Africa & the MIddle East

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Blasé Ur

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Salikoko S Mufwene

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics

2026-27 Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients
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Pedram Hassanzadeh

Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)

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Pedram Hassanzadeh

Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)

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Kathryn Takabvirwa

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College

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Emanuele Colonnelli

Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

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Marshini Chetty

Associate Professor of Computer Science

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Marshini

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Marshini Chetty is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago where she directs the Amyoli Internet Research Laboratory (AIR lab). She specializes in human-computer interaction, usable privacy and security, and ubiquitous computing. Her work has won best paper and honorable mention awards at SOUPS, CHI, and CSCW, and she was a co-recipient of the Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers award. Her research has been featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Washington Journal, BBC, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, WIRED, and Slashdot. She has received generous funding from the National Science Foundation, through grants and an NSF CAREER award, as well as the National Security Agency, Facebook, and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards.
2025-26 Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients