Assistant Professor
About
Yousif Hassan is an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His work examines the social, economic, and political implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and big data focusing on the relationship between race, digital technology, and technoscientific capitalism. Hassan’s interest is at the intersection of social and racial justice, and technology policy. His research investigates the development of AI and its innovation ecosystem across multiple African countries focusing on data governance and the sociotechnical knowledge production practices of the state, scientists, and the tech industry. Hassan is a former Illinois distinguished fellow at the School of Information Sciences and a faculty affiliate with the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.Hassan received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Khartoum and Master of Engineering from McMaster University. He received his MA and PhD in Science and Technology Studies from York University.
Areas of Interest
Postcolonial, decolonial, intersectional, and Indigenous science and technology studies. Political economy of technoscience. African and Black studies. Critical data studies. Critical innovation studies. ICT/AI for development (ICT4D/AI4D) and Responsible AI. Politics of Science and Technology. Technology policy.
