Aleksandr Michuda is an assistant research professor at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. He studies how machine learning and big data can be used to solve problems in development economics. He is particularly interested in the role of ride-share applications in transforming the labor market in emerging markets. He has worked with various corporate partners to make rigorous and policy-relevant research.

Michuda has a joint appointment in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.