I hold an MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the
University of Chicago (2024, Siebel Scholar), and a B.E. in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from
BITS Pilani, Goa with a
minor in Politics, Economics, and Philosophy. Prior to Chicago, I was a
Research Associate at the Urban Informatics Lab at the
Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Metrics and analysis for large-scale US primary election surveys,
piloting new voting methods and candidate slates with Prof. Moon Duchin
at Cornell University (Summer 2024).
Spatial features for the Cook County Assessor's housing valuation model;
automated property tax explainers and fairness assessment reports.
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Localised Segregation Study
Collaborated with Cornell University on a project using cell-phone pings
to study localised segregation patterns.
National district-to-district migration estimates; population
projections to 2051 using Bayesian hierarchical models; confidential
COVID-19 district risk analysis for the Government of India (2020).
Local Data Journalism
Ran the Mansueto Institute's Local Data Journalism Fellowship
(2024–2026), leading teams of research assistants on urban-focused
data journalism collaborations with Chicago newsrooms.
Extracted and standardised hospital pricing data across the Chicago
metro area (208M+ rows), supporting analysis of price variation
across hospitals and insurers.
Built a property ownership tool that uncovers networks of LLC
landlords behind the city's rental housing, matching parcels and
entities by common addresses and names.
Two papers on predicting operative temperature and adaptive thermal
comfort controls using machine learning.
[BSO 2022][FARU 2022]
Teaching
University of Illinois, Chicago — Adjunct Instructor
PA 470, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Public
Sector (Spring 2025).
Harris School of Public Policy — Teaching Assistant
(2022–2024)
Data and Programming for Public Policy; Mathematics for CS and Data
Analysis; Software Engineering for Civic Tech.
IIHS — Urban Fellows Programme
Designed and delivered courses on data and public data sources for the
Urban Fellows Programme and ad-hoc sessions for bureaucrats and policy
professionals.
Scrape pre-defined job boards at scheduled frequency.
Contact
Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about anything! Especially if
you are from an underrepresented minority from India/South Asia, I would
love to help out in any way I can - from help with research to writing grad
school applications, and preparing for CAT/GRE/BITSAT etc.
I'm a PhD student in
Political Economy at the University of Chicago, and a data scientist and policy analyst, broadly interested in India
and the Global South.