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Applied microeconomist and PhD candidate with research experience in health economics, health policy, digital infrastructure, rural development, and insurance markets. Uses quasi-experimental methods and large county-level panel datasets to evaluate policy effects, with particular expertise in modern difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, panel-data methods, and instrumental variables.

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Nevada, Reno (2023-01 – Present)

Supervisor: Professor Sankar Mukhopadhyay | USDA-funded research on broadband and health outcomes

• Conduct research for the main grant project estimating the causal effect of broadband funding and broadband availability on health outcomes in the United States.
• Construct and analyze large county-, census-tract-, and county-year datasets by integrating FCC broadband and auction records with health, insurance, demographic, and economic data.
• Apply modern difference-in-differences estimators, regression discontinuity designs, instrumental variables, event studies, fixed effects, and robustness diagnostics.
• Prepare research tables, figures, literature reviews, technical documentation, and manuscript sections for policy-oriented academic outputs.

Junior Business Analyst at store2be GmbH (2018-01 – 2020-12)

• Analyzed commercial and operational data to support business planning and performance monitoring in a technology startup environment.
• Used SQL, spreadsheets, and data-reporting workflows to clean data, produce recurring analyses, and communicate findings to business teams.
• Worked across technical and non-technical teams in an international workplace and translated business questions into structured analytical tasks.

PhD in Economics – University of Nevada, Reno (2023-01 – 2027-12)

MSc in Data Science – University of Sunderland (2021-01 – 2022-12)

MSc in Economics – University of Konstanz (2015-01 – 2018-12)

BSc in Economics – Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) (2011-01 – 2015-12)