seoul National University
Jennifer Brinkerhoff		Associate Professor	Public Administration and International Affairs	George Washington University