Mahad Ibrahim

Campus Address:
School of Information Management and Systems
6 South Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

mahad@sims.berkeley.edu


Education

University of California, Berkeley - PhD, Information Management and Systems (Expected May 2007)
University of California, Berkeley - MIMS, Information Management and Systems (May 2002)
Cornell University - BS, Applied Economics and Management (May 1998)

Awards/Honors/Fellowship/Grants

- Member of winning team in the Bears Breaking Boundaries contest for Curricular Innovation for our proposed "ICT for Development certificate program"
- Member of winning team in the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD) Big Ideas Competition for our proposal "Point of Use Water Treatment"
- Fulbright Scholar - Egypt 2005
- Al-Falah Program Grant for the study of Technology Transfer between the West and Islamic World
- UCOP Mentored Research Award
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship (Arabic)
- UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)/Management of Technology Fellowship 2004
- Berkeley Center for the Information Society (BCIS) Summer Research Grant
- University of California, Berkeley - Graduate Fellowship

Teaching Experience

- Graduate Student Instructor, The Information School, University of California, Berkeley: "ICT for Development: Context, Strategies and Impacts", Spring 2006.
- Co-led the design of a new course in the School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, "ICT for Development: Context, Strategies and Impacts." Will be taught in Spring 2005 by Annalee Saxenian and Joyojeet Pal.
- Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Computer Science,University of California, Berkeley: "Introduction to Software Engineering", Spring 2002.
- Teaching Assistant - Cornell University, Department of Communication, "Introduction to Oral Communication", Spring 1997.

Professional and Academic Experience

Intel Digital Health/Management of Technology Program, Haas School of Business
Graduate Student Researcher (12/05-04/06)

- Researched the technical and financial feasibility of kiosk-based telemedicine in rural Africa.
- Conducted fieldwork in Uganda as part of a joint UC Berkeley and Intel team to identify opportunities within the public healthcare system for successful interventions using digital technologies, with a specific focus on the primary care level.
- Completed over 20 interviews and site visits with government officials, private sector companies, rural clinics and technology centers , and local NGOs.
- Researched and summarized literature concerning telemedicine and public health informatics in Africa with an emphasis on rural interventions using kiosk-based or mobile technology solutions.

United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Univeristy of California, Berkeley
United Nations Management of Technology Fellow (2/04-4/05)

-Created proposal and won UN-Berkeley collaborative fellowship to research the role of medical technologies in developing countries.
-Helped lead multidisciplinary fellowship team of students ranging from engineering to business
- Conducted over 50 interviews across all staff levels and dozens of site visits in India and US
- Wrote case research study for UC Berkeley-United Nations conference on one of the only non-profit pharmaceutical/medical device companies in the world (Aurolab)
- Presented research at conference on technology in emerging markets to academic, business and public sector leaders

Prof. J. Doug Tygar, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher (January 2002 - December 2004)

- Conducted information and computer security reviews for various clients.
- Developed recommendations for improving security of reviewed systems.

Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Clinic Fellow (January 2003 - December 2003)

- Conducted research on issues of workplace privacy and ubiquitous computing.
- Developed a focus group methodology aimed at studying emerging ubiquitous computing technologies.
- Co-authored a proposal for integrating Fair Information Practices into workplace privacy agreements.

Hewlett Packard/Compaq, Emerging Market Solutions Division, Palo Alto, CA
Research Consultant (February 2004 - June 2004)

- Analyzed the barriers to using open source software in the new 441 shared computing platform in emerging markets.
- Conducted a cost/benefit analysis of creating a Microsoft Windows version of the 441 shared computing platform.
- Examined the social and political factors likely to affect the adoption of the 441 shared computing platform in Africa.
- Co-authored the report "A Technology Roadmap for the 441 shared computing platform" and presented the results to the Emerging Market Solutions management team.

Computing Operations and Information Systems Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Data Integration Analyst (July 2001 - August 2001)

- Conducted research into methods for anonymizing aggregate data.
- Examined methods for aggregating campus wide data using third party tools.
- Redesigned the website for the Data Integration project.

A.T. Kearney/Satori Research, San Francisco, CA
Research Intern (October 2000 - February 2001)

- Examined the factors affecting the successful use of information and communication technologies to transform business processes.
- Developed a series of case studies demonstrating both effective and ineffective uses of technology to transform Value Chains.
- Contributed to a white paper entitled "Transforming the Value Chain - Why the Global 5000 are not Utilizing Information Abundance."

Student Housing Department, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Network Administrator (June 1999 - August 2000)

- Desgined and implemented a Windows 2000 network infrastucture for Student Housing Resource Centers.
- Initiator and project manager of the development of a multimedia CD-ROM using Director to provide instructions for connecting to the UCD Residential Network.
- Managed large NT/2000 technology infrastructure providing mail, database, remote access, application, and systems management services.

Publications

Bhandari, Aman, Mahad Ibrahim, Jaspal S. Sandhu. "The Aurolab Model for Enabling Access to Medical Technologies," Conference Proceedings, Bridging the Divide Conference. April 2005

Ibrahim, Mahad, Joyojeet Pal, Annalee Saxenian. "Methods of E-Development - Models and Consequences," Conference Proceedings, 4th Annual Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge University Institute of Management, Cambridge, UK. July 2005

Ibrahim, Mahad, Dierdre Mulligan, Osbaldo Cantu. "Ubquitous Computing and Privacy in the Workplace: A Case Study of Nurse Locator Badges at Eden Medical Center." [working paper]

Ibrahim, Mahad, Ben Bellows, Aman Bhandari, Jaspal S. Sandhu. "Peering into the Black Box: a holistic framework for innovating at the intersection of ICT and Health", in Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges (Gasco-Hernandez, et al. editors), Idea Group, 2006. Book chapter, in press.

Sandhu, Jaspal. S., P. Balakrishnan, Aman Bhandari, Mahad Ibrahim. "Appropriate Design of Medical Technologies for Emerging Regions: The Case of Aurolab". Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition. November 2005.

Works in Progress

Ibrahim, Mahad. "Illiteracy and Orality: Rethinking ICT design for Illiterate Populations in Developing Societies."

Ibrahim, Mahad, Aman Bhandari, Sandra Dratler, Jaspal S. Sandhu, R.D. Thulsiraj. "An Analysis of the Delivery of Remote Eye Care Services in Tamil Nadu".


Presentations

Ibrahim, M. "Ubiquitous Computing and Privacy in the Workplace: A Case Study of Nurse Locator Badges at Eden Medical Center." Invited presentation at the 2003 Berkeley Center for the Information Society seminar series on Technology and Society.

Bhandari, A. Ibrahim, M. Sandhu, J.S. "The Aurolab Model for Enabling Access to Medical Technologies," Forthcoming presentation at the Bridging the Divide 2005 Conference. (Forthcoming April 2005)



Professional Affliations


Languages

- English (Native Fluency)
- Arabic (Advanced Proficiency)
- Somali (Fluent)
- French (Basic Knowledge)

Skills

Operating Systems/Programming Languages: Windows 9x/NT/2000, Linux, Unix, Java, C, VB
Software Applications: Office, Visio 2000, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, SPSS
Internet: HTML, PHP, MySQL
Quantitative Skills: Financial, Statistical, and Demographic Analysis
Qualitative Skills: Usability Research and Testing, Interviewing, Focus group facilitation