Current teaching

University of Texas at Dallas, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

• Innovation Economy — How ideas become market-ready products: patents, technology development, and commercialization (patent fundamentals, patent–market interface, hands-on patent search, market analysis, commercialization strategies, and innovation policy). Complimentary short courses on DataCamp are available for the coding component.

• Research Design II — Causal inference in settings where full randomization is impossible: experiments, matching, regression, panel methods, difference-in-differences, synthetic control, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and sensitivity analysis. Complimentary DataCamp short courses support the coding component.

• Topics in Science, Technology and Institutions: from Writing to Cryptocurrency — Introduction to the political economy of innovation across technologies, from writing to cryptocurrency: innovation and growth, intellectual property trade-offs, public funding, competition policy, and political incentives in innovation policy. Complimentary DataCamp short courses support the coding component.

Teaching experience

Georgia Institute of Technology, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

• Economics of International Security (Fall 2020; teaching award)

• Political Economy of Post-Communism (Spring 2021, Fall 2021; teaching award)

University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management

• Technology Analytics, with Prof. Keith Chen (2019)

• Competitive Analytics, with Prof. Keith Chen (2019)

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Political Science

• Politics and Government of Post-Communist Russia, with Prof. Daniel Treisman (2015–17)

• Experiments and Research Design, with Prof. Graeme Blair (2016)

• World Politics, with Prof. Leslie Johns (2015)

• Peace and War, with Prof. Deborah Larson (2018)

• Politics and Strategy, with Prof. Kathleen Bawn (2018)

• Politics and Strategy, with Prof. Barry O’Neill (2015)

University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Economics

• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, with Prof. John Neri (2013)

• Principles of Microeconomics, with Prof. John Straub (2014)

• Principles of Microeconomics, with Prof. Naveen Sarna (2014)

Kazan National Technological Research University, Kazan, Department of Economics

• Economics of Innovation, lecturer (2012)

• Economics of Intellectual Property Rights, lecturer (2012)

You can also find my articles on Google Scholar.