Hamdan Azhar
Hamdan Azhar is an American data scientist, journalist, and activist. He is a founding member of the Bitcoin Center, a former data scientist at Facebook, and a visiting professor of data science at the City University of New York.
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. He is also an inventor on Facebook's patent application for "Determining and utilizing contextual meaning of digital standardized image characters", published in June 2017, along with Thomas Dimson, Bogdan State, and Shankar Kalyanaraman.Early years
Hamdan Azhar was raised in an immigrant family in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, earned his bachelor's in economics from Pennsylvania State University, and his master's in biostatistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. From 2011-2012, Azhar was a research assistant at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School.
