Welcome to my website!

I’m SayedMorteza Malaekeh, a Ph.D. student in Sustainable Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), also pursuing a Master’s in Economics. I’m a graduate research assistant at the Rapid, Equitable, & Sustainable Energy Transitions Lab (RESET-LAB), supervised by Prof. Sergio Castellanos, and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

I hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and water resources engineering (with highest distinction), respectively, with a minor in economics from Sharif University of Technology and was an exchange graduate student in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University. I also spent last summer as a visiting researcher at the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of Economics) at the California Institute of Technology, hosted by Prof. Hannah Drucknemiller.

My research focuses on environmental and energy economics and policy, incorporating elements of household finance and public economics. On the methods side, I am particularly interested in causal inference for complex settings (e.g., unstructured data such as images, graphs, texts), where I leverage deep learning and machine learning to develop innovative solutions.

Service and Activities

• Program Committe: NeurIPS Workshop in GenAI for Health
• Reviewer: NeurIPS Workshop in GenAI for Health, Agricultural Economics, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Board of Directors, Persian Student Society, UT Austin
• Peer Mentor, UT Austin
• Teacher, Yarigaran Education Charity Group
• Admin/Basketball Analyst and Writer, 3Sanieh
• Varsity Basketball Athelete, Sharif University of Technology