2023 Graduate Fellowship RecipientS
Mengxiao Fang was born in China and went to Rutgers University in New Jersey for her undergrad.
At Rutgers, she double majored in Economics and Statistics/Mathematics. During the
four years of studying, she was interested in Economics and hoped to do more profound
research, which led her to pursue a PhD at SBU. As of now, her research interest is
Applied Microeconomics.
2022 Graduate Fellowship RecipientS
Amina Sidki was raised in Morocco. She earned a master's degree in finance from ENCG Kenitra and an MBA from ESCP Europe in Paris. She has over 10 years of experience in corporate finance and management consulting. During this time, she conducted studies on organizational performance management. Amina's research interests lie in industrial organizations, game theory, and spatial econometrics. Outside of her professional life, she is a mother of two and enjoys cycling.
2021 Graduate Fellowship RecipientS
Dana Golden is a first-year economics PhD student whose research interests focus mainly on the
intersection between game theoretical analysis of multi-agent systems, applied data
analysis, and the tech sector within economics. Dana originated in Georgia, went
to Georgia Tech for undergrad and an MS in economics. During college, Dana worked
as an accountant for the Defense Department, as an athletic tutor for numerous mathematical
and social scientific subjects, and as a graduate teaching assistant for a philosophy
class. Following her MS in economics, she moved to Kansas City where she worked for
the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service as an economist and published
the oil crops outlook report and associated data product as well as the season average
price data product, and state exports trade data product. While at the USDA, she also
taught courses on programming and data analysis using SQL, R, and Python and wrote
and presented papers and posters on price forecasting using agricultural futures and
the usage of natural language processing to generate outlook reports and research
papers in economics. During her free time, she enjoys writing, reading, standup comedy,
programming, and playing and designing board games. She happily reports that that
last year she hit the milestone of 120+ books in a single year.
Shafira Widjaja was born in Columbia, South Carolina but grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. Although
she holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, she has always been interested in studying Economics. Shafira took her
MA in Economics at UT Austin where she decided to study further and pursue a PhD at
SBU. She is interested in deepening her knowledge and doing research in Game Theory
and Industrial Organization.
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