I am currently a third-year Economics PhD student at the University of Southern California. 

My research agenda focuses on how to alleviate frictions in allocating people, land and opportunity in developing countries. I combine modern, large-scale administrative and satellite data with frontier econometric methods to look at the effects of upzoning in India's national capital, spillovers from turnover of frontline bureaucrats in India's villages, changes in land ownership patterns due to inheritance reforms and how service disruptions affect early childhood development in the US.

Before starting my PhD, I was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Development Data Lab, where I worked on SHRUG 2.0, a comprehensive, high-resolution open data platform for India, combining massive administrative and remote-sensing data over 30 years. I also worked with a project management team to guide the development of the National Data and Analytics Platform, which harmonizes administrative datasets across time and space to ensure that Indian administrative data is truly publicly accessible.