Research

Publications

1. “Down to the Wire: Leveraging Technology to Improve Utility Cost Recovery” (2024) Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal (AEJ): Applied Economics, with Husnain Ahmad, Robyn Meeks, Zhenxuan Wang, and Javed Younas (Impact Factor: 7.966; RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

2. “Toolbox of Interventions Against Online Misinformation” (2024) Nature Human Behavior, 8(7), 1044–1052, with Kozyreva, Anastasia, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan M. Herzog, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig, et al. [PsyArXiv link] (Impact Factor: 29.9; RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

3. “Countering Misinformation on Social Media Through Educational Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan” (2023) Journal of Development Economics, 163(2):103108, with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi (Impact Factor: 5;   

    RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

4. “Validated Digital Literacy Measures for Populations with Low Levels of Internet Experiences” (2023) The Journal of Engineering in Economic Development (Development Engineering), 

Volume 8, with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza 

(Impact Factor: 1.78; RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

5. “Digital Literacy and Vulnerability to Misinformation: Evidence from Facebook Users in Pakistan” (2022) Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2, with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

6. “Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID–19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan” (2022) Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 3(4), with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

7. “Investor Focused Placement and Sizing of Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Systems in Pakistan” (2018) Renewable Energy, 121, 460-473, with Ullah, Hayat, Kamal, I., and Arshad, N.(Impact Factor: 8.7; RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

Working Papers

8. “Breaking the culture of non-payment: A qualitative analysis of utility intervention Project Sarbulandi in Karachi” R&R 

Utilities Policy (2024) with Husnain Ahmad, Robyn Meeks, Victoria Plutshack, Zhenxuan Wang, Javed Younas (Impact Factor: 3.247; RePEc, Scimago, Scopus)

9. “Do reward and reprimand policies reduce electricity distribution losses?” (2023) (Under Review)

with Khusrav Gaibulloev and Javed Younas

10. “Digital Literacy and Vulnerability to Political DeepFake Misinformation” (2023) (Submitted) 

with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

11. "Electricity Outages and Employment: Evidence from Thermal Power Plants and Energy Prices in Pakistan", October 2019.

12. “Do Political Dynasties Hinder Development? Evidence from Natural Disaster in Pakistan” International Growth Center Working Paper, 2017.

Other Peer-Reviewed Publications/Book chapters

13. “Greening Energy Provision in Urban Pakistan” (2020) with Sardar Mohazzam and Saleem Ali. 

In Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship, ed. Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar, David Audrestch, Jonathan Justice, 2020, pp. 227-247, The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. 

14. “A Framework for Improving Web Affordability and Inclusiveness” (2023)

ACM SIGCOMM 2023, with Rumaisa Habib, Sarah Tanveer, Aimen Inam, Haseeb Ahmed, Ayesha Ali, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi (CORE Rank A*)

15. “A First Look at Public Service Websites from the Affordability Lens” (2023)

The ACM Web Conference (WWW), with R. Habib, A. Inam, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, and Zafar Ayyub Qazi (CORE Rank A*)

16. “Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion” (2021)

ACM HotNets, with Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar A. Qazi, M. Abdullah, Rumaisa Habib (CORE Rank A)

17. “Fake Audio Detection in Resource–constrained Settings using Microfeatures” (2021)

INTERSPEECH, with Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza (CORE Rank A)

18. “Using Self Attention DNNs to Discover Phonemic Features for Audio Deep Fake Detection” (2021)

IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, with Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza

19. “Inverted HVAC: Greenifying Older Buildings, One Room at a Time” (2018)

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 14 (3-4), 1-26, with Abbas, Samar, Bakar, A., Chandio, Y., Hafeez, K., Jadoon, T. M., and Alizai, M. H.  (Impact Factor: 3.687; Scimago, Scopus)

20. “Inverting HVAC for Energy Efficient Thermal Comfort in Populous Emerging Countries” (2017)

The ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, with Hafeez, K., Chandio, Y., Bakar, A., Ali, A., Syed, A. A., Jadoon, T. M., and Alizai, M. H [Audience Choice Award] (CORE Rank A)