CV
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EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles, PhD in Comparative Politics and Government expected 2020
Topic: “Political Economy of Technological Development”
Committee: Prof. Daniel Treisman (chair)
Prof. Chad Hazlett, Prof. Daniel Posner, Prof. Nico Voigtlander (Anderson School of Business)
University of California, Los Angeles, MS in Statistics expected 2020
University of Maryland, College Park, Graduate coursework required for PhD in Economics 2012-2014
Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Ph.D. (kandidat) in Economics 2011
Kazan Federal University, Kazan BA in Economics (with Honors) 2010
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, UCLA 2019-2020, 2014-16
Teaching Fellow, Anderson School of Business, UCLA 2019
Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, UCLA 2016-18
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Institutions and Development,
Higher School of Economics, Moscow 2013-14
Lecturer, Economics Department, Kazan National Technological Research University 2010-12
PUBLICATIONS
“Technological Foundations of Political Instability” in European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 2-20 (with Dmitry Dagaev and Anton Sobolev)
“Economic Transition and the Rise of Alternative Institutions: Political Connections in Putin’s Russia” in Economics of Transition, 2018, Volume 26(4),615–648
“The Role of Business in Shaping Economic Policy.” in The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia, 2018, 249-276, Brookings Institution Press (with Konstantin Sonin)
“Putin’s Strategy After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-9” in Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Financial Conditions, and Institutions, 2020, University of Michigan Press, (with Daniel Treisman)
CURRENT RESEARCH
“The Puzzling Politics of R&D: Signaling Competence through Risky Projects” R&R at the Journal of Comparative Economics
“The Puzzling Politics of R&D: Growing “Lemons” in the Market for Technology”
“The Puzzling Politics of R&D: innovation and political connections”
Measure for Measure: Using Events Data to Characterize Relationships in Networks
“Leaderless Protests?” (with Dmitry Dagaev, Anton Sobolev, and Konstantin Sonin)
GRANTS
External (while at UCLA)
IHS 2020 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship \hfill 2020
Institute for Humane Studies, New York, Research Grant \hfill 2019
The Harriman Institute, New York, Travel Grant \hfill 2018, 2019
Charles Koch Graduate Student Grant \hfill 2018
The Harriman Institute, New York, Research Grant \hfill 2018
Institute for Humane Studies, New York, Hayek Grant \hfill 2018, 2019, 2020
Institute for Humane Studies, Arlington, PhD Fellowship \hfill 2015,2017,2018
External
The grant of President of Tatarstan for the outstanding graduate research 2012
Global Development Network CIS Department Development Grant 2012
Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship 2011
“Algarysh” grant of Tatarstan Republic to study in Washington University in St. Louis with full tuition coverage and stipend 2008-2009
Internal (at UCLA)
Dissertation Year Fellowship 2019
Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Center for European and Russian Studies 2019
Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Center for European and Russian Studies 2018
UCLA Fellowship 2014
UCLA Dean’s Stipend 2014
PRESENTATIONS
Invited talk at UCLA Computational International Relations Workshop (2020), ASSA (2020), Joint Seminar of Higher School of Economics on Political Economy, ICSID and NES CSDSI (2019),Invited talk at IHS Graduate Workshop at George Mason University (2019),7th Annual Comparative Politics and Formal Theory Conference (2019),Geo-Economic and Geostrategic Dimensions of Great Power Competition in the 21st Century” Summer Training Course (2019), WPSA (2019), APSA (2018, 2016, 2014), MPSA (2019,2018, 2017, 2016, 2014), International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development Conference, Higher School of Economics (2019, 2018), European Economic Association Annual Conference (2015), April International Academic Conference On Economic and Social Development (2013, 2012, 2010, 2011), Moscow Higher School of Economics (2014), UCLA (2014,2015,2016)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson Business School
Technology Analytics, with Prof. Keith Chen
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Political Science
Politics and Government of Post-Communist Russia, with Prof. Daniel Treisman
Politics and Strategy with Prof. Barry O’Neil and Prof. Kathleen Bawn
Experiments and Research Design with Prof. Graeme Blair
Peace and War, with Prof. Daborah Larson
World Politics, with Prof. Leslie Johns
University of Maryland, Department of Economics
Principles of Micro-Economics, with Prof. John Straub
Principles of Micro-Economics, with Prof. Naveen Sarna
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, with Prof.
John Neri
SERVICE
Methods Workshops at Economics Department, Kazan National Research Technological University:
Causal Inference Workshop 2019
R Workshop 2018, 2019
Game Theory Workshop 2018
Manuscript Referee: PLOS ONE, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, American Political Science Review
SKILLS
SOFTWARE: R (keras, selenium, rvest, tm, ggplot2, tidyverse, sp, raster,daggity,gis),
Stata, SPSS, \LaTeX
DATA COLLECTION: automated data extraction, automated text processing,
online and field experiments, surveys, interviews
References
Prof. Daniel Treisman (chair of the dissertation committee), Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 4289 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472, treisman@polisci.ucla.edu
Prof. Chad Hazlett, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 3264 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472, chazlett@ucla.edu
Prof. Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago,ksonin@uchicago.edu