Policy Writing (Op-eds and Technical Reports)

  1. “Quantum Futures: International Development and the Quantum Computing Transition,” with Bhasi Nair (USAID, August 2023)

    Executive Summary

  2. "Science’s new frontier," with Aaron F. Mertz (Science, March 5 2021)

Coverage: [Science Editor's Blog] [LA Weekly Podcast]

Science and Technology Policy Research

  1. “Do Robots Cause Deaths of Despair?” with Sharon Nafuna and Essosolim Apollinaire. [Working Paper]

  2. “AI Alignment and Social Choice: Fundamental Limitations and Policy Implications” [arxiv:2310.16048, SSRN]

  3. “Improving Math and Science Skills in Contexts of Low Teacher Capacity: Experimental Evidence from India,“ with Alejandro Ganimian and Issac Mbiti (Northeastern Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, Harvard University, 2023) [Working Paper]

  4. “Measuring Carbon: A Tool for Analysing Gridded, Continuous, Carbon Measurements at High Temporal and Spatial Resolution,” with Mitchell Odhiambo, Raunaq Jain, Nikita Kaushal, and Yash Gorana (EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15643)

  5. “Measuring the Carbon Footprint from Wildfires and Crop Burning Using Satellite Data,” with Raunaq Jain, Mitchell Odhiambo, Nikita Kaushal, and Yash Gorana (EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15493)

  6. “Who Decides if AI is Fair? The Labels Problem in Algorithmic Auditing,” with Yash Gorana (NeurIPS 2021 Data-Centric AI Workshop)

  7. "Decarbonization Through Digital Agriculture: A Framework," (Current Draft, September 2020)

  8. "Improving STEM Education in Low-Resource Settings: Experimental Evidence from India," (Current Draft, December 2019)

Astrophysics and Cosmology Research

1. "Detecting Primordial Gravitational Waves With Circular Polarization of the Redshifted 21cm Line- Formalism," with Chris Hirata (Phys. Rev. D 97, 103521, 2018) [arxiv:1707.03513 ]

2. "Detecting Primordial Gravitational Waves With Circular Polarization of the Redshifted 21cm Line: Forecasts," with Chris Hirata (Phys. Rev. D 97, 103522, 2018) [arxiv:1707.03514]

3. "A new probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch: I. Formalism," with Tejaswi Venumadhav, Vera Gluscevic, Antonija Oklopčić, and Chris Hirata (Phys. Rev. D 95, 083010, 2017) [arxiv: 1410.2250]

4. "A new probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch: II. Detectability," with Vera Gluscevic, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Antonija Oklopčić, and Chris Hirata (Phys. Rev. D 95, 083011, 2017) [arxiv:1604.06327]

5. "Inflationary Freedom and Cosmological Neutrino Constraints," with Roland de Putter and Eric Linder (Phys. Rev. D 89, 103502, 2014) [arxiv:1401.7022]