Mini-bios

Ian Hsu is a second-year M.S. student in Management Science and Engineering, with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. In addition, Ian holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and spent some time working an e-commerce consultant at Sapient before returning to the Farm. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano, firing up his grill, and hiking.

Bobby Filipi has spent the last 5 years as a PhD student in the Economics Department and, hopefully, will graduate by the summer 2001. His fields are mathematical economics, which focuses on the use of mathematical tools in economics, and comparative institutional analysis, which studies how various institutions arise and work in the economy. His research deals with the structure of relationships among firms in Silicon Valley, and the way this special structure contributed to growth of the region. Apart from his specific academic interests, Bobby likes to read and talk about practically anything, albeit with a slight bias towards technology. He also loves music and movies. (and, yes, he is a Napster user)

Hongbin Li is a 6th year ph.d. student in economics. His fields of interests are development, the theory of firm and international economics. His dissertation is on privatization of China's state-owned enterprises. He likes swimming and playing poker.

Min Fan came from Beijing University in China with a master degree in Economics. Min worked as TA for introductory and intermediate level economic courses in Beijing. Now she's a second year phd student in Econ departmant of Stanford.

John Romley is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the economics department. His field of specialty is industrial organization, and he's focusing for now on the economics of shopping malls. He likes basketball, movies and uncrowded places.

Sue Traub. I am a second year law student. Originally from Boston, I spent my undergraduate years at Harvard, where I majored in Applied Math/Economics & played on the Varsity Softball Team as a right-fielder. After working for Fleet Bank in Boston for three years, I decided I liked West Coast weather. So I packed up and moved out to the Presidio in SF for a summer, then started at Stanford Law School in the fall of '99. My main interest is Antiturst Law, and I worked at the Federal Trade Commission this summer. I also love to play Ultimate Frisbee -- you can catch me at the pickup game at Palo Alto High School many Saturday mornings!

Jaime Calleja Alderete
Born: Sept. 7th, 1975, Mexico City, Mexico
Bachelor degree in Economics at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.
Second year Economics PhD student.
Hobbies: Guitar, Squash, swimming.
Favorite color: green.
Languages: English, Spanish and German

James Caverlee graduated from Duke University in 1996 with a degree in economics. After working two years at an economics consulting firm in Washington, DC, James came to Stanford where he is pursuing degrees in both Management Science & Engineering and Computer Science.

Niny Khor is a fourth year student in the Economics Phd program. She is from Malaysia, and specializing in economic history/development.

Ravi Singh. I'm a fifth year graduate student in the economics department. My fields of study are corporate and international finance. As an undergraduate, I studied math and economics at Northwestern University. A bit further east of there is my hometown: Glyndon, Maryland. Among other things, I enjoy music and an occasional movie.

Sabine Gounder graduated from Stanford last fall, having majored in Economics and minored in Computer Science. She is a first year masters student in the Management Science and Engineering department. Sabine grew up in both Maryland and Virginia, but now considers Stanford her home!

Li-An Zhou. I'm a fifth year Ph.D. student in Econ Department. My study field is usually called CIA--not Central Intelligence Agency but Comparative Institutional Analysis. I have TAed a bunch of Econ courses before, and serving as Econ 1 TA has been my long dream. I hope we can have a good time together.

Seung Hoon Lee. I was born in Korea, but received my highschool and college education in the U.S. I graduated from Yale in 1999 with B.A. in mathematics and economics, and I am currently a second year graduate student in the economics department.

Arturo González de la Mota is a Ph.D. student in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research. He's originally from Mexico City, and worked for the Ministry of Finance as an Economics advisor. He was also a lecturer of Introductory Macroeconomics and Financial Economics during 2 years. Later he worked for J.P. Morgan in their Wall St. office, formulating and implementing mathematical models to price defaultable bonds. His current research studies the causes of price fluctuations in financial markets. He uses microeconomic theory to construct mathematical models, and shows that the diversity of expectations among market participants plays a crucial role generating price volatility. Moreover, he shows that the distribution of beliefs among investors can be indirectly inferred from prices of derivate markets (such as options).

Mike Strauss is a third-year law student at Stanford with a Masters in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Mike's areas of concentration in economics include ecological and development economics and growth and monetary theories. He has a Bachelors in Political Science and American Studies from Williams College and has recently interned as a consultant at the World Bank. Mike has served as a teaching assistant at Stanford for Econ 1 and for Econ 52.

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