About

OpenGulf has benefited from the wisdom and hard work of many collaborators who are listed below along with a general description of the tasks that they carried out.

Project Co-Directors

  • Nora Barakat (Stanford)
  • David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Current Team Members

name affiliation responsibilities
Nada Ammagui Arab Gulf States Institute annotation, data analysis, mapping, transcription, research
Camille Cole Illinois State U map data creation, historical text annotation
Mustafa Emre Günaydı Stanford U web design, project management, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping
Moe Khalil Stanford U automatic transcription of Arabic, annotation, transcription
Süphan Kırmızıaltın NYU Abu Dhabi automatic transcription, data modeling, HTR model creation
Iman Deriche Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping
Julia Fine Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping
Jana Abdullah Gomri Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping, automatic transcription of Arabic
Raghad Hasanein Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping, automatic transcription of Arabic
Anne Ladyem McDivitt Stanford U project management, technical consultation
Enkhjin Munkhbayar Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping, coding for automating processes
Khosiyat Oripova Stanford U annotation, disambiguation, data analysis, mapping

Former Team Members

name affiliation responsibilities
Yesmine Abida NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Nouf AlNuaimi NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Salama AlZaabi NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Prince Ampofo NYU Abu Dhabi digitization, image manipulation, data enrichment
Zaina Awan NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, transcription, data analysis
Iván Budnik NYU Abu Dhabi code, data extraction, data enrichment
David Curcurbet NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Sidra Dahhan NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, transcription, data analysis
Haneen Fathy NYU Abu Dhabi automatic transcription of Arabic
Liyan Ibrahim NYU Abu Dhabi data analysis and manipulation, website design, visualization
Donia Ismail NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Rhea Kale Stanford U annotation, research, data quality
Mirela Minkova NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Ansar Mirza NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Joseph Nartey Opey NYU Abu Dhabi data analysis and manipulation
Alma Kapan Visiting Research Assistant natural language processing, named entity recognition, pipeline construction
Rhythm Kukreja NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, transcription, HTR, computational text analysis
Everett Pruett NYU Kevorkian annotation, research, data quality, Lorimer dataset team leader
Manahil Qadir NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, research
Balaqis Al Senani UAE University, Al Ain data modeling, environment atlas prototyping
Zaina Shariff NYU New York annotation, research
Gurgen Tadevosyan NYU Abu Dhabi annotation, transcription, research
Danny Tse Stanford U computational text analysis
Khalbinur Zhuman NYU Shanghai data analysis and manipulation

A list of posts written by the team here.