Syed Badruddoza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Email: Syed.Badruddoza@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1921
Office: Agricultural Science 204-A
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Dr. Syed Badruddoza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics with a concentration in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics and an M.S. in Statistics from Washington State University. He also holds an M.S. in Applied Financial Economics from Illinois State University and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
His research examines agribusiness, retail markets, consumer and firm behavior, and rural development. Current projects focus on structural changes in U.S. agriculture, including evolving consumer preferences, technological adoption, product innovation, and marketing strategies. His recent work analyzes business location decisions, farm consolidation, and market research. He also applies machine learning and data science methods to improve prediction and classification in agricultural and food market analysis.
At Texas Tech, Dr. Badruddoza teaches courses in econometrics, statistics, applied machine learning for business and economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, international trade, and international business.
Prior to joining Texas Tech, he worked on a U.S. Department of Agriculture–funded project on consumer perceptions of genome-edited beef in collaboration with the University of California–Davis, the University of Idaho, and Washington State University. He also served as a consultant in the Agriculture and Rural Development Division and the Environment and Energy Division at the World Bank, contributing to studies on access to finance, agricultural seasonality, and energy poverty in South Asia and Africa. Earlier in his career, he participated in policy research projects on finance and development with the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Institute for Inclusive Finance and Development, and the Economic Research Group.
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