Welcome to my homepage! I am currently an AI advisor at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation. I am interested in applications of big data, artificial intelligence, and technology in the humanitarian and development sectors.

My academic research has focused on mobility, migration, and forced displacement as well as the use of alternative data sources to study populations that are underrepresented in traditional datasets. For my thesis, I studied the digital future of urban mobility, examining the interactions between ridesharing and public transportation, as well as the parking behavior of e-scooter users. I also conducted research on the movement of migrants and refugees in the Central Mediterranean and developed an interest in the use of machine learning for causal inference.

Prior to joining UNICEF I worked as an AI researcher at UN Global Pulse and completed my PhD thesis in Information Systems at the NYU Stern School of Business. Before that I spent four years working on randomized controlled trials with Innovations for Poverty Action, and received a BA in International Relations and Economics and an MA in International Policy from Stanford University.