Fanisi Mbozi

Fanisi Mbozi (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), is an Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds an undergraduate degree in political science from NYU Abu Dhabi with concentrations in comparative politics and data analysis. She is an aspiring political economist who is passionate about social science research. She is particularly interested in exploring how crowd-sourced ideas and public administrative data can be used to support policy-makers.

Fanisi worked as a research assistant in the NYU Abu Dhabi political science department where she evaluates claims of electoral fraud in African countries by deploying outlier detection models on administrative electoral data. She appreciates that the discourse-oriented nature of the Equitech Scholars community helps her gain diverse perspectives around issues like ethics of artificial intelligence and help her to explore new applications of data science in understanding social and economic inequality.