Professional Experience
Feb '21 - Aug' 24
Manager | Department of Statistics and Information Management
Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India
Economic Research and Analysis
• Introduced a new information flow process to capture foreign exchange transactions in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) to refine
India’s balance of payments (BoP) statistics.
• Analyzed IT export survey data for non-response items using linear mixed models.
• Contributed to monthly State of the Economy articles by compiling and analyzing data from banking, corporate surveys, and external sectors.
Data Compilation and Mentorship
• Responsible for BoP statistics compilation, data analytics, consistency checks, and high-value transaction confirmation with banks, including estimates for bilateral service trade.
• Mentored summer and research interns on topics including the gravity model, revealed comparative advantages in India’s service trade, and data visualization with Power BI.
Jan'26- Present
Aug' 24 - Dec'25
Teaching Experience
Auburn University
Instructor
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Fundamentals of Statistical Inference I (STAT 5510, 6610) (Fall 2025)
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Introduction to Data Science, STAT 4000 (Spring 2025)
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Probability and Statistics II, STAT 3610 (Fall 2024)
IIT Bombay
Teaching Assistant
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Introduction to Probability (Fall 2020)
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Regression Analysis (Springs 2019, 2020)
Mentorship
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Undergraduate student, Honors Contract project - Spring 2025
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Graduate student Rashomon sets in multi-model inference - 2024, 2025
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Research intern, India’s current account Sustainability - Spring 2021
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Summer interns, Power BI dashboard, and the services trade - Summer 2022, 2023
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Tutored Science & Math to students from underserved communities - 2018, 2019
Technical Skills
• Extensive programming experience with R
• Programming experience with Python, Mathematica, and C++