Current Graduate Students
Dmitry Adams
Degree Objective: M.S.Expected Completion Date: 2020
Tahir Ali
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Pratiksha Baishya
Contact: pratiksha.baishya@gmail.com
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Chris Gustafson
Previous Education: B.S. Agriculture and M.S. Agricultural Economics, Assam Agricultural University
Ahmed Chennak
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Eric Coufal
Contact: e_coufal@hotmail.com
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: December 2018
Thesis topic: Cover crop grazing (cattle)
Advisor: Dr. Jay Parsons
Previous Education: B.S. Agribusiness, Minor Entrepreneurship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Interest: Farm Management
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Katie Cumming
Contact: katiecumming18@gmail.com
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Jay Parsons
Previous Education: B.S. Agribusiness and Animal Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Interest: Risk Management
Anubrata Deka
Contact: deka.anubrata@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Previous Education: B.A in Economics (honors), University of Delhi; M.A in Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi
Advisor: Dr. Azzeddine Azzam
Areas of interest: Industrial Organization
Iyore Eronmwon
Degree Objective: M.S.Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Advisor: Dr. Cory Walters
Diya Ganguly
Contact: diya.ganguly@huskers.unl.eduDegree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Advisor: Dr. Simanti Banerjee
Previous education: M.A. in Economics, Jadavpur University; B.A. in Economics, Jadavpur University
Areas of interest: Resource and environmental economics, experimental and behavioral economics
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Zhengzheng Gao
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Taro Mieno
Previous education: B.A., Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
Areas of interest: Environmental economics, regional economics
Grant Gardner
Contact: grant.gardner@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Thesis topic: Profitability of Nitrogen Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Taro Mieno
Previous Education: B.S. Agricultural Business Management, Purdue University
Areas of interest: Farm profitability, business strategy, technological innovation
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Henriette Gitungwa
Degree Objective: Ph.D.Advisor: Dr. Chris Gustafson
Sabrina Gulab
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Malek Hammami
Contact: ahammami@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: 2021
Previous Education: M.Sc in Business Economics & Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania-Greece (MAICh)-2017; Agricultural Engineer in Rural Economics, University of Carthage- Tunis- Ecole Superieure d'Agriculture de Mograne (ESAM)- 2014
Areas of interest: Resource and environmental economics, experimental and behavioral economics, cooperatives
Hanin Hosny
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Wilman Iglesias Pinedo
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: 2021
Advisor: Dr. Lilyan Fulginiti
Taylor Kaus
Contact: taylor.kaus@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Previous Education: B.S., Agricultural Economics; Mathematics, statistics minors, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of interest: Risk, marketing, farm structure
Badri Khanal
Contact: bkhanal@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: 2021
Advisors: Dr. Taro Mieno and Dr. Karina Schoengold
Yunkyung Lee
Contact: julielee@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: 2021
Advisor: Dr. Konstantinos Giannakas
Previous Education: B.S. Kwangwoon University, M.S. Mississippi State
Areas of Interest:Food system and policy, consumer behavior
Charalampos Mavroutsikos
Contact: charalmav@yahoo.gr
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: December 2018
Dissertation Topic: On the Economics of Crop Insurance
Advisors: Dr. Konstantinos Giannakas and Dr. Cory Walters
Previous Education: M.S. Economic Theory, Athens University of Economics and Business; B.S. Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athans
Areas of Interest:Industrial organization, economic policy, risk management, agribusiness, natural resource economics
Reza Pashai
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Emmanouil Petrakis
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date:2019
Advisor: Dr. Kate Brooks
Pedro Queiroz
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Advisor: Dr. Lilyan Fulginiti
Susweta Ray
Contact: susweta.ray@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date: May 2020
Previous Education Bachelors in Agriculture from Visva-bharati University, India; Masters in Agricultural Economics from G.B.Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India
Advisor: Dr. Wes Peterson
Areas of Interest: International trade and development, industrial organization
Shane Roberts
Degree Objective: M.S.
Brooks Ronspies
Contact: brooks.ronspies@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Simanti Banerjee
Previous Education: B.S. Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, natural resource economics
Paloch Suchato
Contact: psuchato@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date:2019
Advisors: Dr. Taro Mieno and Dr. Karina Schoengold
Previous Education: B.A. Economics, Minor Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Areas of Interest: Environmental and resources economics and policy, econometrics, big data analytics, water resources management and policy
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Anne Timu
Contact: annegesare@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Expected Completion Date:2021
Advisor: Dr. Chris Gustafson
Previous Education: B.Sc, Agriculture education and extension, University of Nairobi; Msc, Agriculture and applied economics, University of Nairobi and University of Pretoria, South Africa
Areas of Interest: Rural development, food economics, risk management
Qianyu Zhang
Contact: zhan3322@d.umn.edu
Degree Objective: M.S.
Expected Completion Date:2019
Advisors: Dr. Karina Schoengold and Dr. Taro Mieno
Previous Education: B.B.B., Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
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