UCLA Economics Research Fellows

Undergraduate Research

Board of Visitors Research Fellows: Previous Recipients

2026

Isaac Yu

Strategy and Risk Management Intern at California ISO

Matthew Cherfane

Fellow at the Rachel Carson Council

Calvin Zhang

Economics Ph.D. student at UCLA

2025

Kenny Guo

Economics Ph.D. Student at Yale University

Fonda Hu

Sales Strategy and Operations at Atlassian

Ann Zirui Zhou

Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Department of Economics

Toshihiko Hirasawa

Koki Okumura

2024

Jordan Lee

Research Analyst at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Vivian Fan

Incoming J.D. Candidate at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Darion Phan

Research Assistant at University of Michigan

2023

Tylor Wu

Wil Wygal

David Chabra

Analyst at Cornerstone Research

Shiyu Ma

Sai Priyanka Iragavarapu

Analyst at BlackRock

2022

Hao Jin

Ling Chiu

Ziqi Zhao

Economics Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University

Matthew Howell

Predoctoral Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research

2021

David Yu

Senior Research Assistant (Formerly) at Federal Reserve Board

Mingh Pan

2020

Ryan Chapman

Senior Research Analyst at The Brattle Group

George Ip

Strategy and Operations Associate at Google

Sena Ustuner

Associate at Growth Street Partners

2019

Harsh Gupta

Research Scientist (Formerly) at Providence

Caiyi (Anna) Zhang

Global Research Associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

De Wei “David” Nie

Senior Analyst at BCI

2018

Max Marczinek

Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Oslo (Ph.D. Oxford University)

Kan Yao

2017
Melody Huang

Assistant Professor Yale University (Ph.D. Statistics, UC Berkeley)

Jiwei Zhang

Yalun (Aaron) Fan

Vice President at J.P. Morgan