Current Research Areas
Personalized & Community-driven Moderation
Online spaces are increasingly dominated by centralized content moderation approaches that fail to address diverse community needs. My research includes:
- Designing and evaluating novel moderation mechanisms that respect user agency and community input.
- Investigating how different stakeholders perceive fairness in GenAI assisted moderation systems
AI in Unconventional Contexts (Spiritual/Social Computing)
I'm exploring how AI and social computing might support deeper and more reflective experiences online. This emerging research direction investigates:
- How AI might facilitate more meaningful connections in digital spaces?
- What happens when general purpose L/VLMs are used for spiritual reasons? How to align ML systems for spiritual computing?
Previous Research
Healthcare Accessibility for Marginalized Communities
This project focused on extending healthcare systems to extremely impoverished people in Bangladesh. We designed, developed, and deployed an intermediary-based solution that bridges the gap between available healthcare services and marginalized populations without access to technology.
Platform Economics and Social Inequality
This study examined how ridesharing platforms operate in Global South contexts, revealing how the local adoption of technology-based sharing economies can amplify existing inequalities and disrupt prevailing social dynamics.
Technology Resilience During Crisis
This work documented how repair and e-waste worker communities adapted to pandemic restrictions, and how end-users developed new repair practices when formal repair services became unavailable.
