Abdijabar Mohamed

I am currently in my final year of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard Kennedy School), where I am concentrating in Democracy, Politics, and Institutions (DPI) and simultaneously pursuing the Data & Research Methods STEM Pathway. At Harvard, I am honored to be a recipient of the Carnesale and Pforzheimer fellowships. Previously, I obtained a one-year Master of Global Affairs (AI track) from the Schwarzman Scholars Program in Beijing, China, in June 2020, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Middlebury College, a private liberal arts college in Vermont, in February 2019. At Middlebury, I studied abroad at Oxford University as an associate student of Keble College and was a recipient of the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace.

I spent the 2022/23 academic year volunteering as a First-Year Computer Science Faculty member (and temporary substitute for English poetry classes) at Abaarso School, the first co-ed American boarding school in Somaliland, the self-declared, autonomous region in northern Somalia. At Abaarso, I taught programming skills in Python and web development to approximately 120 students.

As a graduate student at Harvard, I continued to strengthen my research and teaching experience. In the Spring of 2024, I worked as a Course Assistant for DPI-852: Advanced Data and Information Visualization, taught by Professor Hong Qu, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Research Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. In the Summer of 2024, I worked as a Data Encoding and Labelling Research Assistant for the Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) Project, managed by Professor Erica Chenoweth, Academic Dean for Faculty Development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Harvard Kennedy School. In the Fall of 2024, I worked as a Teaching Fellow in Somali language at the African Language Program at Harvard, under the supervision of Professor John Mugane, Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures and Director of the African Language Program. 

I am currently looking for work at the intersection of data science, AI and public policy. 

1. Harvard University African Languages Program (ALP), Teaching Fellow (TF) for Professor John Mugane, Somali AB: Elementary Somali 
2. Harvard University Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), Data & Admin Support Intern
3. Nonviolent Action Lab, Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Research Assistant (RA) for Professor Erica Chenoweth, Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) Project
4. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Course Assistant (CA) for Professor Hong Qu, DPI-852: Advanced Data and Information Visualization
5. Abaarso School - Somalia, First-year Computer Science Faculty

1. Harvard University, Master of Public Policy (Data & Research Methods STEM Pathway/Democracy, Politics, and Institutions (DPI) Concentration)
2. Schwarzman Scholar 
3. Middlebury College, BA in Computer Science