Education

Bocconi University, Milan (August 2020 - Present)

Masters in Economics and Social Sciences

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (August 2013 - May 2017)

Bachelors of Science in Economics

Tepper College Honors

Research Experience

Bocconi University, Milano (ITA) (October 2021 - December 2021)

Research Assistant

  • Building automated software mounted on AWS to provide intervention in RCT immediately as treatment is assigned.

Yale University, New Haven CT (September 2019 - August 2020)

Research Associate

  • Examined and helped create recommendations for government-sponsored catastrophe insurance.

  • Wrote intensive histories of housing aid and municipal liquidity during historical financial crises.

  • Examined effects of broad-based capital injections employed during the Japanese Financial Crisis.

Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC (October 2017 - August 2019)

Research Assistant

  • Wrote code for various research outputs, including automated Bloomberg pulls and tree generation from relational datasets

  • Programmed a securities lending monitoring system outputting charts through a SLURM-scheduled task.

  • Wrote and distributed a daily newsletter on financial stability, circulated to Board Staff.

Teaching Experience

FedEd (Sporadic)

  • Educated local high schoolers in the functions of the Federal Reserve

Teaching Assistant, Principles of Economics (73-100) (January 2017 - May 2017)

  • Led weekly recitations for two recitation sections in Carnegie Mellon's intro economics course

  • Held weekly office hours

Course Teacher, Financial Freedom (99-272) (January 2015 - May 2015)

  • Co-created and co-taught credit-bearing course in financial literacy for 50 students

  • Wrote and graded exams; assessed final projects

  • Provided weekly meeting and mentoring through financial decision-making and planning

Mentor, MoneyThink (September 2013 - May 2014)

  • Taught financial literacy curriculum to students with learning disabilities in inner-city Pittsburgh

  • Regularly modified and specialized curriculum to fit student needs and pace

Publications

Blog Posts

Research Projects

Wage Inequality and Hate Speech (January 2021 - September 2021)

Research In Color Foundation, Mentee

  • Selected as a promising emerging researcher of color to pursue an independent research project.

  • Investigating potential links between online hate speech and inequality under the guidance of Dr. Mina Kim (BLS).

  • Regularly attend workshops by JPAL and Berkeley Faculty.

  • One of ten mentees to present research at symposium.

Radicalization in Online Communities (Ongoing/On Hold)

  • Utilizes novel dataset to run sentiment analysis on community level lexicons.

  • Develops hate-speech lexicons through machine learning and natural language processing.

  • Maps sentiment dictionaries to create a ordinal distribution of slang online in various communities.

Senior Honors Thesis (September 2016 - May 2017)

Quantitative Social Science Scholars

  • Proposed potential Asian currency anchors for developing economies.

  • Investigates the effects of currency unions on FDI.

  • Examined homogeneity of economies within existing currency unions.

  • Determined that countries may benefit from leaving the EU and anchoring to Asian currencies.

Resident Assistant Selection (April 2016)

  • Implemented auction theory, recognizing mass-market hiring problem as auction problem rather than matching problem.

  • Reduced selection time by 75%.

Campus Engagement Subsidy (September 2016 - May 2017)

Student Body President

  • Utilized economic theory to create budgetary subsidy system, increasing civic engagement in campus clubs.

  • Increased campus engagement by 20 clubs of 50 students each.

Awards and Honors

Related Skills

Programming: R, Python, Stata, SAS, SQL (Advanced), VBA, SPSS, MATLAB (intermediate), HTML, CSS, Java (beginner)

Software: Git, Bloomberg, WRDS, SNL, Palantir, LaTeX

Languages: English (native), Telugu (native), Japanese (conversational), Italian (intermediate)

Leadership

  • President, World@Bocconi (Bocconi International Students' Association)

  • Class Representative, Bocconi University

  • Student Body President, Carnegie Mellon University

  • ICCA Set Arranger, Counterpoint Acapella, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Community Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Committee Chair, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Resident Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University

  • First Lectures Founder, Carnegie Mellon University