Agricultural & Climate Economist | International Trade | Applied Econometrics

I am a Fulbright Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. I successfully defended my dissertation in September 2026 and expect to complete my Ph.D. in December 2026.

My research lies at the intersection of climate economics, agricultural trade, and food security. I use applied econometrics and large climate, agricultural, and trade datasets to study how extreme weather affects agricultural production, market adjustment, and the allocation of staple commodities between domestic and international markets.

Research

My dissertation, supervised by Dr. Nelson Villoria, consists of Three Essays on Extreme Weather, Agricultural Markets, and International Trade, examines how agricultural markets and trade respond to extreme heat and flood shocks across major producing and exporting regions.

My job market paper, currently under revision at the Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (JAAEA), studies how extreme heat affects corn and soybean production values and export allocations across the U.S. Midwest. I combine PRISM weather data, USDA agricultural statistics, and CMIP6 climate projections in a panel fixed-effects framework.

My second essay examines how floods affect rice trade in Southeast Asia using domestic and international trade flows in a structural gravity framework. My third essay studies heterogeneous responses to floods across South Asian rice exporters, with particular attention to differences in domestic and international trade adjustment.

Together, these projects contribute to a broader research agenda on climate risk, agricultural trade, food-system resilience, and policies that can help agricultural markets adapt to increasingly frequent climate shocks.

Methods & data

My empirical work uses panel-data methods, two-way fixed effects, PPML gravity models, and climate-scenario analysis. I build reproducible research workflows in R, Python, and Stata and work with large datasets from PRISM, CMIP6, EM-DAT, USDA NASS and ERS, FAO, and international trade databases.

I am also expanding my work in data analytics using Python, SQL, APIs, NLP, and LLM-assisted data extraction to build reproducible pipelines for large development and policy datasets.

Background

Before beginning my Ph.D., I taught economics for five years at Northwest Minzu University in China, including Quantitative Methods in Economics, Financial Economics, International Finance, and Global Economic Issues. I also worked on climate, agriculture, and rural-development research at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Pakistan.

My peer-reviewed research in PLOS ONE examines how absorptive capacity, regulatory quality, and property rights shape the relationship between foreign direct investment and domestic innovation.

In 2025, I was part of the Kansas State University team that placed third in the AAEA Graduate Case Study Competition.

Research interests

Climate Economics · Agricultural & Environmental Economics · Climate Risk & Extreme Weather · International Agricultural Trade · Food Security & Food-System Resilience · Applied Econometrics · Climate Adaptation & Trade Policy.

Current Status

I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation on September 17, 2026, and expect to complete my degree in December 2026.

I am on the 2026–27 job market and welcome opportunities for faculty positions, postdoctoral research, research collaborations, and policy-oriented research in agricultural economics, climate economics, international trade, and development.

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