Population Studies and Training Center

Sidharth is a Ph.D. student in Brown’s Economics Department. Previously, he worked as a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Microsoft Research’s Economics & Computation Group. Before that, he worked as a Data Analyst at One Drop and as an ML Intern for two summers at Lockheed Martin. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science.

Sidharth's research interests include both the drivers of technology and the impacts of modern technology on human decision-making. Current and past research that he's been involved with includes projects related to (i) how AI has affected jobs in the healthcare industry, (ii) the spread of misinformation in social networks, (iii) understanding how users respond to streaming-related ads on search engines, (iv) modeling biased belief formation in the presence of unique and repeated information, (vi) solving for equilibrium beliefs in a model of social networks with polarized users and platform moderation, and (vii) measuring labor turnover in markets with state-funded worker training grants.