I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC. I completed my PhD as a member of the Information Technology group at MIT Sloan, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Abdullah Almaatouq.
I study how people—individually and collectively—interact with AI systems. My research focuses on:
- Building models and systems for group-AI interaction that augment group performance, facilitate effective collaboration, and enable new forms of teamwork
- Developing dynamic, human-centered AI evaluations that capture the ambiguity, open-endedness, and interactivity of real-world use, and better measure experienced usefulness
To enable my research, I also develop experimental methods and software for large-scale, interactive behavioral research, and am a core contributor to Empirica, an open-source virtual lab framework—reach out if you're interested in running group experiments!
Before my PhD, I was the founding data scientist at Mozn, where I built decision support systems in domains including financial compliance, medical procurement, and port operations. I previously earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MS in Applied Math and Computational Science from KAUST.