Education
2022 – 2024
MS in Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
GPA: 3.65
2018 – 2022
BA in Economics
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
GPA: 3.90
Experience
Aug 2025 - May 2026
Adjunct Instructor
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Instructed courses in Econometrics, Microeconomics, and Gender in the economy.
- Put together the curriculum and teaching materials for Econometric course.
- Delivered lectures on causal inference, regression analyses, and hypothesis testing for 50+ students.
- Integrated STATA into the curriculum to build student proficiency in data analysis and statistical software, ensuring practical technical competency in real-world applications.
- Designed rigorous problem sets and exams to evaluate quantitative reasoning and statistical literacy.
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025
Research Assistant
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Collaborated cross-functionally with 5+ researchers to revise manuscript titled “WASH and Women’s Empowerment in Haiti” based on peer reviewer feedback, securing a Revise & Resubmit (R&R) decision for actionable publication.
- Conducted comprehensive literature reviews to strengthen the theoretical and historical background and framework of the research paper.
Jan - May 2023
Research Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
- Enhanced the Kelly Criterion model to incorporate consumption factors beyond long-term capital growth maximization.
- Applied Python-based dynamic programming techniques to develop a model inspired by the Bellman equation for optimization.
May - Dec 2021
Student Researcher (Research Internship with PAC@REDI)
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Investigated the impacts of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) on women’s empowerment in Haiti.
- Conducted Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Data Wrangling on Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) microdata using STATA; synthesized existing literature for background research.
- Presented research findings and methodology at the Colorado State University International Symposium.
Publications
2025
WASH and Women’s Empowerment in Haiti
Brundage, B., Bernasek, A., Bhattarai, N., Thongngam, A., Nugroho, W. S. Sustainable Development, 2025.
2021
Exploring Economics Empowerment and Marginalization Using Data From Developing Countries.
Bernasek, A., Ngyuen, A., Pena, A. A., Thongngam, A., Sedai, A., Brundage, B., Mudenda, L., Bhattarai, N., Shakya, P., Miller, R., Nugroho, W. PAC@REDI: REDI Report, 2021.
Skills
Programming Languages
STATA, R, Python, LaTex, SQL
Software
Excel, Gretl, Tableau
Languages
Thai (Native), English (Fluent)