Mohammed Alsobay

Mohammed Alsobay

Ph.D. Candidate in Information Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hi!

I’m exploring computational social science as a PhD candidate in the Information Technology group at MIT Sloan, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Abdullah Almaatouq.

I worked in oil & gas, but felt that there were too many machines, and not enough people. I then worked in management consulting, and felt that there were a lot of people, but not enough technical work. Data science is my people-centric, technically-interesting middle ground.

My broad research interests lie in understanding collaborative and adversarial modes of human-AI interaction, and in exploring how virtual labs and adaptive experimentation can be applied to this and other questions in the social sciences.

Interests
  • Human-AI interaction
  • Adaptive experimentation
  • Collective intelligence
  • Arabic NLP
Education
  • Ph.D. in Information Technology

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

  • M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 2017

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 2016

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology