Curriculum vitae
Education
2022 – 2024
MS, Agricultural and Resource Economics
The University of Arizona.
Thesis: Variable Selection in Economic Applications of Remotely Sensed Weather Data — Evidence from the LSMS-ISA.
AAEA Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, 2025.
2020 – 2022
MBA, General Management
Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya.
Member: Academic Committee
2015 – 2019
BTech, Petrochemical Engineering
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University.
Representative: Literature Secretary, Dept. of Petrochemical Engineering
Positions
2024 – present
Predoctoral Research Fellow, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University.
Food safety, security, and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, with John Hoddinott and Joanna Upton.
2023 – 2024
Graduate Research Assistant, AIDE Lab
The University of Arizona.
AI-assisted literature reviews, remotely sensed weather data, the LSMS-ISA, and undergraduate research internship, with Jeffrey Michler and Anna Josephson.
2022 – 2023
Graduate Research Assistant, Cooperative Extension
The University of Arizona.
National survey of sports field managers on weed management adoption, with George Frisvold.
2022 – 2023
Fellow, Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support (HATS)
The University of Arizona.
Case studies of household recovery after Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans, 2005) and Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico, 2017), with Timothy Finan and Corrie Hannah.
Awards and grants
2025
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
2022, 2023
Graduate International Student Award
The University of Arizona.
2023
R. Keith Walden Scholarship
The University of Arizona.
2023
Eric Monke Memorial Scholarship
The University of Arizona.
2023
Travel grant
Training BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Trainings (RT2), University of California, Berkeley.
Case Study Presentation Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Ohio.
Teaching
2023
Undergraduate Research Internship in Data Analysis and Applied Economics
Designed and ran the Undergraduate Research Internship in Data Analysis and Applied Economics, funded by the Resilience Internships and Student Experience (RISE) Program, The University of Arizona.
Taught causal inference and applied data analysis in Stata, and reproducibility practice using the Social Science Reproduction Platform framework, from Huntington-Klein’s The Effect and Christensen, Freese, and Miguel’s Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research.
2022
AREC/ECON 339: Economic Statistics
Academic tutor, The University of Arizona.
Service
2026
Organizing Committee
Northeastern Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC), Cornell.
2025 – 2026
Reviewer, STARS Program
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Skills
Software
Stata, Python, Qualtrics, Git, \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\), KoboToolbox
Languages
English (fluent), Hindi (native), Marathi (native)