I completed my Ph.D. in economics at Florida State University in the summer of 2011. I'm currently a visiting assistant professor in the political science department at Duke University. My current research interest is how economic and poltical institutions impact the poor in the developing world. Other ares of interest are public choice and financial and monetary economics.

I have a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University. Before life as an economist I worked in the San Francisco Bay Area at various engineering firms - Trimble Navigation, Stanford Telecom/Newbridge Networks/Alcatel (yes, we were bought out twice!), nBand Communications, and ECM.