Curriculum Vitae

Education, research appointments, honors, skills, and service.

Curriculum vitae

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Education

Degrees

• 2025 – present Ph.D., Agricultural Economics. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
• 2023 – 2025 M.S., Agricultural Economics. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. Thesis: economic feasibility of wine grape cultivation in Oklahoma.
• 2018 – 2022 B.Sc., Agriculture. Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal.
• 2015 – 2017 High School. Times International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Experience

Research appointments

Graduate Research Assistant, Ph.D. level

Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University · August 2025 – Present

• Research climate–yield modeling using interpolated weather predictors: temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture.
• Develop a hierarchical spatial errors-in-variables model (HSEVM) that jointly estimates interpolation surfaces with county-level yield regressions.
• Diagnose the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) and spatial support misalignment between stations and counties; quantify bias through simulation study.
• Implement kriging and INLA-based approximate Bayesian inference; build reproducible R workflows covering data, modeling, diagnostics, and visualization.
• Prepare manuscripts and conference submissions; manage Oklahoma weather and yield datasets with version control and replication files.

Graduate Research Assistant, Master’s level

Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University · August 2023 – May 2025

• Reviewed literature on the wine industry in Oklahoma.
• Conducted research on the financial feasibility of vine production in Oklahoma.
• Thesis: economic feasibility of wine grape cultivation in Oklahoma.

Recognition

Honors and awards

• 2026Williams Endowed Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (DGF), Ferguson College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University.
• 2026Stoecker Family International Agricultural Economics Scholarship, Ferguson College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University.
• 2025Stoecker International Agricultural Economics Fellowship, OSU Ferguson College of Agriculture.
• 2025Shepherd Family Memorial Endowed Scholarship, OSU Ferguson College of Agriculture.
• 2025Williams Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (DGF), Ferguson College of Agriculture.
• 2024Spielman Scholarship, Oklahoma State University.
• 2024Leo and Betty Blakley Graduate Fellowship, Oklahoma State University.
• 2023Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University (Master's level).
• 2021International Scientist Award (Emerging Scientist Award).
• 2018Merit-based Scholarship for B.Sc. in Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal.
• 2018Semifinalist, Asian-level Nobel Quiz Mania.
• 2017Full Scholarship, Times International College (Higher Secondary Education).
• 2016/17Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship Scheme.

Toolkit

Skills

• ProgrammingSTATA, SAS, R, Python, LaTeX, SPSS — econometric and statistical modeling.
• GISArcGIS — spatial data processing and analysis.
• OtherData coding and analysis, statistical modeling, research design.

Service

Peer review activity

• 2026Reviewer, Discover Agriculture (Springer Nature portfolio).
• 2026Recognized for contribution to peer review of one manuscript (Reviewer Certificate, Springer Nature).

References

References

• Doctoral advisorDayton Lambert, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University. dayton.lambert@okstate.edu
• Master's advisorCourtney Bir, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University. courtney.bir@okstate.edu

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