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Education

• FPM in Accounting and Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad — Aug 2024 – Present
• M.Sc. Financial Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune — Jul 2019 – May 2021
  • GPA: 8.45/10 (3.625/4)
  • Awarded Prof. N.V. Sovani Award for highest marks in Financial Modeling and Engineering
• B.A. (Hons.) Economics, University of Delhi (Satyawati College), New Delhi — Jul 2015 – May 2018

Work Experience

• Research Associate, Indian School of Business, Mohali — Oct 2023 – Jul 2024
  • Supervisor: Prof. Shekhar Tomar
  • Conducted macroeconomic research on international trade; implemented DiD using reghdfe/ppmlhdfe in Stata on 250M+ observation firm-product-level dataset.
• Young Professional, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Mumbai — Aug 2022 – Oct 2023
  • Department of Economic and Policy Analysis
  • Led projects on financial stress indices, capital outflow risks, and credit risk early warning indicators.
  • Developed the Securities Market Inclusion Index (SMII) and a Fear-Greed Index.
• Research Associate, Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai — Jun 2021 – Jul 2022
  • Supervisor: Prof. Vijaya Gupta
  • Paper on Total Factor Productivity of Indian Manufacturing selected for IEA World Congress 2023.
  • Estimated TFP using Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen indicator and Malmquist index in R and Stata.

Internships

• Research Intern, Copenhagen Business School (Remote) — Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
  • Supervisor: Prof. Rama Seth
  • Contributed to published chapter: Impact of legal enforcement of CSR on SDGs, Elgar Publishing, 2022.
• Economic Research Intern, Data with Saloni (Remote) — Nov 2020 – May 2021
  • Projects in Bayesian methods, Sentiment Analysis, RCTs, and ML algorithms (Python, R, Stata).

Skills

• Programming: Python, R
• Statistical Tools: Stata, WinBUGS
• Databases: Bloomberg, Eikon Refinitiv
• Other: Excel, LaTeX

Publications

Working Paper Title

The Dominant Role of Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Non-Parametric Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity

References

• Prof. Vijaya Gupta (Professor) — Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai
• Prof. Rama Seth (Associate Professor of Finance) — Copenhagen Business School
• Prof. Shekhar Tomar (Assistant Professor) — Indian School of Business
• Dr. Prabhas Rath (Chief General Manager) — Securities and Exchange Board of India