Hamdan Azhar

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Hamdan Azhar
Alma mater Pennsylvania State University University of Michigan
OccupationData Scientist; Founding Member, Bitcoin Center

Hamdan Azhar is an American data scientist, journalist, and activist. He is a founding member of the Bitcoin Center, [1] [2] a former data scientist at Facebook, [3] [4] [5] and a visiting professor of data science at the City University of New York. [6]

Azhar is best known for his work in emoji data science, or using emoji data to inform sentiment analysis of popular reaction to current events in politics, culture, and society. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Early years

Hamdan Azhar was raised in an immigrant family in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. [13] He attended the Bronx High School of Science, [14] earned his bachelor's in economics from Pennsylvania State University, [15] and his master's in biostatistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. [16] From 2011-2012, Azhar was a research assistant at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School. [17]

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  17. ↑ "Lab Alumni Listing". Center for Decision Sciences Website. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
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