Born and raised in Kolkata, India, I enrolled at Purdue University in 2017. Four years later I received my BA in Political Science and BSc in Psychology, with minors in English, Philosophy, and Human Rights and a certificate in Public Policy. In my undergrad, I was a recipient of the Purdue Indian Emerging Scholar Fund and was inducted into the National Residence Hall Honorary. Further, I received my MA in Political Science from Purdue in 2023, before continuing my PhD journey.
Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Purdue where I am the lab manager for the Joe and Maggie Kernan Experimental Social Science Lab. In that capacity, I organise monthly research meetings, apply for research grants, and aid in the implementation of an inter-departmental omnibus survey experiment involving an undergraduate subject pool. Prior to this, I was the founding Research Fellow for the Law and Conflict Research Lab directed by Dr. Liana Eustacia Reyes, wherein I assisted a large quantitative data collection project involving incumbent-rebel conflict. For this, I trained undergraduate research assistants, and conducted weekly workshops introducing them to different components of social scientific research, which I enjoyed thoroughly. Further, I am affiliated with the Computational Social Science Lab.
I am passionate about pursuing theoretically driven and methodologically precise research projects. As a result of the classes I have taken at Purdue and outside, I have built a wholistic expertise in research methodology that I continue to expand upon. My skills cover a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, such as causal and inferential statistical analyses, survey and behavioral experiments, text analysis, qualitative coding and interviews. Outside the department, I have advanced quantitative research methodology training from ICPSR at University of Michigan and survey methods training from Summer School in International Survey Methods at Vanderbilt University.
Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Purdue where I am the lab manager for the Joe and Maggie Kernan Experimental Social Science Lab. In that capacity, I organise monthly research meetings, apply for research grants, and aid in the implementation of an inter-departmental omnibus survey experiment involving an undergraduate subject pool. Prior to this, I was the founding Research Fellow for the Law and Conflict Research Lab directed by Dr. Liana Eustacia Reyes, wherein I assisted a large quantitative data collection project involving incumbent-rebel conflict. For this, I trained undergraduate research assistants, and conducted weekly workshops introducing them to different components of social scientific research, which I enjoyed thoroughly. Further, I am affiliated with the Computational Social Science Lab.
I am passionate about pursuing theoretically driven and methodologically precise research projects. As a result of the classes I have taken at Purdue and outside, I have built a wholistic expertise in research methodology that I continue to expand upon. My skills cover a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, such as causal and inferential statistical analyses, survey and behavioral experiments, text analysis, qualitative coding and interviews. Outside the department, I have advanced quantitative research methodology training from ICPSR at University of Michigan and survey methods training from Summer School in International Survey Methods at Vanderbilt University.
