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— recentJuly 2026Received the C. Rafiq Khan Scholarship (given to the international student in the School of Analytics, Finance, & Economics with highest CGPA) for the 2026–27 academic year.
June 2026Presented my working paper "Mobile Money Spillovers and Misallocation in Informal Risk Sharing" at the 101st Annual Conference of Western Economic Association International, Denver, Colorado.
April 2026Presented my working paper "Mobile Money Spillovers and Misallocation in Informal Risk Sharing" at the Spring 2026 Brown Bag Seminar, SIUC.
Mar 2026Updated CV posted. I'm on the 2026–27 academic job market.
Jan 2026Started as Instructor of Record for ECON 241 — Introduction to Macroeconomics at SIUC.
Dec 2025My paper titled "Fostering Sustainable Tourism through Digital Innovation and Green Tourism Initiatives in Bangladesh", with Sakib Amin, Farhan Khan, Bismi Iqbal, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, was published in Sustainable Futures.
June 2025Passed field exams in Development and International Economics. I am now officially a PhD candidate.
Dec 2024My paper titled "Renewable Energy Development in Bangladesh: The Role of Oil Price, Macroeconomic Factors and Policies", with Sakib Amin and Farhan Khan, was published in Energy Reports.
June 2024Passed PhD qualifying exam in micro and macro.