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Director

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Dr. 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

Dr. Ghanahshyam Kshirsagar

Post Doctoral Visiting Scholar

Working on Brain Computer Interface, Biosignals, Machine (Deep) Learning. He is currently also working with the Northeastern Exponential AI Institute.

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Gianna Williams

PhD Student

Working on feminism, critical theory and interaction design to transform gig work.

Kimberly Do

PhD Student

She is interested in designing interfaces to empower gig workers with disabilities.
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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.

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Phil Butler

Research Engineer

Phil completed his Masters in AI at Northeastern and is now a research engineer in the lab where he helps to study biases in AI systems and create intelligent civic AI tools.

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Chandler Che

Masters Student

Combing human centered AI and collective action theory to design new activism tools for gig workers.

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Christopher Curtis

Masters Student

Creating AI based tools to quantify the labor conditions of gig workers.

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Mitanshi Vyas

Masters Student

She is designing intelligent tools and recommender systems for gig workers

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Alumni: Dr. Carlos Toxtli

Alumni: PhD Candidate

Carlos graduated in 2022. He is now an Assistant Professor at Clemson University.

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Alumni: Dr. Claudia Flores-Saviaga

Alumni: PhD Candidate

Claudia graduated and joined Meta’s Observatory Board as a researcher to conduct investigations around disinformation in the real world.

Undergraduate Students

Maya De Los Santos

Undergraduate Researcher

Maya is a computer engineering undergraduate who is creating AI based tools for Latina gig workers.

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Talia Berdichevsky

CS Undergraduate Student

She is conducting research on using AI for text summarization and modeling to help gig workers understand problems their information ecosystem and make better decisions.

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Natalie Chen

Political Science Undergraduate Student

Political Science Undergraduate Student working in bias in facial verification systems and human in the loop systems

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Luca Sharbani

Undergraduate Student

Interested in using computer science to design civic tech that uses culture theory to empower gig workers.

Research Collaborators

Norma Elva Chavez

Norma Elva Chavez

Professor

Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Professor Norma Elva is a research collaborator of our lab.

Rafael Morales

Director Gov Tech

Rafael is leading our gov tech research and helping us to connect and work with a number of governments in Latin America so we can design empowering technologies for them. He is a researcher and professor at UNAM.
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Alix Gallardo

Product Experience Manager

Working on web3 projects that follows a human-centered design approach and leading women in tech communities. #TechnoLatinas

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Gema Toledo

UX Research Collaborator

Gema is a Computer Engineer from UNAM, and is UX and Innovation Specialist. She has created a number of iniciatives to promote latinas in tech, such as BrunchTech and Technolatinas.

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Mohamed Suliman

Senior Disinformation Researcher

Interested in understanding biases in A.I. systems to combat disinformation to create fairer and better solutions.

Shazia Ansari

Shazia Ansari

Product Manager

Shazia is focused on Human Centered Design and UX for Civic A.I. used by Federal Governments.

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