Research Experience
Research Associate (July 2025 - Present)
Organisation: Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India
- Designing and maintaining data pipelines to process and clean large, complex datasets, ensuring reliability, scalability, and reproducibility in empirical workflows.
- Leveraging parallelization across multiple cores to improve computational efficiency and substantially reduce run times when working with high-volume data.
Research Assistant (May 2025 - Dec 2025)
Organisation: QuantEcon
- Designing open-access undergraduate economics course using Pyodide/WebAssembly for real-time simulation, teaching scientific computing for inequality, resource scarcity, and climate change.
- Enhancing QuantEcon’s intermediate Python lectures by rewriting selected series with JAX, improving computational efficiency, numerical accuracy, and scalability.
Data Science Intern (Mar - Sept 2025)
PI: Dr. Paul Novosad
Organisation: Development Data Lab
- Cleaning and coding Annual Status of Education Reports Data (2007-2022) for incorporation into The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) Dataset by Development Data Lab.
Research Assistant (Aug 2024 - Present)
PIs: Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee, Dr. Ashwini Deshpande & Dr. Nirupama Kulkarni
Project: Culture and Debt in India
- Analyzing emigration patterns and debt holdings across castes, religions, and social strata using CMIE-CPHS, focusing on state/district variations.
- Investigating loan-taking behavior across castes/religions, exploring cultural norms’ influence on financial decisions.
Research Assistant (Apr - May 2025)
Organisation: Ashoka University
- Replicating methodologies from Journal of Development Economics paper using Annual Status of Education Reports Data at state level.
Research Assistant (Dec 2024 - Jan 2025)
PIs: Dr. Ashwini Deshpande & Dr. Anisha Sharma
Paper: “Punishment and Crime: Impact of Death Penalty on Local Crime Rates in India”
Research Intern (2024)
PIs: Dr. Gautham Udupa & Dr. Vidhya Soundararajan
Organisation: CAFRAL, RBI
- Converting Stata codes to MATLAB equivalents; reviewing RBI circulars on Priority Sector Lending; reviewing literature on developmental factors affecting stock market participation.