Yu Jin graduated from ISU with a Phd in economics in May 2012. He has accepted a position as assistant professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, in the School of Economics, Shanghai. The new position will start in September, and his research focus will be on financial economics and macroeconomics.

Hang Qian has graduated from ISU with a PhD in economics in May 2012. He has accepted a position with MathWorks, a company that produces the MATLAB software. He will develop new features in their econometric modeling tools, and maintain their econometric toolbox software.