People
DIGLab is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and students who work together to design programs to boost digital inclusion and democratize access to digital tools
Team
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Professor Philip Roessler
Director
Phil is a Professor of Government at William & Mary. He is a leading expert on digital technology and development, bridging the digital divide, and African political economy. He also is one of three principal investigators leading the Interoperable Payment Systems project at Innovations for Poverty Action.
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Dr. Shreya Bhattacharya
Senior Research Analyst
Shreya is a development economist specializing in applied microeconomics, randomized control trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental interventions. Prior to joining DIGLab, Shreya was an Economist at Amazon, where she built spatial and causal machine learning models to study the impact of Amazon’s labor and digital media initiatives. Shreya has a PhD in Economics from the University of Houston.
Current Students
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Grace Hilton
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Ian Kung
Alumni
Dr. Tanu Kumar, Claremont Graduate University (Formerly Post-Doc, DIGLAB)
Laura Schwartz, People Lab, Harvard University (Formerly Program Manager, DIGLab)