Muhammad Asghar is an experienced software engineer, data scientist, and product manager. He is a Master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University studying Public Policy Management, and Data Analytics as a Cognizant Trust and Safety Scholar. Muhammad holds dual bachelors in Computer Science and Mathematics from the City University of New York Lehman College. Muhammad is passionate about transportation policy and developing sustainable cities for the future.

In recent years, Muhammad has participated in high research environments and developed pilots for government initiatives. Most recently he was at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation working on Smart Cities and IoT projects as emerging technologies. Prior to that he was was a product manager for the NYC Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity where he piloted MyFile NYC in partnership with New America’s Digital Impact and Governance Initiative. He was selected as a Civic Digital Fellow at the US Census Bureau’s Center for Behavioral Methods where working on natural language processing pipelines. Professionally, he has worked as a software engineer in the defense industry.