Hi! I'm Adhi Balamurugan (short for Adhithiya Narayanan Balamurugan). I’m a data-driven researcher focused on using quantitative methods to answer policy-relevant questions. My experience spans Python-based modeling, econometrics, and analytics using large government and administrative datasets, with applications in immigration, labor markets, and broader public policy. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines and building tools that help others make better, evidence-based decisions.
A curated collection of the work I'm most proud of.
Agent-based microsimulation of the employment-based immigration queue, synthesizing 12 years of USCIS petition-level microdata with IPUMS demographic sampling to reconstruct ~5.7M individual applicant state trajectories.
Quantitative analysis of the employment-based immigration backlog, evaluating wage suppression mechanisms, dependent labor market exclusion, and age-out dynamics to evaluate four complementary reform pathways.