Fernando Ochoa

Fernando Ochoa

Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale (incoming Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins, 2027)
  • Former PhD student (JM 2026)
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Joint papers with Christopher

About

Fernando, who goes by Nano, completed his PhD as Christopher’s student. On the JM 2026 cohort, he placed at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor of Economics with a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale’s Cowles Foundation and the Center for Algorithms, Data Science and Markets in the interim. His research is in empirical market design and urban economics.

Background

  • PhD, NYU (2027) · advisor: Daniel Waldinger; Christopher Conlon; Giulia Brancaccio; Christopher Neilson
  • PhD in Economics, New York University (2026)
  • Job market 2026 — placement at Johns Hopkins University (start deferred)
  • 2026–2027, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Cowles Foundation and the Center for Algorithms, Data Science and Markets
  • 2027–onwards, Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
  • 2027: Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins

Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.

Joint work with Christopher