Hi! I am Moe Kyaw Thu, but most people call me Moe since the last two parts of my name are often difficult to pronounce. I was born in Myanmar (Burma) and have lived abroad since 2014, including the US, Denmark, Germany, and Japan, and now back to the US for my Ph.D. studies.
I am a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy. I am also working towards a Master of Science in Computer Science (Residential On-Campus Program), specializing in Machine Learning and Scientific Computing, as well as a Master of Science in Statistics.
My research stands at the intersection of emerging technologies and policymaking using computational and causal inference approaches. My dissertation focuses on (1) assessing how the Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International decision affected the stock market performance of AI-related firms in the U.S., (2) evaluating the impact of the Alice ruling on innovation dynamics in AI-emerging technologies through changes in patent novelty, and (3) measuring the broader influence of key post-Federal Circuit court cases on the novelty of software technology patents filed by U.S.-based firms.
From the Spring of 2023 to the Summer of 2023, I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant under the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, supported and funded by the Georgia Department of Transport. My project mainly involved identifying appropriate strategies to rebalance contractual terms and conditions for major design-build (DB) and Public-Private Partnership (P3) projects to enhance the competition in the transportation infrastructure market.
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