Working Experience

Economist - US Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Policy Development and Research

May 2023 - Present

• Developed and refined predictive models for the FHA TOTAL Scorecard algorithm, incorporating machine learning techniques to enhance mortgage risk assessment.

• Contributed to policy development, supporting FHA mortgage policy studies on alternative credit scoring, positive rental history, and credit attributes.

• Conducted research and analysis on mortgage performance, authoring and contributing to multiple studies on mortgage delinquency and prepayment behavior.

Economist, Intern - Federal Housing Finance Agency - Division of Research and Statistics

May 2021 - Sep 2022

• Explored the application of the X-13 seasonal adjustment method, a successor to X-12, to update and optimize the suite of public indices provided by FHFA across 400 metropolitan areas and additional geographies.

• Analyzed the impact of weather-related, social, and industrial characteristics on the discrepancies between adjusted and non-adjusted House Price Indices.

• Conducted a comprehensive study on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on seasonal adjustment routines and forecasts

Instructor - Syracuse University 

Summer 2022. Rate: 5.5/6

• Instructor of Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics 

• Encompassed the principles of statistical inference, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and time-series forecasting.

Research Assistant - Syracuse University under Professor Abdulaziz B. Shifa

Oct 2022 - May 2023

• Executed data cleaning and preparation using Stata.

• Analyzed datasets, providing key insights that supported research outcomes.

Teaching Assistant

Statistics and Econometrics 

Instructor:  Prof. Jan Ondrich

Undergraduate Course, Syracuse University, 2022.

Intermediate Macroeconomics 

Instructor:   Prof. Jan Ondrich

Undergraduate Course, Syracuse University, 2021.

Intermediate Microeconomics 

Instructor:   Prof. Inge O’Connor

Undergraduate Course, Syracuse University, 2020-2021.

Principle Microeconomics 

Instructor:   Prof. Derek Laing

Undergraduate Course, Syracuse University, 2020.

Econometric Methods 

Instructor:   Prof. Yulong Wang

Undergraduate Course,  Syracuse University, 2018-2019.

Health Economics 

Instructor:   Prof. Perry Singleton

Undergraduate Course, Syracuse University, 2018.

Principle Microeconomics 

Instructor:   Prof. Neha Khanna 

Undergraduate Course, Binghamton University, 2017.