Research Experience
Research Associate (Current)
Organisation: Center For Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India
Research Assistant (May 2025 - Present)
PIs: Dr. John Stachurski & Dr. Matthew McKay
Organisation: QuantEcon
- Design and develop an open, accessible undergraduate economics course using Pyodide and WebAssembly for real-time simulation and code execution, teaching scientific computing to tackle issues like inequality, resource scarcity, and climate change.
Data Science Intern (March 2025 - August 2025)
PIs: Dr. Paul Novosad
Organisation: Development Data Lab
- Cleaning and writing the codes to incorporate the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER, 2007-2024) for India into the Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) Dataset by Development Data Lab.
Research Assistant (2024 - Present)
PIs: Dr. Nirupama Kulkarni, Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee, & Dr. Ashwini Deshpande
Paper Title: A project on Culture and Debt in India
- Analyzing emigration patterns and debt holdings across different castes, religions, and social strata using the CMIE-CPHS dataset, with a focus on state-wise and district-wise variations in India.
- Investigating loan-taking behavior among various castes and religions, exploring the influence of cultural norms and traditions on these financial decisions.
Research Assistant (April 2025 - May 2025)
- Replicating the methodologies of a Journal of Development Economics paper using the Annual Status of Education Reports Data (ASER) at the state level.
Research Assistant (December 2024 - January 2025)
PIs: Dr. Ashwini Deshpande & Dr. Anisha Sharma
Paper Title: “Punishment and Crime: Impact of Death Penalty on Local Crime Rates in India”
Research Intern (2024)
PIs: Dr. Gautham Udupa & Dr. Vidhya Soundararajan
- Converting several Stata codes and writing MATLAB equivalents for a project.
- Reviewing RBI circulals and identifying important notifications related to Priority Sector Lending in India.
- Reviewing literature on developmental factors that affect stock market participation and presenting them during the internship at CAFRAL.