CV

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2026–Present
B.S. in Economics and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2024

Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (06/2024–06/2026)
- Collaborated with the Consumer Credit Panel team to analyze trends in consumer debt and defaults.
- Contributed to the production of the NYFRB Household Debt and Credit Report, a widely cited quarterly publication that informs policymakers, researchers, and the public on the state of household financial health.
- Supported the development of internal briefings for the FOMC cycle.
- Assisted with a project using modern machine learning techniques to predict future Alzheimer’s diagnosis using a combination of Medicare and credit bureau data.
Research Assistant, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (06/2022–09/2023)
- Worked with Dr. Luigi Zingales and the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State on a project investigating economists as expert witnesses in antitrust litigation.
- Managed and maintained a MongoDB database, ensuring optimal performance and data integrity.
- Developed classifiers using NLP techniques, including BERT and GPT-3, to identify pro-business outcomes in US court cases.

Student Mentor, Carnegie Mellon Moneythink (08/2021–12/2021, 08/2022–12/2022)
- Worked with a group of other CMU students to teach a class of 22 high school students about making informed immediate and long-term financial decisions and building financial wellness habits.

Languages and Tools: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, C, R, SQL, Stata, MongoDB, Tableau
Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Building and fine-tuning models including GPT, BERT, and Ollama
Data Engineering: Dask, Pandas, Arrow, and Parquet for large-scale data wrangling and pipeline construction
Natural Language Processing: Designed and deployed NLP pipelines using transformer models for classification, summarization, and embedding generation on millions of text records across legal and economic domains
Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, Domino Enterprise; Agile research workflows