Skills & Projects

7+ years of research and analytical experience spanning survey methodology, statistical programming, and Indian economic policy.
Professional

Skills & Projects

7+ years of research and analytical experience spanning survey methodology, statistical programming, and Indian economic policy.

Work History

Professional Experience

Research positions across academia, policy institutes, and independent consulting.

Field Surveryor β€” Health Financing Survey
OP Jindal Global University
2025
  • Designed ODK/SurveyCTO digital data collection instruments for household health expenditure survey
  • Trained and supervised field enumerators; implemented CAPI quality assurance protocols
  • Cleaned, validated, and analysed multi-wave survey data using R (data.table, tidyverse)
  • Produced statistical reports and visualisations for research team and funding stakeholders
ODKRSurvey
Course Assistant
IDEAs Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy
2022 – 2024
  • Advanced coursework in political economy, development economics, and quantitative methods
  • Original research papers on Indian labour markets and fiscal policy
  • Applied regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences to policy evaluation
EconometricsPolicy Analysis
Research Assistant
Society for Social and Economic Research (SSER)
2018 – 2022
  • Coordinated large-scale household surveys across multiple Indian states
  • Managed field operations, enumerator networks, and real-time data quality monitoring
  • Developed sampling frameworks using stratified random and PPS methods
  • Processed and analysed NSS/PLFS microdata for published research outputs
SurveySamplingPLFS / NSS
Independent Economic Researcher & Data Analyst
Freelance / Self-employed
2024 – Present
  • Data analysis, statistical programming, and survey research for academic and policy clients
  • Reproducible R and Quarto pipelines delivered across diverse research contexts
  • Data journalism articles and interactive dashboards on Indian economic topics
  • Open-source R tools on GitHub: TidyTuesday visualisations, Shiny apps, and Quarto books
RQuartoFreelance

Projects

Freelance

Research Services

Available for consulting across survey research, data analysis, and reproducible reporting.

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Field Survey Management

End-to-end survey design, enumerator training, ODK/SurveyCTO form development, field monitoring, and quality assurance for primary data collection.

ODKSurveyCTOCAPI
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Statistical Analysis

Descriptive and inferential statistics, econometric modelling, regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and causal inference using R or Python.

RPythonEconometrics
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Data Visualization & Reporting

Publication-quality static charts, interactive ggiraph dashboards, and Quarto multi-format reports for academic and policy audiences.

ggplot2ShinyQuarto
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Web Scraping & Data Pipelines

Automated data collection from government portals and public databases using Python Selenium, rvest, and Linux/Bash automation scripts.

SeleniumrvestBash