I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As an applied microeconomist, I specialize in health and public economics, with a growing research agenda in urban and environmental economics. I study how policies, environmental shocks, and technological change shape health outcomes, healthcare access, and public safety. My research has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and the American Economic Review: Insights. 

I currently teach Health Economics & Policy and Economic Data Analysis & Applications, primarily at the undergraduate level. I have also taught Econometric Methods for Big Data and a PhD-level course in Health Economics & Policy.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Economics, with a minor in Statistics, from Swarthmore College.