Awards and Honors

• 2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (June 2025) 

• Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School, Louisiana State University (March 2023)

• Outstanding PhD Student Award, Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Louisiana State University (September 2022)

• Outstanding PhD Student Award, Nepalese Student Association at LSU (September 2022)

• PhD Student Job Market Paper Competition (2nd place), Southern Agricultural Economics Association (February 2022)

• Student Poster Competition (2nd runner-up), Nepalese Agricultural Professionals of Americas (2022)

• Student Writing Contest (1st Runner-up), Nepalese Agricultural Professionals of Americas (2020 & 2018)