I am an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and an Associate Faculty at the School of Sustainability at IIT Madras, Chennai. I am an affiliated researcher at the Energy Consortium at IIT Madras. 

I have received several awards, including the Trend Setters Grant Award, Australia Awards India Fellowship and Prof. Raghuram Rajan’s “Young Scholar Grant Award.” I completed my doctoral research at IIT Bombay in 2013. My dissertation titled “Economics of Energy Use in Indian Industries” received the “Excellence in PhD Research Award 2012-2013” at IIT Bombay.  My research interests include energy economics, applied microeconomics, industrial economics, institutional economics, economics of climate change and techno-economic analysis, including LCA. 

The courses I teach at IIT Madras include Statistical Inference, International Economics, Energy Economics, Climate Economics, Principles of Economics, Applied Economics and Applied Econometrics. Earlier, I taught at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai and Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV)