Liew Fama-Miller Fellowships and the Yiran Fan award are given to PhD students in the Chicago Booth finance program and the Joint Program in Financial Economics based on merit, overall performance, or seminar papers. The Center also awards one finance or joint program PhD student the Fama-Miller Research Professional Development Fellowship.
Meet this year's Liew Fama-Miller PhD Fellowship Recipients
Hrishikesh Relekar
Finance PhD Program
Hrishikesh Relekar
Yijing Ren
Finance PhD Program
Yijing RenThis year’s Yiran Fan Award Recipient
Jacob Hartwig
Joint Program in Financial Economics
Jacob Hartwig
Tanvi Jindal
Joint Program in Financial Economics
Tanvi Jindal
Ken Miyahara
Joint Program in Financial Economics
Ken Miyahara2025-26
Liew Fama-Miller Award
Rahul Chauhan, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Isaac (Max) Gillet, Finance PhD Program
Jacob Hartwig, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Sean Tibay, Finance PhD Program
Yifan Wang, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Yiran Fan Award
Laurenz De Rosa, Joint Program in Financial Economics
2024-25
Liew Fama-Miller Award
Laurenz De Rosa, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Jacob Hartwig, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Yifan Wang, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Yiran Fan Award
Monica Barbosa, Joint Program in Financial Economics
2023-24
Liew Fama-Miller Award
Jacob Hartwig, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Monica Barbosa, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Judy Hui Yue, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Yiran Fan Award
Filippo Cavaleri, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Joanna Harris, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Jessica Li, Finance PhD
2022-23
Filippo Cavaleri, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Bianca He, Finance PhD student
Jessica Li, Finance PhD student
2021-22
Aditya Chaudhry, Finance PhD student
Sangmin Simon Oh, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Judy Hui Yue, Finance PhD student
2020-21
Aditya Chaudhry, Finance PhD student
Yiran Fan, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Joanna Harris, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Young Soo Jang, Finance PhD student
Yang Su, Finance PhD student
Nishant Vats, Finance PhD student
2019-20
Yiran Fan, Joint Program in Financial Economics
John Heilbron, Finance PhD student
Federico Mainardi, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Benjamin Marrow, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Kelly Posenau, Finance PhD student
Yang Su
Blair Vorsatz, Finance PhD student
2018-19
Ehsan Azarmsa, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Gursharan Bhue, Finance PhD student
Jane (Jian) Li, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Sangmin Simon Oh, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Kelly Posenau, Finance PhD student
2017-18
Gursharan Bhue, Finance PhD student
2016-17
David Finer, Finance PhD student
Stefano Pegoraro, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, Finance PhD student
2015-16
Mike Barnett, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Greg Buchak, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Carter Davis, Finance PhD student
Yiyao Wang, Joint Program in Financial Economics
2014-15
Ben Charoenwong, Finance PhD student
Willem van Vliet, Joint Program in Financial Economics
2013-14
Huan (Colin) Jiang, Finance PhD student
2012-13
Paymon Khorrami, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Hyun Soo Doh, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Tarik Umar, Finance PhD student
Willem van Vliet, Joint Program in Financial Economics
Weiting Tony Zhang, Joint Program in Financial Economics
2011-12
Alex Zentefis, Finance PhD student