Mentor Areas
governance, big data, corruption, migration
Description:
Please see the PDRI/Devlab website for a list of ongoing projects; they change regularly. Launched in 2020, PDRI-DevLab seeks to identify solutions to challenges facing low- and middle-income countries and foster impactful international development research. As co-director of the PDRI-DevLab, Dr. Wibbels' work centers around several of the lab’s flagship themes, including 'big data for development' and 'forced displacement and migration'. These themes cover a wide range of projects, ranging from Machine Learning for Peace to an ongoing study of internal migration in Ghana to many others.
Preferred Qualifications
Students should have some background in working with data, ideally in R and/or Python.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. https://pdri-devlab.upenn.edu/
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.