Welcome to my website! I am a PhD student specializing in Public Policy. School of Public Policy at George Mason University has decided to give me freedom and comfort to pusue a doctoral research in area of my interest.
While I remain seated in a room where I can control the temperature upto a decimal degree, I have decided to explore rather harder living conditions in cities in developing countries. My area of research is to understand slum formations. If you hate to read about it, come over for a coffee (or tea if you are my colonial cousin) and we can discuss it in detail. If we enter into a deabte and can't come to a conclusion, we can go to one of these three individuals to see if they can conclude the debate - Dr. Roger Stough, Dr. Naoru Koizumi, Dr. Andrew Crooks - my awsome dissertation committee.
Of course, my long term interest is not limited to sectoral issues but also extends to a broad theme: integration and fusion. Be it my effort to integrate Photography and Poetry in Haikushots or my effort to integrate Discrete Event Simulation, GIS and Agent-based Modeling for Slumulation. My long-term agenda is to apply advanced methods from developed world such as GIS, agent-based modeling (ABM) and simulation to problems in developing world especially concerning slums after appropriate adaptation. I believe that I am in a unique position to do this given my training and experience in both the worlds.
I am in fourth year of my PhD and I am towards tail-end of my graduation. Nonetheless, if you want me to offer a job and take a blame of throwing my research in a limbo with other ABDs, here is my CV! Of course, if you didn't mean to enter into an expensive affair, my hobbies are interesting and inexpensive - I don't charge for browsing through my photography or reading my poetry - no one does until they are published!