CV

Education
- B.S. in Economics and Mathematics (Joint) with high distinction, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2017-2021
- MSc Economics with Distinction and John Stewart Prize, University of Manchester, 2021-2022
Experience
- Staff Associate I/ Predoctoral Research Fellow in Economics, Columbia University in City of New York, 2022-Present
  - Worked with Professors Michael Carlos Best and Jack J. Willis in Department of Economics.
  - Assisted on projects in Public Finance and Development Economics.

Data Scientist, AFINITI, 2021
- Built models to optimize agent-caller pairs using large datasets with MYSQL and Python.
- Achieved a 2% increase in revenue per call by building predictive models.

Research Interests
- Primary: Public Finance
- Secondary: Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization
Programming
- STATA (Advanced)
- Python (Proficient)
- Julia (Basic)
- MATLAB (Proficient)
- RStudio (Intermediate)
- SQL
- LaTeX (Intermediate)
- Slurn
- Git
Languages
- English: Fluent (speaking, reading, writing)
- Punjabi: Native
Honors & Awards
- Weiss Fund for Development Economics Kabir Banerjee Predoctoral Fellowship Finalist, University of Chicago, September 2022
- John Stewart Prize for Econometrics, University of Manchester, December 2022
- Dean’s Honor List, 2019-2020
- AFINITI Limited Scholarship, 2018
- Dean’s Honor List, 2017-2018
- National Outreach Program Scholarship, LUMS, Lahore, 2017
- Pakistan Science Foundation Science Talent Farming Scheme Scholarship, 2015
- Punjab Educational Endowment Fund Merit Scholarship for orphan students, 2010-2016

Education