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2025 Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Zhaohua Pei grew up in Canada before moving to the United States to pursue her bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in economics at Texas A&M University. After a gap year and resolution
to pursue a Ph.D. in economics, she completed a second M.S. in mathematics to further
strengthen her quantitative foundation. Now at Stony Brook University, she is actively
exploring potential areas of specialization as she begins her doctoral studies.
2023 Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Mengxiao Fang was born in China and went to Rutgers University in New Jersey for her undergraduate
studies. At Rutgers, she double-majored in Economics and Statistics/Mathematics. During
her studies, she developed a strong interest in Economics, which led her to pursue
a PhD at SBU. Her research interest is Applied Microeconomics.
Amina Sidki was raised in Morocco. She earned a master's degree in finance from ENCG Kenitra
and an MBA from ESCP Europe in Paris. She has over 10 years of experience in corporate
finance and management consulting. Amina's research interests lie in industrial organization,
game theory, and spatial econometrics. Outside of her professional life, she is a
mother of two and enjoys cycling.
2022 Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Sarah Betz joined SBU’s Economics PhD program as a fellowship student in Fall 2022. She holds
a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Prior to starting her PhD, Sarah worked at an economic consulting firm
and earned a master’s degree in Economics from Rutgers University. She is currently
focusing her research on migration and networks. Outside of academics, Sarah enjoys
exploring bookstores and hiking.
2021 Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Dana Golden is a fourth-year economics PhD student whose research interests focus on energy markets
and applied industrial organization. Her dissertation examines the impacts of expanding
transmission infrastructure on capacity investments of generators. She also has works
in progress on the impacts of input subsidies on the Chinese solar panel industry,
techno-economic analysis of HVDC, shareholder disagreement, and commodity market forecasting
using natural language processing.
Shafira Widjaja was born in Columbia, South Carolina, but grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. Although
she holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, she has always been interested
in Economics. Shafira completed her MA in Economics at UT Austin, where she decided
to pursue a PhD at SBU. She is interested in research in Game Theory and Industrial
Organization.