Portrait of Pankhuri Saxena

Pankhuri Saxena

PhD Student in Quantitative Marketing

University of Chicago · Booth School of Business

About

I am a first-year PhD student in Quantitative Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I am broadly interested in empirical industrial organization and its applications to marketing.

Before coming to Booth, I spent two years as an Empirical Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Education

2025–

PhD in Quantitative Marketing

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

2022–2023

MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics

London School of Economics and Political Science

2017–2022

BSc (Hons) + MSc in Economics

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Experience

2023–2025

Empirical Research Fellow

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of quantitative marketing and empirical industrial organization, with a focus on applied econometrics and structural modeling.

Working papers and projects in progress will appear here as they develop.

News

2025

Started the PhD program in Quantitative Marketing at Chicago Booth.

2023

Joined the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, as an Empirical Research Fellow.

2022

Began the MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics.

2022

Awarded the J. C. Ghosh Memorial Gold Medal at IIT Kharagpur — best all-rounder among all graduating integrated MSc and dual-degree students.