Research Team
Director
Saiph Savage
Director
Assistant Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern. Named one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Tech & recognized by UNESCO as having the top most impactful AI projects. Former Tech Worker.
PhD Students
Kashif Imteyaz
PhD Student
He is working on designing collective action systems for gig workers. In the past he has created tools to digitize India’s rural workforce.
Christopher Curtis
PhD Student
He is working on benchmarks for evaluating AI reasoning and deep neural network archictures. He is also engaged in co-design work for vulnerable populations such as gig workers and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Rosa Suviranta
Visiting PhD Student
She is a PhD student from the University of Helsinki working at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Humanities. Her research explores how crowdsourcing and Large Language Models (LLMs) can be combined for multimodal data annotation and new methods in digital humanities.
Alumni
Dr. Monica Munnangi
Alumni: PhD candidate
Senior Research Scientist at Collate focused on studying healthcare and human centered AI.
Master’s Students
Viraj Upadhyay
AI+UX Research Engineer
Researcher in Human Centered AI, eorking on Data Visualizations and Political Disinformation. Viraj finished his masters degree in CS at Northeastern.
Sheryl Deakin
Masters Research Assistant
Working on novel human centered AI tools for hospital workers.
Undergraduate Students
Nakul Rajpal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate researcher working on AI tools for workers
Jeronimo Santoyo
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jeronimo Santoyo is an undergraduate at Northeastern University studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics with Business Administration. Originally from Mexico, he explores ethics, governance, and technology with a focus on the social and philosophical impacts of emerging technologies.
Justin Rodriguez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Justin is an REU undergraduate research assistant whose work focuses on designing AI tools to support formerly incarcerated individuals in their workforce reentry and career development.
María José Velazquez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Data Science researcher at El Colegio de México’s Seminar on Violence and Peace, using machine learning to promote safer online spaces.
Fernanda Muñoz
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant from UNAM. She is also a Data Science researcher at El Colegio de México’s Seminar on Violence and Peace, using machine learning to promote safer online spaces.
Research Collaborators
Norma Elva Chavez
Professor
Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Professor Norma Elva is a research collaborator of our lab supporting our research on robots and workforce development.
Ghanahshyam Kshirsagar
Alumni: Post Doctoral Visiting Scholar
Working on Brain Computer Interface, Biosignals, Machine (Deep) Learning. He is currently also working with the Northeastern Exponential AI Institute.
Rafael Morales
Director Gov Tech
Rafael holds a PhD in Political Science and leads our GovTech research, focusing on designing empowering technologies for governments across Latin America. He plays a key role in fostering collaborations with various governmental institutions in the region. In addition to his research, he is a professor at UNAM.
Shazia Ansari
Program Manager
Shazia is focused on Human Centered Intelligent Cyber security used by Federal Governments. She has a masters degree in Computer Science.