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Suraj R Nair
I am a fourth year PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. I am advised by Joshua Blumenstock, and a fellow at the Global Policy Lab. I am supported by a Berkeley Fellowship, and a Digital Transformation of Development Fellowship (2022-23).
My research interests lie at the intersection of development economics and machine learning, with a focus on the use of novel data and methods to study pressing issues in global development.
Before coming to UC Berkeley, I was a research manager at IFMR LEAD
and a research assistant for Profs. Rohini Pande and Erica Field. I completed my MA in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where I was advised by Prof. Mathangi Krishnamurthy.
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In Progress
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Welfare Sensitive Machine Learning
with Simón Ramirez Amaya, Daniel Björkegren and Joshua E. Blumenstock
Presentation at Lab for Inclusive Financial Technology (LIFT)
Workshop paper accepted at PML4DC @ ICLR 2023
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Can Cash Transfers Create Sustained Financial Inclusion?
with Matthew Olckers and Joshua E. Blumenstock
Accepted for presentation at MeasureDev2022, and PacDev 2023
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Civil Conflict and Seasonal Labor Flows in Afghanistan
with Xiao Hui Tai, Shikhar Mehra and Joshua E. Blumenstock
Accepted for presentation at ESOC Latin America conference 2023
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Climate Change and Migration
with Guanghua Chi, Nicholas Depsky, Joshua E. Blumenstock and Solomon Hsiang
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Service/ Mentoring
COMPASS 2022: Program Committee
I School Applicant Feedback Program
PhD Student Representative: UC Berkeley School of Information, 2020 - 2021
Berkeley Undergraduate Research Assistant Program: 2020-present
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Code
CoefPlot: Visualize regression results in coefficient plots with tables.
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