Azza Abouzied
Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Design of intuitive data querying tools by leveraging UI-design, machine learning, and databases
Location/Countries of Interest: Egypt
Researchers
Affiliated Faculty
Wifag Adnan
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYUAD
Focus Area: Labor markets, Unemployment, Wage differentials, Female labor force, Education
Location/Countries of Interest: UAE, MENA
David Blakeslee
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYUAD
Focus Area: Political economy of development
Location/Countries of Interest: South Asia
Christopher Flinn
Professor of Economics, NYU
Focus Area: Household economics, Labor markets, Economic policy
Jemima A. Frimpong
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD
Focus Area: Adoption of Innovation, Decision Making, Health Care Organizations
Location/Countries of Interest: Africa (Ghana), the Gulf (UAE)
John Ham
Professor of Economics, NYUAD; Global Network Professor of Economics, NYU Wagner School of Public Service
Focus Area: Applied microeconomics, Labor, Health, Experimental economics, Development economics
Location/Countries of Interest: Western Economies, Indonesia, Bangladesh
Morgan Hardy
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYUAD
Focus Area: Development economics, Firms, Labor markets, Social Networks
Location/Countries of Interest: Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria
Jonathan Andrew Harris
Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Institutional and political behavior in Africa
Location/Countries of Interest: Africa, with a focus on Kenya
Stéphane Helleringer
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Focus Area: Demography; Epidemics; Mortality, and Causes of Deaths
Location/Countries of Interest: Bangladesh, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Senegal, Uganda
Onoso Imoagene
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD
Focus Area: International Migration
Location/Countries of Interest: Britain, USA, China, and countries in the Global South
Benjamin Laughlin
Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Ethnic conflict and the political, economic, and social effects of technology
Location/Countries of Interest: Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe
Abdul Noury
Associate Professor of Political Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: European Union Ideology, Nationality, Party Systems
Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics, NYUAD and and NYU New York
Focus Area: Human capital, Economic growth
Location/Countries of Interest: Africa (with a focus on Ghana and Ethiopia), India, UAE
Talal Rahwan
Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Social Science, Cooperative Game Theory, Multi-Agent Systems
Peter Cornelis van der Windt
Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Political economy of development in conflict-prone areas of Africa
Location/Countries of Interest: Congo, Kenya, Sierra Leone
Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYUAD
Focus Area: Development and the provision of public services
Location/Countries of Interest: Africa
Yasir Zaki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD
Focus Area: Communication Networks, Wireless Networks, Cellular Communication, Congestion Control Protocols, ICTD, Speeding Web for Developing Regions
Location/Countries of Interest: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya
Collaborators
Emilia Soldani
Assistant Professor of Labor and Applied Microeconomics, Goethe University
Focus Area: Development and Labor Economics
Location/Countries of Interest: Ghana, India
Ismael Mourifié
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
Focus Area: Applied Econometrics, Econometrics
Location/Countries of Interest: Canada, Côte D’Ivoire
Student Leaders
Karim Boudlal
DevLab Student Leader; Class of 2023, major in Economics and minor in Mathematics
Phil Wee
DevLab Student Leader; Class of 2024, major in Computer Science and Economics
Fanisi Mbozi
DevLab Student Leader; Class of 2022, major in Political Science and minor in Economics