I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at FLAME University, Pune, India. My research applies economic complexity and network science methods to labour markets, with a focus on skill structure, informality, and occupational mobility in the Global South. I study how skills depend on one another, how these dependencies shape wages and career paths, and whether the structures observed in advanced economies hold in contexts where the majority of workers are informally employed.

Current projects include constructing city-level industry spaces for Indian cities using complexity methods (RCA, proximity, density), investigating AI exposure across formal and informal occupations, and analysing skill specialisation and earnings resilience on digital labour platforms. I work with large-scale microdata (India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey, Brazil’s RAIS) and NLP-based approaches to occupation and task analysis.

I am a 2025 Senior Fellow of the ILO’s AI-Enabled Innovation programme and was selected for the 2026 CSH Winter School on Complexity Science. I have previously held positions at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore), the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), and CHRIST University, Lavasa-Pune.

When not working, I am an avid reader of nonfiction — anything from mathematics and physics to AI and beyond. I love watching world cinema, am addicted to chess, and love watching tennis, football, and test cricket.