MSc Financial Economics
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Merit.
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Profile
I am an economist working on causal inference and policy evaluation. My interest is in how the effect of a programme varies across the people it reaches, rather than in the average alone, and in whether an estimate survives the checks that ought to be run against it.
I trained in economics at the University of Glasgow and at North South University in Dhaka. I am the designer and sole developer of Inferendum, a deployed causal inference tool, and I work remotely as Financial Management Officer for a non-profit in the United Kingdom.
I am looking for doctoral research in applied economics, with a focus on digital inclusion and broadband policy.
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Inferendum
A deterministic causal inference tool. It takes a dataset and answers whether a treatment caused a change, for whom, and whether that answer holds up. I designed, built and deployed it end to end.
The estimation path contains no language model. Same data in, same answer out, with the seed and package versions recorded alongside the result.
Estimation
- Doubly robust estimation of average effects, DML and AIPW, with cross-fitting
- Causal forests for conditional average treatment effects
- Benjamini-Hochberg correction and simultaneous confidence intervals
- Propensity score and overlap diagnostics
Trust
- Placebo and refutation tests
- E-value and Oster sensitivity bounds
- An explicit assumptions checklist
- A synthetic twin that rebuilds the data with an effect of known size, to confirm the pipeline recovers it
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Research and education
Interests
- Causal inference and causal machine learning in economics
- Digital inclusion and broadband policy
- Development economics
- Policy evaluation using econometric methods
Impact of the Internet on Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Master's dissertation, University of Glasgow. Supervisor: Dr Andrei Potlogea. Manuscript available on request.
- Analysed the relationship between internet penetration and economic outcomes in developing countries using cross-country panel data
- Applied pooled OLS, fixed-effects, random-effects and instrumental variable models
- Built a cross-country dataset from World Bank and digital infrastructure indicators
- Addressed endogeneity between internet adoption and GDP outcomes through an IV strategy
- Examined effects on GDP per capita levels and on growth rates across specifications
BSc Economics
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. CGPA 3.54 / 4.00, Cum Laude.
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Methods and tools
Causal inference
- Difference-in-differences
- Instrumental variables
- Panel fixed effects
- Doubly robust estimation, DML and AIPW
- Causal forests and conditional average treatment effects
- Propensity score and overlap diagnostics
Robustness and inference
- Placebo and refutation testing
- Sensitivity analysis, E-value and Oster bounds
- Multiple testing correction, Benjamini-Hochberg
- Simultaneous confidence intervals
- Calibration against synthetic data with known ground truth
Software
- Python: EconML, DoWhy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, pandas
- R
- Stata
Engineering
- Git and pytest
- Reproducible pipelines with seed and version provenance
- Streamlit
- Deployment
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Experience
Financial Management Officer
The Whithorn Trust, United Kingdom. Full-time, remote from Dhaka.
- Maintain the full financial ledger in QuickBooks Online: revenue and expenditure recording, reconciliation, month-end close
- Administer payroll for two dozen staff, including tax withholdings and statutory deductions
- Prepare management accounts and financial reports for trustees, supporting budgeting and planning decisions
- Prepare and file VAT returns, maintaining compliance with HMRC requirements
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies in the accounts ahead of external audit
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Writing
Essays and book reviews, published on Substack.
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Book One of George R. R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire
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Part Four: The Conclusion
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Part Three: My two favourite chapters
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Part Two: Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky's critique of the extraordinary man
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Part One: The Philosopher Novelist
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A few words to set the tone