2026, August 06–07: Paper presentation on "Centralised Electrification and Decentralised Energy: Evidence from India’s Rural Grid Expansion" at The Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) Virtual Workshop 2026 on Energy Access, Climate Action, and Development in the Global South under the 11th Annual SETI Collaborative Program Workshop.
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2026, July 23–25: Poster presentation on "Energy System Transition as Carbon Valorisation: Grid Expansion, Fossil Displacement, and Decentralised Renewable Persistence in Rural India" at the SustainX 2026 | Circularity in Energy, Earth and Environment, Annual Conference by the School of Sustainability (SoS) in association with the Centre for Resource Efficiency, Recyclability & Circularity in Energy Transitions held at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. | View Poster
2026, July 23–25: Paper presentation on "The Electrification–Carbon Trade-off: Evidence from Rural India's Lighting Transitions" at the International Conference on Economics, Policy and AI for Development (ICEPAD) 2026 held at Birla Institute of Technology Pilani, Goa Campus, jointly organised by the Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP, a Unit of CSSSC, Kolkata); Department of Economics and Finance, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus; Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (APPCAIR), BITS Pilani Goa, India.
2026, May 25–27: Paper presentation on "Awareness, Infrastructure, and Rare Adoption: Evidence on Microgrids from Rural India" at 2026 RCEA International Conference in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance - ICEEF 2026 / 9th RCEA Time Series Econometrics Workshop / 16th RCEA Bayesian Econometrics Conference / 2026 Climate and Energy Finance Conference held at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain.
2026, May 12–15: Paper presentation on "Coping with Grid Failure: An Economic Analysis of Household Inverter Adoption as a Proxy for Future Storage Demand in Rural India" at the 3rd International Online Conference on Energies (IOCEN) 2026, Part of the International Online Conference on Energies series | View Abstract
2026, April 09–11: Paper presentation on "Does Electrification Reduce Household Carbon Intensity? Evidence from Rural India" at the 3rd Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics Challenges and Emerging Perspectives, organised by INET-YSI held at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
2025, December 26–29: Paper presentation on "Off-Grid Energy Transition: Investigating Microgrid Adoption in India" at the 19th ISDSI-Global Conference, held at the International Management Institute Kolkata, India.
2025, October 06–08: Paper presentation on "Beyond the Grid: Determinants of Household Energy Storage Adoption in India—An Empirical Analysis of Inverter Ownership" at the 3rd MIDS Doctoral Colloquium on Economics and Development Studies, organised and held at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai, India.
2025, October 06–07: Poster presentation on "Rural Microgrids in India: Evidence on Awareness Collapse (2015-2018)" at the Tamil Nadu Land Use 2025: International Conference on Research & Innovation for a Sustainable Future, organized by TNSLURB under the State Planning Commission, Government of Tamil Nadu, and held in collaboration with the IIT Madras School of Sustainability and World Resources Institute (India) at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, India.
2025, June 23–24: Poster presentation on "Off-Grid Energy Transitions: Investigating Microgrid Adoption in India" at the SustainX - ACE 2025 & 4th CO2 India Meet, Decoding Decarbonisation & Accelerating Clean Energy, at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
2023, December 5–8: Poster presentation on "The Emergence of Microgrids as an Innovative Solution in India: A Literature Review" at the Annual Energy Summit of The Energy Consortium, hosted at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
TA for the following courses at IIT Madras:
HS5703: Statistical Inference
HS5760: Climate Economics
ID5070: Energy Economics
Volunteer work in ICFMCF 2026 - IIT Madras, Chennai - June 21 to June 24, 2026.
TA for the NPTEL+ workshop "Decarbonization Pathways: From Science to Policy" held from 6th Feb to 22nd March 2026.
Volunteer work in SustainX - ACE 2025 & 4th CO2 India Meet - Decoding Decarbonisation & Accelerating Clean Energy - IIT Madras, Chennai - June 21 to June 24, 2025.