Taha Barwahwala

Taha Barwahwala is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia where he is exploring the effectiveness of advanced analytics and machine learning methods applied on administrative data to bolster the taxation capacity in the state of Punjab, India. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2020, he was a data engineer with the Enterprise Data & Analytics team at a private sector bank in India, responsible for working with the information technology and business intelligence teams to design, create and maintain big-data analytics and reporting processes of the bank.

Taha graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics with a minor in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.