Spring 2021
Brief course description: This course provides an introduction to the way of thinking offered by economics. We discuss a wide variety of topics with an emphasis on consumer theory, producer theory, and the successes and failures of markets.
Behavioral and Neuroeconomics - Fall 2020
Experimental Economics; Behavioral Economics - Spring 2020
Labor Economics - Fall 2019
Economic History of Diversity and Inclusion - Spring 2019
Analysis of Economic Data - Fall 2018
Principle of Economics - Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Plan, manage and coordinate behavioral studies
Analyze, visualize and present experimental findings
Manage participant pool through SONA system
Supervise undergraduate students' independent research projects
Summer 2021
We studied the factors that affect the water quality and quantity issues existing within Floyd County. Due to the lack of data on the area’s groundwater resources, we developed various models to indirectly estimate the county’s water resources. We used remote sensing data from both the GRACE satellites and the Landsat 8 satellites to develop estimates for the water quantity trends in the area. Alongside looking at water quantity, we also studied the water quality issues in the county and probed into factors that might lead to potential contamination of the county’s water resources. We identified the geology of the area alongside potential surface contamination sources and household plumbing issues to be the major sources of contamination in the county. We further identified strategies that the county could utilize for sustainable and efficient use of their water resources for future industrial and residential development.
The goal of this project was to analyze these indices in the New River Valley using 11 bands of reflected light captured by the Landsat 8 satellite. This project contained machine learning forecasting algorithms and analysis of literature to use these indices in areas such as precision agriculture, groundwater detection, coastal flooding and drought. We used raw satellite images taken of the region, constructed filters, indices and subsets of the region by decomposing the wavelengths of light collected in each photograph. These subsets were supplied to a feed-forward neural network to obtain a robust prediction model for the New River valley.
2016-2017
Worked at Development Alternatives Group, an NGO in the Delhi-NCR region, on developing viable enterprises for low-income households and rejuvenating livelihoods of artisan-communes through supply chain management and technical and financial linkages.
As part of the fellowship, also wrote a book chapter in "Seventeen: extraordinary journeys of ordinary young Indians" and contributed to periodic blogs published by the fellowship.