I am a research scientist at The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS). My work focuses on how people understand and interact with AI systems, especially around trust, safety, and online harms.
I combine human factors, security, and privacy, and human-centered AI methods to study how people interpret AI-generated content and authenticity signals.
I use user studies, interviews, and behavioral experiments to examine how design choices shape user understanding and decision making.
Previously, I worked within the (RAISE Lab) to develop investigated biases in AI-generated co-authorship networks. I earned my PhD from Boston University, where I was part of the Security Lab (SeclaBU) and collaborated with iDrama Lab and STIR Lab on detecting youth exploitation, disinformation, and coordinated abuse across social media platforms.
Read more about my research here.
My work has been published in top-tier venues including ACM CHI, CSCW, and IEEE S&P and has been reported by WIRED. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) .
| 2025 | July | Started Research Scientist position at The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS). |
| 2024 | August | Started postdoc at the University of Washington. |
| 2024 | May | Defended my PhD. Thesis. You can call me a doc. now!! |
| 2023 | December | Gave a talk on "Tackling Malicious Activity Online" at the University of Iowa |
| 2023 | November | I was awarded "Rising Star in Social Computing and Tech Policy" by University of Iowa |
| 2023 | October | Our paper "Sliding into My DMs" received the Impact Recognition award! |
| 2023 | August | I got selected for the SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award. |
| 2023 | May | I received Research PhD. Fellowship Finalist Award at Meta. |
| 2023 | April | Our papers titled "Getting Meta" and "Sliding into My DMs" got accepted at CSCW'23. Two papers yaayy!! |
| 2022 | August | My Paper "Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth" got the Honorable Mention Award at CHI'22'!! |
| 2022 | April | Our paper titled "Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth" got accepted at CHI'22! |
Read my blog on "Unlocking the Power of Multimodal Analysis for Safer Online Spaces"
Stay tuned for more!!