Economics and Computation

Postdoctoral researchers at MSR participate in seminars and the intellectual life of the lab without corporate work responsibilities. Postdocs stay in Microsoft for one or two years and they have opportunities to access Microsoft data, e.g. on online advertising auctions, Xbox use, web browsing, or employee behavior. Postdocs are recruited in the standard economics job market cycle through JOE. We have a strong record of recruiting postdocs who then go on as successful researchers.

The application for 2026 postdoctoral researchers is on the AEA JOE (opens in new tab).

Below are the postdocs by the year they joined and their initial job placement afterwards.

Current postdoctoral researchers

• Carolyn Tsao (opens in new tab) (2025)
• Yifan Wu (opens in new tab) (2025)
• Tao Lin (opens in new tab) (2025)
• Lindsey Raymond (opens in new tab) (2024)

Past postdoctoral researchers

• Evan Soltas (opens in new tab) (Princeton University, 2024)
• Clayton Thomas (opens in new tab) (Yale University, 2023)
• Thi Mai Anh Nguyen (opens in new tab) (New York University, 2023)
• Haoge Chang (opens in new tab) (Columbia University, 2023)
• Amanda Dahlstrand (opens in new tab) (University of Zurich, 2022)
• Ashesh Rambachan (opens in new tab) (MIT, 2022)
• Leon Musolff (opens in new tab) (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2022)
• Yiding Feng (opens in new tab) (University of Chicago, 2021)
• Bar Light (opens in new tab) (Tel Aviv University’s School of Mathematics, 2021)

• Diego Jiménez Hernández (opens in new tab) (Chicago Federal Reserve, 2021)
• Ian Ball (opens in new tab) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
• Mert Demirer (opens in new tab) (MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020)
• Evan K. Rose (opens in new tab) (University of Chicago, 2020)
• Sydnee Caldwell (opens in new tab)(UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, 2019)
• Rupert Freeman (opens in new tab) (Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, 2019)
• Yannai Gonczarowski  (opens in new tab)(Harvard University, 2019)
• Bo Waggoner (opens in new tab)(University of Colorado, Boulder, 2019)
• Nika Haghtalab (opens in new tab) (Cornell University, 2018)
• Natalia Rigol (opens in new tab) (Harvard Business School, 2018)
• Jann Spiess (opens in new tab) (Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2018)
• Steven Wu (opens in new tab) (University of Minnesota, 2018)
• Peter Hull (opens in new tab) (University of Chicago, 2017)
• Christos Tzamos (opens in new tab) (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017)
• James Wright (opens in new tab) (University of Alberta, 2017)
• Jie Bai (opens in new tab) (Harvard Kennedy School, 2016)
• Annie Liang (opens in new tab) (University of Pennsylvania, 2016)
• Peng Shi (opens in new tab) (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, 2016)
• Etan Green (opens in new tab) (The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 2015)
• Josh Mollner (opens in new tab) (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, 2015)
• Daniel Russo (opens in new tab) (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2015)
• Ricardo Perez-Truglia (opens in new tab) (UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2014)
• Gautam Rao (opens in new tab) (Harvard University, 2014)
• Vasilis Syrgkanis (opens in new tab) (Microsoft Research New England, 2014)
• Hu Fu (opens in new tab) (California Institute of Technology, 2013)
• Nikolai Gravin (opens in new tab) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
• Philipp Strack (opens in new tab) (University of California, Berkeley, 2013)
• Omer Tamuz (opens in new tab) (California Institute of Technology, 2013)
• Gabriel Carroll (opens in new tab) (Stanford University, 2012)
• Arun Chandrasekhar (opens in new tab) (Stanford University, 2012)
• Jacob Leshno (opens in new tab) (Columbia Graduate School of Business, 2012)
• Matt Elliot (opens in new tab) (California Institute of Technology, 2011)
• Brendan Lucier (Microsoft Research New England, 2011)
• Alexander Wolitzky (opens in new tab) (Stanford University, 2011)
• Kostas Bimpikis (opens in new tab) (Stanford GSB, 2010)
• M. Bumin Yenmez (opens in new tab) (Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, 2010)
• Hamid Nazerzade (opens in new tab) (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, 2009)
• Maher Said (opens in new tab) (NYU Stern School of Business, 2009)