CV
Fields of Specialization
Education
Ph.D. in Economics 2026 (expected)
Stony Brook University
- Advisors: Yiyi Zhou and Steven Stern
- Certificate in Artificial Intelligence
M.S. in Analytics 2022
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Concentration: Machine Learning
M.S. in Economics 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Economics 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology
Job Market Paper
Investment and the Transfer of Power: Dynamic Effects of Transmission in Electricity Markets
Renewable resources are essential for energy transition, but unequal geographic distribution limits nationwide adoption. I develop and estimate a dynamic model of generator behavior consisting of a short-run optimal dispatch problem incorporating line losses and zonal transmission constraints and a long-run dynamic game for capacity investment. Using data from ISOs in the Eastern Interconnection and ERCOT from 2018–2023, I find that upgrading all interzonal transmission to modern HVDC standards would reduce average wholesale prices by 6%, generating approximately $4 billion in annual welfare gains. Major transmission projects like the Grain Belt Express increase solar and wind adoption by over 10% by 2050. Transmission and investment subsidies (IRA, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) are complements in encouraging transition.
Publications
Offshore Horizons: HVDC Wind Farms – Exploring Techno-Economic Dimensions
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology is a cornerstone of efficient Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) power transmission. This review examines HVDC OWF connections through four interlinked dimensions: economic considerations, connection topologies, converter designs, and technical modeling.
Working Papers
Non Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement
Industrial Policies in a Market with Environmental Externalities: Evidence from the Chinese Solar Panel Industry
AI Efficiency and United States Power Quality and Emissions
Integrating Biophysical and Economic Models to Assess U.S. Agricultural Resilience
Econ Gym: A Generalized Framework for Solving Dynamic Structural Models in Economics
Commodity Markets LLM-based Futures Forecasting
Taxation with Debt Default
Works in Progress
A Structural Model of Data Center Procurement of Electricity with Impacts on Reliability, Emissions, and Prices
Agentic AI Modeling for Rapid Analysis of Chokepoint Crises Along Strategic and Economic Dimensions
Agricultural Supply Chain Resilience: Using AI to Integrate Economic and Biophysical Models
The International Determinants of Shareholder Disagreement
Robust PCA and Limit Uniqueness in High-dimensional Global Games with Strategic Complementarities
Work Experience
Supply Chain Analysis Graduate Research Assistant 2025--2026
Super-Cascode for High Voltage MMC Modules Project, Sandia National Labs
- Conducted market analysis for high-voltage power electronics
- Produced silicon-carbide semiconductor supply chain reports
Research Analyst 2025--2026
Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida
- Developing AI tools for macroeconomic analysis using GTAP
- Analyzing data center impacts on rural electricity and water systems
NSF Funded Research Fellow 2023--2026
BIAS-NRT: Detecting and Addressing Bias in Data, Humans, and Institutions
- Fellowship for bias detection in data and institutions
- LLM-based commodity forecasting research
- PhD coursework in AI, NLP, computer vision, and databases
Graduate Research Assistant Summer 2023--May 2024
Spellman High Voltage Power Electronics Lab
- Developed data-driven tools to study impact of HVDC on electricity prices and consumer welfare in New York area
- Interdisciplinary research on econo-technical facets of offshore wind
- Supervisors: Fang Luo and Yiyi Zhou
Graduate Research Assistant 2023
Eva Carceles-Poveda, Stony Brook University
- Research on the impact of dividend tax progressivity on shareholder disagreement
- Analyzed Compustat and WRDS data with Python and Stata
Data Scientist Intern May--Aug 2023
Department of Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
- Causal inference on fiscal data (electricity markets, rural broadband) using USAspending API
- Developed Python automation for federal spending data
- Co-authored monthly stakeholder reports
Economist Intern June--July 2023
USDA Economic Research Service
- Created data visualizations related to the potato industry and usage of common pesticides and fertilizers
Writing Center Tutor 2022--2024
Stony Brook Writing Center
Economist Intern Summer 2022
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Built R Shiny dashboard for natural gas/electricity market anomaly detection
- Implemented ML algorithms (isolation forest, PCA, SVM, decision trees) for market surveillance
- Developed auto-updating ARIMA forecasting for electricity contracts
Agricultural Economist Sep 2019--July 2021
USDA Economic Research Service
- Published oil crops and season average price data; contributed to WASDE and oilseeds/wheat outlook reports
- Designed and implemented state trade data product and associated database
- Led division-wide SQL and machine learning trainings
Microeconomics PhD Tutor 2022--2023
Stony Brook Economics Department
Graduate Research Assistant Winter 2021
Economics at Stony Brook Diversity Fellowship
Peer Tutor 2017--2019
Georgia Tech Athletic Association
Financial Management Student Intern Summer 2017
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Conference Presentations
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC) · Rising Stars Session, 2026
- Investment and the Transfer of Power: Dynamic Effects of Transmission in Electricity Markets.
Midwest Economics Association, 2026
- Investment and the Transfer of Power: Dynamic Effects of Transmission in Electricity Markets.
Missouri Valley Economics Association, 2025
- Investment and the Transfer of Power: Dynamic Effects of Transmission in Electricity Markets.
Society of Economic Dynamics · Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2025
- Non-Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement.
Southern Agricultural Economics Association · Irving, Texas, February 2025
- Commodity Markets LLM-based Futures Forecasting.
BRIDGES Poster Conference · Stony Brook, New York, January 2025
Midwest Macro · Richmond, Virginia, May 2024
- Non-Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement.
Economics and Computing · New Haven, Connecticut, July 2024
- Transformers but not the Kind You're Thinking of: Commodity Market Forecasting using Natural Language Processing. (Poster)
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association · Kansas City, Missouri, July 2020
Invited Presentations
Argonne National Labs, 2026
Non-academic Publications
Invited Book Chapter for Green AI: Marketcraft for AI: Designing a Better Market for Memory, Compute, and Intelligence
Government & Industry Publications
Comparative Study & Networked Benchmarking of Power Electronics Architectures for HVDC OSW Energy Integration
Oil Crops Outlook Report
Wheat Outlook Report
Teaching
| Course | Role | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Computational Methods in Economics | Teaching Assistant | Spring 2026 |
| Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | Instructor | Fall 2025 |
| Data Science and Machine Learning | Instructor | Summer 2025 |
| Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources | Instructor | Winter 2025 |
| Economics and Sustainability | Instructor | Fall 2023 |
| Economics and Sustainability | Instructor | Spring 2023 |
Teaching Assistant Work
| Course | Term |
|---|---|
| Data Science and Machine Learning | Summer 2024 |
| Econometrics (graduate) | Spring 2023 |
| Mathematical Statistics (graduate) | Fall 2022 |
| Introduction to Economics | Fall 2021--Spring 2022 |
| Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Human Values | Spring 2019 |
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
OVPR Seed Grant (with Eva Carceles-Poveda and Ria Rajiv Shah) $40,000
Stony Brook University Office of Proposal Development, 2024--2025 · Announcement
Department of Economics Diversity Fellowship $75,000
Stony Brook University Economics, 2021--2026 · Announcement
President's Scholarship $10,000
Georgia Tech Economics, 2016--2020
Dean's Scholarship $8,000
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, 2016--2020
USGIF Scholarship Winner $2,000
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, 2016
Zell Miller Scholarship Full Tuition
State of Georgia, 2016--2020
Skills
Programming & Scripting
- Python (NumPy, Pandas, GeoPandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Julia, R, Matlab, Stata, SQL (PostgreSQL/BigQuery)
- Scala, Dask, PySpark / Spark SQL
- Fortran & CUDA accelerated JAX
- JavaScript (D3/Plotly) & Tableau
Machine Learning / AI
- Supervised & unsupervised ML (Isolation Forest, PCA, SVM; ARIMA/LSTM time series)
- Reinforcement Learning (RLlib, Gym, deep Q-learning)
- Transformers, Computer vision & LLM fine tuning (HuggingFace, LoRA/PEFT, OpenCV, NLTK)
Service & Leadership
- AERE at SEA, Reviewer, 2026
- IEEE Access, Reviewer, 2025
- Graduate Student Organization, Economics Senator, 2021--2025
- Graduate Student Organization, Chair of Board of Appeals, 2022--2023
- Stony Brook University Game Theory Conference, Volunteer, 2024
- Economics Graduate Student Departmental Grievance Committee, Student Representative, 2022--2023
- Books Not Bombs, Tutor, 2020--2021
- AEA LGBT Mentoring Program, Mentor, 2020--2021
- Georgia Tech and Archer High School Debate Teams, Debate Judge, 2017--2022
- Pipeline Project, Mentor, 2019