Dyah is a third-year PhD student at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, The Australian National University. Her research interest lies within the area of applied microeconomics and development economics, primarily in the intersection of labor economics, social policy, gender,and education. She investigates the role of social assistance on labor and family economies, including how different targeting designs influence the decision to work in the informal sector and how the provision of universal childcare affects female labor force participation.

Her earlier work includes studies on the return of vocational education, the role of minimum wage on human capital investment, and the scarring effects of unemployment and informal employment. Some of her papers have been presented at international seminars and published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Economic Analysis and Policy, Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, and others.

Prior to her PhD, she served as an Assistant Advisor at the Executive Office of the President, and was instrumental in pipelining the Pre-Employment Card program, a large-scale work competence and entrepreneurship development program in Indonesia. She received her MPhil in Economics from University of Cambridge and MSc in Economics for Development from University of Oxford. She previously completed her BSc in Economics from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.