Ph.D. Alumni Spotlights

Ozkan Eren received his Ph.D in Economics from SMU in 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside and an affiliated faculty at the Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Labor Research. Prior to joining UCR, he has held positions at the Louisiana State University, where he was awarded Tiger Athletic Foundation Excellence inteaching, and, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Ozkan’s research focuses on questions in economics of education, economics of crime, and public policy. His work has been published in journals such as American Economic Journal- Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Journal of Applied Econometrics.

Jayjit Roy received his PhD in Economics from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2010. At SMU, he was awarded a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship as well as a Teaching Fellowship. He was also a member of the winning team of the 2008 Data Mining Shootout.

Upon graduating, he joined Appalachian State University (ASU) as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at ASU with research interests in international trade policy and the relationship between trade and the environment. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Empirical Economics, Review of International Economics, Energy Economics, and Economics Letters.

Aditi Sengupta completed her Ph.D. in Economics under the supervision of Professor Santanu Roy in 2011 and joined the Department of Economics, Auburn University (Alabama) where she recently got tenured and promoted to Associate Professor. Her primary research field is environmental economics. She applies microeconomic theory and game theory to analyze how market incentives influence environmental performance of firms, with a particular focus on information structure and strategic behavior of firms. This allows her to critically examine current environmental regulations and to provide new insights into the ways in which public policy can shape market incentives to promote green technological change and environmentally sustainable practices among firms. She has recently started working on the economics of water and frequently collaborates with civil, environmental, and computer engineers.