Now
What I’m working on
BRASS Digital Lab
I am the founder and director of the BRASS Digital Lab — the first and only Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and Supervisory Technology (SupTech) firm covering all 76+ UAE accredited higher education institutions.
The Lab currently operates 4 live compliance platforms, with 20 completed builds and 52 in active development — serving universities (Edu-RegTech: institutional compliance management) and government bodies (Edu-SupTech: real-time sector-wide oversight for MoHESR and CAA).
📁 View Portfolio | 📋 About the Lab
Research
How does the transition to cognitive-capital-intensive production reshape economic value creation, distributional outcomes, and the boundaries of firms, markets, and states?
All working papers are hosted on the BRASS Digital Lab Research Portal — 27 papers across 6 research programmes. Active projects include:
Inference Economics:
- The Inference Economy: Token Consumption, Software Productivity, and Jevons Paradox Dynamics in AI — Formalizing the Token Production Function, Token Kuznets Curve, and Jevons Paradox of AI Tokens with calibrated simulation evidence.
- Tokens as Technology: AI Inference, Labor Augmentation, and Long-Run Software Productivity Growth — Macroeconomic growth model treating AI inference tokens as Harrod-neutral labor-augmenting technology.
- The Transformative Role of MCP in the AI-Driven API Economy — DiD study on 10,000 simulated firms showing MCP reduces integration costs by ~31%.
Agentic Innovation Economics:
- Agentic Innovation Economics: Autonomous AI Agents and the Future of Endogenous Technological Change — Formal theoretical framework extending endogenous growth theory to autonomous AI innovators.
- A Complete Formal Endogenous Growth Model with Autonomous AI Innovation Agents — Full equilibrium analysis and simulation.
- AI’s Impact on Fresh Graduate Labor Demand — CES production framework + Monte Carlo, IEEE conference paper.
OBEF / RegTech Research:
- Regulation-Induced Innovation in UAE Higher Education — Formal model and Monte Carlo simulation of the Edu-RegTech market emerging from the MoHESR OBF mandate.
- Digital Fair Trade Platforms for UAE HE Regulation — Platform-economics model integrating mechanism design and Monte Carlo calibration.
Digitalization, Inclusion & Development:
- Open Banking Maturity, Financial Inclusion, and Firm Productivity: Global Evidence
- Digital and Financial Inclusion in Burkina Faso: Household Welfare and COVID-19
- Trading in Digital Financial Markets: Retail Investment Demand in the UAE
I welcome collaborations on:
- Economics of AI, inference tokens, and agentic systems
- UAE/GCC higher education RegTech and OBF compliance
- Digital finance, open banking, and financial inclusion
- Spatial and computational econometrics
- West African and Gulf development economics
- Green innovation and firm-level efficiency
Teaching
Each semester at Al Ain University, College of Business:
- Applied Econometrics (graduate)
- Managerial Economics (graduate)
- Business Economics (undergraduate)
- Economics of Digital Innovation (undergraduate elective)
Upcoming Events (2025–2026)
- SNAMS 2025 — 12th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security · Vienna, Austria · November 25–28, 2025
- GCET 2025 — 12th International Conference on the Global Congress on Emerging Technologies · University Lyon 1, Lyon, France · December 2–5, 2025