Welcome! I’m Hamidah (pronounced Huh-mee-dah). I’m usually based in Montreal, QC, at McGill. I study math and other things.

So what am I up to?

I’m at the Topos Institute. Here’s my research agenda (TLDR: libraries could be so much greater, and failures attributed to "not finding" what you need could become obsolete).

I'm developing a way to search structured models in CatColab. Next, I'm exploring how to query version-controlled models (e.g., changes pushed via a CLI), compare differences, and track their evolution over time. Think Git, but for more than text, beyond line-by-line diffs. This should help people work better and do cool things.

I’m a fellow at IFP, a DC think tank, where I focus on high-skilled immigration and metascience. I’ve also recently joined Reboot as an editor.

Nice. What about before?

This past summer, I worked at Amazon (AWS) in Vancouver. I helped with NaijaCoder, worked on the Data Provenance Initiative, and hung out at B21. Previously, I was also on the UK Day One Project team.

Interesting...

I’d be down to talk if you’re interested in anything mentioned here, and meet if you’re in the Bay Area :) Feel free to reach out at oderinwaleh@gmail.com or hamidah@ifp.org.