His research interests include growth and development, macroeconomics, contract theory, financial economics, labor and education economics. He received a Bachelor Degree in Engineering (First Class Honor with Gold Medal) from Chulalongkorn Univeristy and a Master Degree in Physics from the same university. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2006, where he studied under Professor Robert M. Townsend. He was working as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara between 2006 and 2010. Curriculum Vitae