I am a Ph.D. student in Data Science at HEC Montreal (the Business School of the University of Montreal). Before joining HEC, I received a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and an M.Sc. in Economics, both from the Sharif University of Technology. I had also been a research fellow in applied economics at the Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS) for four years.

Broadly speaking, I love to exploit data to solve practical issues that business people and policymakers face. My main research interests include applied econometrics, statistical and causal inference, and machine learning. I am particularly interested in issues relating to energy economics/policy and electricity markets.

I combine both reduced-form and structural approaches to answer research questions and employ techniques that span economics, mathematics, statistics, and data science.