CV

Education

Bocconi University, Milan

Masters in Economics and Social Sciences

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Bachelors of Science in Economics

Tepper College Honors

Research Experience

Bocconi University, Milano (ITA)

Research Assistant

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

Yale University, New Haven CT

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

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

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

Teaching Assistant, Principles of Economics

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

  • Held weekly office hours

Course Teacher, Financial Freedom

  • 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

  • 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

Prompt Recapitalization Act, November 2021
Financial Functions Stabilization Act, November 2021
Act on Strengthening Financial Functions, with Junko Oguri, November 2021
Joint Recapitalization Program, with Ariel Smith, November 2021

Blog Posts

Understanding Parametric Triggers in Catastrophe Insurance
Barriers to Access Impede Utilization of Municipal Liquidity Facility
Residential Mortgage and Rent Relief During Crises
Mortgage Forbearance and Housing Expense Relief in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak
Expanding Debt Restructuring Options for Mortgage Lenders in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak
CARES Act Provides Mortgage Forbearance
European Stability Mechanism Establishes Pandemic Support Credit Lines
Federal Reserve Announces New Municipal Liquidity Facility
Aid to Airlines and other Critical Industries During Crises
US Provides Aid to Airlines in Historic Relief Bill
More Aid Offered To Airlines as Pandemic Continues to Depress Demand

Research Projects

Wage Inequality and Hate Speech

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Reduced selection time by 75%.

Campus Engagement Subsidy

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)

Extra-Curricular

  • 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