Instructor of Record
LSU New Orleans, Department of Economics and Finance
New Orleans, LA
- Principles of Macroeconomics, undergraduate, face to face, Fall 2026.
- Investments (FIN 3302), undergraduate, online, Summer 2026.
Professional Experience
Teaching at LSU New Orleans and Texas Tech, research positions in the United States and Bangladesh, and current research collaborations.
Teaching
Jun 2026 to Present
Tutorial Instructor
LSU New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
- Operations Management tutorial sessions, face to face, Summer 2026.
- EMBA Business Statistics tutorial sessions, face to face, Spring 2023.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
- Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.
- Data Science, online.
Research
Graduate Research Assistant
Division of Business and Economic Research (DBER), LSU New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Research on the transition of U.S. tourism, database dynamics, and impact analysis using big data.
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Research on the transition of U.S. agriculture, the dynamics of consumer tastes, the growth of dollar stores, and event analysis using big data. Supported by a Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantship.
Research Fellow
Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wrote annual project reports and policy briefs.
Senior Research Associate
Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wrote the annual project report and brief for the PRI-Kivu project on Mobilizing Tax in Bangladesh.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
WorldFish Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Designed and ran monitoring and evaluation for the Artemia for Bangladesh project, including a baseline survey of 400 salt farmers in coastal Bangladesh, and helped prepare quarterly and annual progress reports.
Research Associate
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Industrial Division
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Prepared proposals, reports and financial plans, managed project budgets and forecasts, and analyzed survey and administrative data in Stata and R.
Research Assistant
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Research using survey data.
Research Collaborations
Dr. Kazi Iqbal
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
Md Nahid Ferdous Pabon
PhD Student (Applied Economics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. Kabir Hassan
LSU New Orleans
Subsidies and insider activity, bank crash risk, HTM losses, depositor discipline, reinforcement learning, LLMs and q-theory
José A. Pérez-Amuedo
Marquette University
Subsidies and insider activity, bank crash risk, HTM losses, depositor discipline, analyst disagreement
M. M. Ferdaus
LSU New Orleans
Reinforcement learning in finance, LLMs and q-theory, bank crash risk
L. Pezzo
LSU New Orleans
CEO insider trading, bank crash risk
Neil Maroney
LSU New Orleans
Earnings calls and the 10-K
Imtiaz Sifat
Radboud University
Analyst consensus and roster turnover
Misak Avetisyan
Texas Tech University
Fuel efficiency, trade and emissions (GTAP); supply chain shocks and food security