I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. My research interests lie in the intersection of applied microeconomics and big data. I am particularly interested in predicting economic activity through data collected from social media. I am also interested in studying how humans adapt and react to climate change.

I was previously an Adjunct Professor in microeconomics at Baruch College as well as Research Fellow for Lev Manovich at the Cultural Analytics Lab. I also served as Visiting Faculty at Strelka Institute for The New Normal postgraduate program and as a Junior Professional Associate at The World Bank. I have been a consultant at IBM and The World Bank.

News:

• New working paper, together with Francesc Ortega, where we show that population in high-risk counties in the US have grown disproportionately over the last few decades, even relative to the corresponding commuting zone.
• Our research on migration and natural hazards was highlighted in this newspaper article.
• My research on estimating GDP using Twitter data was covered in The Economist.