Real Estate Ph.D. Placements

The Real Estate doctoral graduates since 1995 are listed below by year of graduation with thesis, initial placement and thesis advisor.

Recent Placement Records

Note: Placements are within one year of graduation, and all academic placements are tenure track unless an alternate job title is provided.

Liu Ee Chia 2025

• Thesis: Essays on Environmental Risks, Credit Constraints, and Housing Markets

• Placement: National University of Singapore

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Xue Xiao 2023

• Thesis: Essays on Commercial Real Estate

• Placement: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Yifan Chen 2022

• Thesis: Essays on Housing Prices

• Placement: University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Max Valentin 2022

• Thesis: Essays on the deductibility of housing expenses

• Placement: Cornell University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose and Dr. Jiro Yoshida

Mark Thibodeau 2019

• Thesis: Mortgage Servicers and Housing Externalities

• Placement: Florida International University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Luis Lopez 2019

• Thesis: Essays on Brokers, Financial Intermediaries, and Securitized Mortgages

• Placement: University of Illinois Chicago

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Sergio Garate 2018

• Thesis: Essays on Reputation and Capital Expenditure in Real Estate

• Placement: University of Mississippi

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Thao Le 2017

• Thesis: Essays on the Role of Soft Data and Spillover Effects in Real Estate

• Placement: Georgia State University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose and Dr. Keith Crocker

Walter D'Lima 2016

• Thesis: Essays on Economic Incentives in Real Estate

• Placement: University of Notre Dame

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose and Dr. Ed Coulson

Yannan Shen 2016

• Thesis: Role of Information in the Real Estate Market: The Case of Fracking Boom

• Placement: Clemson University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

James Conklin 2014

• Thesis: Three Essays on the Subprime Mortgage Market

• Placement: Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Moussa Diop 2013

• Thesis: Real Estate, Industry Structure and Shareholder Value

• Placement: University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Sun Young Park 2012

• Thesis: Essays on Market Frictions in the Real Estate Market

• Placement: Korea Insurance Research Institute

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Xun Bian 2011

• Thesis: Information Asymmetry and Residential Mortgage Choices

• Placement: Longwood University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Brent Ambrose

Nuriddin Ikromov 2008

• Placement: California State University - Sacramento

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Abdullah Yavas

Chow Yuen Leng 2008

• Placement: National University of Singapore

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Abdullah Yavas

Zhiyi Wu 2006

• Placement: University of Alabama

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Abdullah Yavas

Yan Chang 2006

• Placement: Freddie Mac

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Abdullah Yavas

Lynne Fisher 2002

• Placement: Washington State University

• Thesis Advisor: Dr. Austin Jaffe

Roger Brown 2000

• Placement: IMOJIM Investments

Tom Geurts 1998

• Placement: California State University

Xiaohui (Shiawee) Yang 1995

• Placement: Northeastern University