Curriculum vitae

Updated August 2026.

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

Research Support Specialist I
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University.

2023 – 2024

Graduate Research Assistant, AIDE Lab
The University of Arizona.

2022 – 2023

Graduate Research Assistant, Cooperative Extension
The University of Arizona.

2022 – 2023

Fellow, Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support
University of Arizona.

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 · Eric Monke Memorial Scholarship
The University of Arizona.

2023

Travel grants
BITSS RT2, UC Berkeley; 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, 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, \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\)

Languages

English (fluent), Hindi (native), Marathi (native)