Engy Ziedan

Biography
Engy Ziedan, PhD, is Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer at Protege, where she leads research on the quality, value, and evaluation of data used to train and assess artificial intelligence systems. An applied economist and health economist, she previously held faculty positions at Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and at Tulane University. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Chicago. As an applied microeconomist, her academic work uses causal inference and quasi-experimental methods to analyze large-scale healthcare data, including electronic medical records, insurance claims, and prescription data. She studies medical spending, Medicare reimbursement changes, aging populations, and the evaluation of AI systems. Her economic research has been cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and featured in major outlets including The New York Times and NPR.