Will Ma - Students & Postdocs

I've had the pleasure of working with the following fantastic students & postdocs.

Postdocs

• Jiangze Han, postdoc at Columbia CAIT funded by Dream11 (co-mentor, with Vineet Goyal)

• Calum MacRury, 2023-25 postdoc at Columbia DRO (mentor)

  First position: Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech ISyE

• Andreas Maggiori, 2023-25 postdoc at Columbia DSI (co-mentor, with Eric Balkanski)

  First position: Google

• Jingwei Zhang, 2022-23 postdoc at Columbia CAIT funded by Amazon (co-mentor, with Huseyin Topaloglu)

PhD Students

• Xintong Yu, PhD student at Columbia DRO (advisor)

• Yaqi Xie, PhD student at Chicago Booth OM (co-advisor, with Linwei Xin)

• Matias Romero, PhD student at Columbia DRO (co-advisor, with Hongyao Ma)

• Wenxin Zhang, 2026 PhD from Columbia DRO (co-advisor, with Santiago Balseiro)

  First position: Assistant Professor at London Business School, Management Science and Operations

• Boris Epstein, 2025 PhD from Columbia DRO (advisor)

  First position: Meta

• Nathaniel Grammel, 2025 PhD from Maryland CS (non-advisor but close collaborator)

  First position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore CS

• Omar Mouchtaki, 2024 PhD from Columbia DRO (co-advisor, with Omar Besbes)

  First position: Assistant Professor at NYU Stern OM

• Billy Jin, 2024 PhD from Cornell ORIE (non-advisor but close collaborator)

  First position: Assistant Professor at Purdue Daniels School of Business

• Jiashuo Jiang, 2022 PhD from NYU Stern OM (co-advisor, with Jiawei Zhang)

  First position: Assistant Professor at HKUST IEDA

Undergraduate Students

• Yunhan (Carina) Chen, undergraduate student at Columbia University

• Zhuoxin Chen, class of 2026 at Tsinghua University