Jay Chen is an Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi and the Co-Director of the NYU Abu Dhabi Design Technology Lab. I am also a research scientist at the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) and a visiting faculty at NYU-Poly. In general, I am interested in Distributed Systems, Networking, Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD). My research interests lately include information access under poor connectivity, mobile networks, and Human Computer Interaction.