Alumni

If you were affiliated with CURA while you were completing your studies at Ohio State and are not listed here, please contact us so that we can add you to our list.

• Katrin Anacker (City and Regional Planning) - Associate Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University
• Shanshan Cai (Geography) - Retail Risk Modeling & Analytics at BMO Financial Group
• Jake Carr (Geography) – Associate Director of Research at Moody’s Analytics
• Ho-Seop Cha (Geography) - Assistant Professor of Geography at Park University
• Nidia Merino Chavez (Anthropology)
• Peter Chen (Geography) - Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Connecticut
• David (Wei) Chen (Geography) - VP, Sr Data Scientist, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Majid Dadgar (Engineering) - Assistant Professor of Business Analytics & Information Systems at University of San Francisco 
• Varun Ranganathan Dhanvanth (Computer Science and Engineering) – Software Engineer at Facebook
• Robert Dietz (Economics) - Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Economics and Housing Policy for the National Association of Home Builders
• Shaun Fontanella (Geography) -  GIS Programmer in the Department of Administration and Planning at the Ohio State University
• Tony Grubesic (Geography) - Associate Dean for Research & Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin 
• Meng Guo (Geography) - Risk Analyst II at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Miti Gupta (Geography)
• Mark Horner (Geography) - Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Geography at Florida State University
• Young Jaegal (Geography) - Samsung South Korea
• Luksamee Jeawetchasil (Geography) - Business Shareholder & Managing Director for Tropical Botanica in Bangkok, Thailand
• Yongkang Jing (Geography) – Developer (Intern) at Volvo Cars
• Hyun Kim (Geography) - Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Kamyoung Kim (Geography) - now Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University
• Tae-Kyung Kim (City and Regional Planning) - now Researcher at Gyeonggi Development Institute
• Saravana Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering) – Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
• Gunhak Lee (Geography) - now Assistant Professor at Seoul National University
• David Lipsetz (Sociology and City and Regional Planning) - President & Chief Executive Officer of Housing Assistance Council
• Jinhuyng Lee (Geography) – Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at Western University
• Chunyu Liu (Geography) – Pursuing a M.A in Climate and Society at Columbia University
• Siddharth Mathiazhagan (Computer Science and Engineering) – Software Development Engineer at Amazon
• Tim Matisziw (Geography) - now Associate Professor at the University of Missouri
• Brett Morris (City and Regional Planning) - Associate Planner at Burton Planning Services
• Kaushik Mani (Computer Science and Engineering) – Software Developer II at Oracle(OCI)
• Jeff Olson  (Geography) - now Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater
• Kejing Peng (Geography) - now at Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
• Wonseok Seo (City & Regional Planning) - now Assistant Professor at Chung-Ang University (Korea)
• Madhuri Sharma (Geography) - now Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UT-Knoxville
• Diane Snediker (Geography) - Geographer at the US Census Bureau
• Ying Song (Geography) – Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at University of Minnesota
• Nicole Stephan (Environment and Natural Resources) – GIS Analyst at Prologis
• Calvin Tribby (Geography) - Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Hong Kong
• Michael Webb (Geography) - Research Director at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina
• Hu Wei (Geography) - now Director of Analytics & Research at Travelers Insurance
• Rachael Woldoff (Sociology) - now Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University
• Hye-Jin Yoon (Geography) - now Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Bo Zhao (Geography) – Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington