People / Hamidah Oderinwale

Research Affiliate (Alum)

About

Hamidah is an undergraduate at McGill studying math. She was formerly at a SDE intern at Amazon. She’s a non-resident fellow at IFP and a contributing editor at Reboot. She’s interested in data systems, knowledge retrieval, and policy.

Blog posts

Distilling Research at Scale

New concepts must be explained to be understood, yet we rarely invest sufficient effort in clarifying them. While explanations demand time and care, this investment is essential, because without it, ideas remain opaque, inaccessible, and dormant. Today we see that the pace of explanation…

Hamidah Oderinwale

2025-04-04

Towards codified context, durable documentation, and process preservation

Here, my goal is to introduce my research interests and offer some exposition on how they came to be. Libraries are troves of information, but they also include the systems that help people make use of the information inside them. We should consider rethinking the library and ensure it includes…

Hamidah Oderinwale

2025-02-27