Ph.D. Programs at Heinz College
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Recent Best Paper Awards From Our Faculty
Amelia Haviland and Dan Nagin — received Editor’s Choice recognition for their paper, “Changes in Crime Rates during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in the journal Statistics and Public Policy.
Akshaya Jha — 2024 Hicks-Tinbergen Award, given to the author of the best article in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Edson Severnini — Outstanding Publication from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Lowell Taylor — National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Research Award for his paper, "Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans," published in the American Economic Review.
Amanda Coston — IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Best Paper.
Wenbin Zhou — Took first place at the YinzOR Poster Competition for his paper on decision-making in public health.
Alessandro Acquisti — Management Science, Best Paper
Runshan Fu — INFORMS Information Systems Society’s Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award, winner; INFORMS Society for Marketing Science’s Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition, Winner.
Akshaya Jha — Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Editor's Choice.
Shihan Li — International Network for Social Network Analysis, Best Student Paper of the Year
Peter Zhang — 2022 INFORMS Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition, Winner
Alessandro Acquisti — Management Science, Best Paper
George Chen — AAAI Workshop on AI for Behavior Change, Best Paper
Akshaya Jha — United States Association for Energy Economics, Young Professional Research Award and Best Paper
Ramayya Krishnan & Beibei Li — Information Systems Research, Best Paper Finalist
Rema Padman — Association of Information Systems, SIGHealth section, Best Paper
Alessandro Acquisti — Information Systems Research, Best Paper
Leman Akoglu — SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Best Paper
George Chen — INFORMS Data Mining and Decisions Analytics Workshop, Best paper (theoretical track)
Beibei Li — International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Best Paper
Beibei Li — Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Best Paper
Ananya Sen — Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Best Paper
Zhe Zhang — ACM, Best Doctoral Dissertation Runner-Up
Alessandro Acquisti — Management Information Systems Quarterly, Best Paper
Leman Akoglu — ECML PKDD, Best Paper
Martin Gaynor — National Institute of Health Care Management Research, Best Paper
Recent Ph.D. Accolades
David Adler was selected as a recipient of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics Graduate Fellowship.
Nate Breg was selected to receive one of the Center for Machine Learning and Health 2020 Fellowships in Digital Health.
Maria Caballero was selected to participate in the Western Economic Association International’s Graduate Student Workshop, held at the association's 95th Annual Conference.
William Herlands was named a finalist for the Schmidt Science Fellows.
Mikaela Meyer has been selected for the American Statistical Association’s 2020 Gertrude Cox Scholarship Award.
Ph.D. Programs
Ph.D. in Information Systems & Management
Gain a deep understanding of the technical and organizational aspects of information systems.
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management
Apply a rigorous scientific approach to social, organizational, economic, and management problems in an increasingly connected world.
Joint Ph.D. Programs
Heinz College offers joint Public Policy Ph.D. programs in cooperation with other CMU departments.