Philipp is an Applied AI Scientist working with the Development Impact Group’s AI Lab at the World Bank Group. He specializes in machine learning and natural language processing applications for research on food insecurity, conflicts, hate speech, and misinformation. He currently leads the ZeroHungerAI (ZHAI) project, in which the AI Lab leverages non-traditional data sources such as news reporting and traditional ML + GenAI to make better, earlier predictions of food crises.
Before joining the World Bank Group, Philipp was a Graduate Researcher in computational social science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously, he supported the UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General in implementing the UN’s Data Strategy and establishing CRAF’d. Philipp holds an SM in Computer Science and an SM in Technology and Policy, both from MIT.
