Researchers

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

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

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

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