Students & mentorship

Where my students have gone

A central goal of my lab is to launch students into the world's strongest research environments. My students and research assistants have secured MS and PhD admissions, many of them funded, at institutions including:

In industry, my students and RAs have gone on to Amazon, Unilever, Educative, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, AmaliTech, the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, and Techlogix, among others. Over the years I have written more than 90 letters of recommendation for them.

How my lab works

I have built a peer-support hierarchy so that mentorship scales: undergraduates interested in a senior project first take one of my courses and complete a semester-long research project, reporting to my PhD students and RAs, who in turn report to me. This lets students hit the ground running and produce real outcomes, and I expect every advisee either to submit their work for publication or to release it publicly as a product. Beyond formal supervision, I have advised two PhD and seventeen MS-thesis students, co-advised others, served on the evaluation committees of dozens of PhD and MS candidates, and mentored more than 130 undergraduates through internships and directed research, including, recently, A-level students exploring research early.

Career counseling for all

I keep an open-door policy and meet students from across LUMS and beyond to understand their goals and help them get there, supporting them with personal statements, applications, and funding strategy. I also created Reflections, a public video playlist where I and guest speakers from industry and academia discuss graduate study, building and breaking habits, managing semester stress, and more.