I'm a PhD candidate at IIT Jodhpur, working in the economics of crime and development economics. However, if you asked me five years ago, I would have said I'd be working in insolvency and banking. Life, data availability, and a practical advisor had other plans.

Before entering academia, I qualified as a Chartered Accountant, which meant I spent years learning to read balance sheets and identify financial patterns. That training turns out to be surprisingly useful when analysing institutional effectiveness and economic mechanisms in criminal justice systems. Numbers tell stories if you know how to read them, and following those stories through decades of data is what led to most of the research you will see in my profile.

My interest isn't purely academic. I'm drawn to questions that matter for public policy; the kind where getting the answer right (or wrong) affects how millions of people interact with institutions. Whether it's understanding why marginalised communities are overrepresented in prisons, how legal reforms actually change reporting behaviour, or what makes rehabilitation programs work, these aren't abstract puzzles; they're questions with real stakes.

When I'm not analysing datasets or reading criminology papers, I'm probably watching films. Cinema offers something research papers rarely do: the human stories behind the statistics, the emotional truth beneath institutional failures. It's a reminder that behind every data point about crime, discrimination, or institutional failure is someone's lived experience. Good policy requires both the rigour of empirical analysis and the empathy to understand what those numbers actually mean for people's lives.