Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Developed models of economic behavior to study gender differences in employment and resource allocation in India; estimated model parameters by matching predicted behavior to observed data, combining moments-based methods and causal inference methods
• Improved computational performance by implementing memory-efficient parallelization on HPC clusters using Slurm, enabling estimation tasks infeasible under a serial workflow
• Built an end-to-end data pipeline to process unstructured data scattered across 350 files (~100 GB size) for analysis

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Led weekly teaching sessions in Economics, Econometrics and Programming courses for undergraduate and graduate students
• Demonstrated ability to present information to students at different stages of academic training, adapting explanations for learners from introductory to graduate levels.
• Rated an Excellent TA by students for all 6 out of 6 semesters of teaching at UW Madison