Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
Talk, ECPR General Conference, Krakow, Poland
Examined how climate misinformation may exacerbate information asymmetry in political and economic decision-making around climate governance.
Talks and presentations
From Doctoral Training to Academic Leadership Invited Panel
Invited Panel, ISA Virtual Conference, Online
Reflected on the transition from doctoral training to academic leadership, emphasizing research identity, professional development, mentoring, and institutional contribution.
Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
Talk, ISA Virtual Conference, Online
Discussed how climate misinformation may reshape information asymmetry in international and comparative contexts by affecting trust, disclosure, and policy coordination.
Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
Talk, SASE General Conference, Bordeaux, France
Developed the argument that climate misinformation can distort information environments and intensify asymmetries relevant to economic governance and sustainable markets.
Does Climate Misinformation affect ESG Performance
Talk, EPSS Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Presented research on whether climate misinformation is associated with changes in firm-level ESG performance and sustainability-related market signals.
Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
Talk, Essex Sustainable Transitions Annual Conference (University of Essex), Colchester, United Kingdom
Explored how misleading climate information may widen information asymmetries between firms, investors, policymakers, and publics during sustainability transitions.
Neural SDEs for Finance and Asset Pricing
Talk, JARGON (University of Essex ISER Seminar), Colchester, United Kingdom
Outlined how neural stochastic differential equations can model uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, and continuous-time structure in finance and asset pricing applications.
SCAIRY BioYUFE Adaptation Invited Panel
Invited Panel, BioYUFE Webinar, Online
Discussed nature-based climate adaptation through an interdisciplinary lens, emphasizing how communication, local context, and misinformation shape public understanding of adaptation strategies.
Does Climate Misinformation Affect ESG Performance? Evidence from Social Media and Firm-Level Data
Talk, Climate, Finance, and Economic Sustainability Workshop (University of Leicester), Online
Discussed links between climate misinformation and ESG indicators at the Climate, Finance, and Economic Sustainability workshop.
Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
Talk, JARGON (University of Essex ISER Seminar), Colchester, United Kingdom
Examined how climate misinformation deepens information asymmetries during the JARGON internal seminar.
Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence Research: Attention, Transformers, Embeddings, and MLOps
Talk, HEROES (University of Essex Department of Government Seminar), Colchester, United Kingdom
I explain the core components and recent innovations behind modern large language models—including embeddings, transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, training pipelines, and MLOps—showing how these models are reshaping scientific discovery and political science research while outlining ongoing challenges in reasoning, alignment, compute efficiency, and long-context modeling.
Panel talk on Climate Misinformation
Talk, BioYUFE meeting (University of Essex Event), Colchester, United Kingdom and Online
Contributed to a panel on the drivers and impacts of climate misinformation at the BioYUFE meeting in Essex.
Does Climate Misinformation Affect ESG Performance? Evidence from Social Media and Firm-Level Data
Talk, EBS Research Conference (University of Essex Business School), Online
Presented empirical results on climate misinformation and ESG outcomes at the EBS Research Conference.
To What Extent Are Religious Political Actors Constrained by Political Neutrality?
Talk, ECPR General Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
Presented research on the boundaries of political neutrality for religious actors during the ECPR General Conference.
The Corrupting Effect of Climate Misinformation on both Markets and Policy Making
Talk, ClimateNLP Seminar,
Discussed how climate misinformation distorts market behavior and policy processes at the ClimateNLP Seminar.
Literature Gaps in Moral Contagion Theory
Talk, Oxford OCPSG internal presentation,
Surveyed outstanding research questions on moral contagion during an Oxford OCPSG internal presentation.
The Liberal Order in Complex Societies Marred by Climate Change: A Heterodox Liberalism for the Anthropocene
Talk, Association for Heterodox Economics General Conference, King's College London
Outlined a heterodox liberal response to climate challenges during the Association for Heterodox Economics General Conference in London.
Does Climate Misinformation Affect ESG Performance? Evidence from Social Media and Firm-Level Data
Talk, Sustainable Transitions Conference (Essex), Colchester, United Kingdom
Shared findings linking online climate misinformation to ESG performance metrics at the Sustainable Transitions Conference.
Frontier Methods in Political Methodology
Talk, HEROES (University of Essex Department of Government Seminar), Colchester, United Kingdom
Showcased new methodological tools for political science research at the HEROES internal seminar.
International Norms of Environmental Governance: The Prospect of Just Emissions in English School Political Economy
Talk, Department of Government Conflict/IR Seminar, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Presented my forthcoming paper to a group of faculty and PhD students at a departmental seminar for work in progress in the field of international relations.
International Norms of Environmental Governance
Talk, Conflict/IR Seminar (University of Essex Seminar), Colchester, United Kingdom
Delivered insights on emerging environmental governance norms at the Department of Government Conflict/IR Seminar.
Ecological Ethics and Religion
Talk, Science & Religion Forum General Conference, Online
Explored intersections between ecological ethics and religious thought at the Science & Religion Forum General Conference.
The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality
Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science , London, UK
Presented my work in progress MSc dissertation to a group of peers from the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE.
Newsflash on Climate Change Misinformation
Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science , London, UK
Presented a short intervention in the seminar for Kai Spiekermann’s class on the political philosophy of environmental change. Described the origins of misinformation as well as outlined which social and political communities are most vulnerable to misinformation.
Complex Environmental Systems
Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
An examination of the intersection between systems science and climate change, particularly from a political perspective. Presentation to Kai Spiekermann’s class on “The Political Philosophy of Environmental Change” at LSE.
Political Liberalism and Moral Pluralism
Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Presentation of my research proposal for my MSc dissertation. Feedback-based talk on Rawlsian liberal political theory and climate ethics.
Darwin and Natural Theology
Talk, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Talk given for Spring Term course, Life and Mind, on the Edinburgh MSc in Philosophy, Science and Religion. Based on the work of Leonard Lessius (1554-1623), T. H. Huxley, Richard Dawkins, and John Polkinghorne.
St. Augustine’s Confessions
Talk, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Presented a flash talk to the Harvard Extension School (HES) professional development reading group. Tutorial based on the life of St. Augustine and his lesser known work “Confessions.”
American Derivative Securities
Talk, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Presentation on US options pricing given to advanced PhD level class on Financial Econometrics. Talk based on Schreve’s “Stochastic Calculus for Finance II” book, Chapter 8.
Using Machine Learning for Macroeconomic Prediction
Talk, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Presentation given to UConn’s Economics Society, a student organization. I presented results from a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) methodology applied to a large macroeconomic dataset, FRED-MD, from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.
Stabilizing Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World
Talk, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Group presentation for a collegiate competition judged by Federal Reserve economists and academics. My contribution was the modeling section of the talk, where I explained the exploratory analysis and PCA model results.
ESG Investing and Carbon Footprint Measurement
Talk, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Presentation was the culmination of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Social Innovation Internship programme (2017). After the completion of my internship at Veris Wealth Partners, an impact investing firm in Portsmouth, NH, I showcased my contributions to the firm’s impact report and answered questions fielded from an academic audience as a group with other interns from different placements.