Waleed Hashmi

Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BSc in Computer Science from NYU

Research Areas: Computation Social Science, Computer Vision, Computer Networks


Waleed A. Hashmi completed his undergrad in Computer Science and Math with honors from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2021. His undergrad research was geared toward optimizing web pages and reducing page load time. This involved javascript classification and producing a unified tool that quantifies comparing structural and functional components of different variants of the same webpage. Both of these were recently published.

Since September 2021, Waleed has been working as a research assistant with Andy Harris. Here he is looking into different projects related to election fraud and the electoral process through different computational techniques.