Hi! I’m Innocent Ndubuisi-Obi Jr, a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At UW, I’m a member of the ICTD Lab advised by Kurtis Heimerl where I work on the ISOC-funded PATIO project which is a federated research testbed for network and systems research in Africa. I’m an inter-disciplinary researcher currently working across the areas of computer networking, security,  digital ethnography, formal methods, and applied category theory.  All my work is geared towards designing computing systems for low-resource settings with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

I received my Masters in Information Science with a specialization in Computational Social Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information under the guidance of Kentaro Toyama and Eric Gilbert. My Masters thesis, BITDANFO, focused on creating a p2p transit and traffic sensing application for Lagos, Nigeria. I received my Bachelors in International Political Economy from the Walsh School of Foreign Service @ Georgetown University. Prior to my PhD, I was a Research Associate at the MIT GOV/LAB and the Civic Data Design Lab (CDDL) where I worked on the Living Data Hubs project and led some work around the CDR data analysis and government innovation.