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I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, Australia. Before joining Monash University, I was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney in the School of Economics, and before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cowles Foundation, Yale University. I completed my PhD in Economics at McGill University under the supervision of Russell Davidson and Victoria Zinde-Walsh.
I am primarily interested in developing information theoretic approaches to Econometrics, Mathematical Statistics, and Operations Research.
Currently, I am working on problems of Inference for ordering distributions under missing data, and developing Information Projection theory for moment restriction models.
My CV can be found here.
What's New?
October 2024
Invited presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Econometric Study Group.June 2024
I participated in the Summer School on Optimal Transport, Stochastic Analysis, and Applications to Machine Learning.May 2023
I will join the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in January, 2024.December 2022
I will be visiting the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, in 2023. The focus of my visit is engagement to promote my research on inference for income and wealth distributions and missing data, with applications using the HILDA Survey.19th May 2022
I updated my working paper, "The Information Projection in Moment Inequality Models: Existence, Dual Representation, and Approximation", to include numerical examples, illustrating the simplicity of the approximation scheme.12th May 2022
I co-authored an article for The Conversation on the upcoming elections in Lebanon. It is in French:
Élections au Liban : est-ce la fin pour les dirigeants kleptocrates qui ont mis le pays en faillite ?
An Arabic version of this article appeared in the Lebanese daily newspaper An Nahar; it can be accessed here.10th March 2022
I updated my working paper, "The Information Projection in Moment Inequality Models: Existence, Dual Representation, and Approximation", to include an example on random sets, and connect my results to the Sanov Property.25th February 2022
New Working paper: "The Impossibility of Testing for Dependence Using Kendall's tau Under Missing Data of Unknown Form", with Oliver Cutbill.
27th September 2021
I updated my working paper, "The Information Projection in Moment Inequality Models: Existence, Dual Representation, and Approximation", with corrections to the proofs of Theorems 3 and 4.
25th September 2021
"A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions", with Ali Fakih, Paul Makdissi, Walid Marrouch, and Myra Yazbeck, accepted, Journal of Econometrics.