curriculum vitae

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Current Employment

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville, August 2020 — Present

Education

PhD. in Economics, Columbia University, conferred May 2018

Honors and Awards

• Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2017 —2018

• Columbia Experimental Lab for Social Sciences (CELSS) Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, Fall 2017

• CELSS Graduate Student Research Grant, Columbia University, Spring 2016

• CELSS Graduate Student Research Grant (with Ambuj Dewan), Columbia University, Fall 2015

• Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, 2014 — 2015

• CELSS Graduate Student Research Grant, Columbia University, Fall 2013

Previous Employment

• Lab Manager to the CELSS, Columbia University, 2013 — 2015 and 2016 — 2017

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Chapman University, August 2018-August 2020

Completed Papers

• “Estimating Information Cost Functions in Models of Rational Inattention” (with Ambuj Dewan)
  – Journal of Economic Theory

• “Vying for Dominance: An Experiment in Dynamic Network Formation”
  –Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• “Two Tractable Simplifications for a Dynamic Network Model”

• “Experimental Tests of Rational Inattention” (with Mark Dean)

  – Revision requested: Journal of Political Economy

• Rational Memory with Decay

Working Papers

• “A Minimum Offer Mechanism for Public Goods Provision”

• “Bayes vs. Skinner: Learning About Risk”

• “Adjustability and Rational Cognition”

• “Efficiency Bidding in Finite Games of Perfect Information”

• “Re-Encoding for Realistic Memory Models”

• “Group Formation Through Proposal and Consent”

Teaching Experience

• ECON 335 - Economics of Strategy, Fall 2020-Present

• ECON 611 - Topics in Theoretical and Applied, Fall 2021-Present

• Tutorial on zTree course each semester, Columbia University, 2014 — 2017

Selected Presentations

• Testing Rational Inattention, Ohio State University Seminar Series, Fall 2022

• Experiments on Rational Inattention, Virginia Tech Seminar Series, Spring 2022

• Rational Memory and Persuasion Through Timing of Information Release, Economic Science Association North America
  12 October 2019

• Rational Memory and Recency Bias in Voting, Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop (BABEEW)
  6 April 2019

• Exploring Rational Memory with Insurance-Purchasing Experiments, Chapman University Brown Bag
  3 April 2019

• Rational Memory and Recency Bias in Insurance Purchasing, Guest Lecture for Professor Juan Carillo, Graduate Experimental Methods, University of Southern California
  14 February 2019

• Rational Memory and the Forgetting Curve, Chapman University Brown Bag
  26 September 2018

Journal Refereeing

American Economic Review
Econometrica
Journal of Political Economy
The Review of Economic Studies
Experimental Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
The RAND Journal of Economics
Journal of Economic Theory
European Economic Review
Review of Economics and Statistics
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics