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Ph.D, Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Master of Arts (M.A.), B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (B.A. Hons.), University of Delhi

Prof. (Dr.) Mukta Jain

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Email mukta.jain@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0009-0003-4683-1379
Key Expertise Poverty, Automation, Machine Learning and Macro-econometrics.

Ph.D, Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Master of Arts (M.A.), B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (B.A. Hons.), University of Delhi

Biography

Dr. Mukta Jain is a researcher in economics, interested in the domain of poverty, automation, machine learning and macro-econometrics. She is a Ph.D. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.  As a Commonwealth Split-Site Scholar, she conducted a part of her Ph.D. research at the University of Bath, England from 2024-25.

Situated at the intersection of economics, automation, and machine learning, her website provides further detail on her Ph.D. chapters and other research works.

Previously, she has worked as a Visiting Faculty in Ashoka University and Casual Teaching Assistant at the University of Bath. In her academic life, she has always been an academic merit scholarship holder and obtained a grant from RCS Bath in 2025 for carrying out her research works.

Mukta has collaborated with scholars in computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Wageningen University, Netherlands. Her work has been published at NeurIPS, a leading conference in computer science, as well as in a high-impact academic journal. 
 

Economics II

CDE Fellowship for Ph.D. Economics (2019-2024)

Academic Merit Scholarship (All Semesters) 2016-2018 in MA Economics

Academic Merit Scholarship and Award (All Years) 2013-2016 in B.A. Honours Economics

Predicting Vulnerability Status of Indian Households: A Machine Learning Model, Royal Commonwealth Society of Bath, 2025

Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship, University of Bath, 2024-25

Reviewer of 2 articles, Economic Modelling, 2025

Analyzing Micro-Level Rebound Effects of Energy Efficient Technologies

  • Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning: workshop at NeurIPS (2022) Online [Link]

Impact of Load Demand Dataset Characteristics on Clustering Validation Indices 

  • IEEE International Conference  - SEST (2021) Online [Link]

Automation, Impatience & Growth

  • Advanced Graduate Workshop - 2023 (Azim Premji University, Bangalore)
  • International Conference on New Technologies & the Future of Work in Global South - 2023 (Institute for Human Development, Delhi)

Predicting Vulnerability Status of Indian Households: A Machine Learning Model

  • Bath Student-Faculty Workshop - 2025 (University of Bath)
  • Commonwealth Ph.D. Conference - 2025 (Cumberland Lodge, Windsor)
  • Research Grant talk at RCS Bath - 2025 (Bath Spa University) 

Income Differentials & Rate of Time Preference: A Developing Country Perspective

  • Bath-Bristol Graduate Student Workshop - 2024 (University of Bristol)
  • Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society - 2025  (University of Glasgow)
  • Presentation at BABB Seminar Series - 2024 (University of Bath)

Income Differentials & Rate of Time Preference: A Developing Country Perspective Bath Working Paper & CDE Working Paper (2025) with Prof. Mausumi Das and Dr. Ayona Bhattacharjee

Which internal validation indices to use while clustering electric load demand profiles? - Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (2022) with Dr. Mayank Jain, Dr. Tarek AlSkaif and Dr. Soumyabrata Dev
Email mukta.jain@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0009-0003-4683-1379
Key Expertise Poverty, Automation, Machine Learning and Macro-econometrics.
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