Core Team Members
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University. Her Ph.D. and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on caste and gender in India...
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Director
ashwini.deshpande@ashoka.edu.in
Kanika Mahajan is Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. Her primary research interests include empirical development economics in the field of gender, labor and agriculture. As part of her research agenda on gender and labor, she is currently working on issues around stagnation of women's labor force participation in urban India and decline in female employment in rural areas - exploring both the supply and...
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Member
kanika.mahajan@ashoka.edu.in
Ritadhi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. His primary research interests are in development economics and political economy and his current research focuses on the intersection of development and finance....
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Member
sk.ritadhi@ashoka.edu.inAdvisory Committee
Subhashis Banerjee is currently Head of the Department, Computer Science at Ashoka University,
Subhashis Banerjee
Member, Advisory Committee
(2022-)
Manu Awasthi is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University and prior to that he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar
Manu Awasthi
Member, Advisory Committee
(2022-)
Ratul Lahkar has joined as Professor of Economics at Ashoka University in August
Ratul Lahkar
Head, Department of Economics Member, Advisory Committee
(2020-)
Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
mayukh.nair@ashoka.edu.inMayukh serves as the Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Parth Athley
Data Manager
parth.athley@ashoka.edu.inParth serves as a Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Kaustav Dutta
Data Manager
kaustav.dutta@ashoka.edu.inKaustav serves as the Deputy Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
mayukh.nair@ashoka.edu.inMayukh serves as a Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Mayukh graduated from Ashoka University in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science and interests in data analytics, user experience, machine learning and more recently, DevOps.
When not glued to the code editor or console, Mayukh enjoys travelling, reading non-fiction and long form articles, exploring new spots and restaurants, and quizzing.
Parth Athley
Data Manager
parth.athley@ashoka.edu.inParth graduated from Ashoka University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Computer Science. His interests are web development, reading genre fiction and travelling.
Kaustav Dutta
Data Manager
kaustav.dutta@ashoka.edu.inKaustav serves as a Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Kaustav graduated from Ashoka University with a Master's degree in Economics and holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. He is particularly interested in machine learning, sports analytics and visualization.
He would never leave an opportunity to participate in music sessions and sports.
Interns
Soumil Agarwal
Winter 2021
Gaurav Manchanda
Winter 2021
Ujjawal Bhaskar
Winter 2021
Vivaan Gupta
Summer 2021
Vibhav Khandelwal
Winter 2021
Sejal Yadav
Summer 2021
Tanish Bafna
Summer 2021
Satyakin Kohli
Summer 2021
Sagara Ann Johny
Summer 2021
Ishaan Bansal
Summer 2020
Astha Wagle
Summer 2020
Daksh Walia
Summer 2020
