CV

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Aug. 2025 – Present

MS in Language Technology · Pittsburgh, PA

  • Advisor: Mona Diab | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Jul. 2022 – May 2025

BS in Computer Science · Doha, Qatar

  • Advisor: Houda Bouamor | Minor in Computational Ethics
  • Dean's List, 2025

Research Interests

I study how AI systems represent, interact with, and simulate people, from individual behavior to collective social dynamics. My work spans anthropomorphism and human-centered evaluation; persona and multi-agent social simulation; and the evidential foundations of AI welfare claims. Looking ahead, I am interested in scalable oversight and trustworthy multi-agent systems, with a focus on understanding and shaping their societal impact.

Research Experience

Carnegie Mellon University

Jan. 2025 – Present

Advisor: Prof. Mona Diab · Pittsburgh, PA

  • Human-centered evaluation. Co-authored frameworks for evaluating anthropomorphic design cues [P11] and cultural benchmarks [P7]; audited 20 cultural benchmarks and identified six recurring methodological pitfalls.
  • Multi-agent social simulation. Co-first author of Sentipolis [P2], which studies how persistent emotional states and memory shape agent interactions and emergent social dynamics.
  • Student simulation. Co-authored a formalization of simulated learners as constrained generation under explicit knowledge-access, error, and learning-state specifications [W8].

Singapore University of Technology and Design

May 2024 – Jul. 2024

Advisor: Prof. Roy Ka-Wei Lee · Singapore

  • Developed ToxiCloakCN; implemented LLM and classifier baselines to measure macro-F1 degradation under homophone and emoji perturbations. EMNLP 2024, co-first author [P15].

Qatar Computing Research Institute

May 2023 – Oct. 2023

Advisor: Dr. Firoj Alam · Doha, Qatar

  • Fine-tuned Arabic BERT-based models, evaluated dropout settings, and benchmarked zero-shot and few-shot GPT-4 for propaganda and disinformation detection. ArAIEval 2023 [P18].

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Advisor: Prof. Houda Bouamor · Doha, Qatar

  • Multi-agent academic advising. Co-authored TartanMaroon [P4], an advising system using iterative negotiation among specialized agents for constrained degree planning, evaluated on 220 advising queries. ACL 2026, System Demonstrations.
  • Chinese offensive language detection (May–Oct. 2023). Led a survey of datasets, methods, and evaluation challenges [W11]; designed a labeling task and curated a 6k+ entry dataset of subversive Chinese phrases.

Publications

Full publication list

Research Mentoring

  • Peidi Dong

    Sep. 2025 – Present

    Undergraduate, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar · AI safety, human–AI interaction, education. TartanMaroon [P4].

  • Ethan Pan

    Sep. 2024 – Present

    Undergraduate, University of Wisconsin–Madison · Social simulation, human–computer interaction.

Academic Service

Academic Leadership

  • 2026 ACL Rolling Review, Area Chair
  • 2026 SocialSim @ COLM, Organizer
  • 2025 PersonaNLP @ NeurIPS, Lead Organizer

Program Committees & Reviewing

  • 2025 AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program, Program Committee Member

Conferences: ACL (2025, 2026); CAIS (2026); CSCW (2025); EMNLP (2025); ICASSP (2026); ICLR (2025, 2026); ICWSM (2025); WWW (2026).

Journals: IJHCI; TAFFC; TMLR; TNNLS.

University & Community Service

  • 2026 LTI Teaching Track Search Committee, Student Member
  • 2024 The Web Conference, Volunteer
  • 2023 Student Majilis, Head of Academics

Talks & Presentations

  • Persona Collapse: Measuring Diversity Failures in LLM-Simulated Populations. STAMINA-WG Research Talk Series on Agents, Sims, Social Tech, and Safety. May 2026.
  • Embracing Contradiction: Theoretical Inconsistency Will Not Impede the Road of Building Responsible AI Systems. CMU FEAT Reading Group. Feb. 2026.
  • Humanizing Machines: Rethinking LLM Anthropomorphism Through a Multi-Level Framework of Design. MLNLP Seminar. Oct. 2025.
  • Classical and Modern Language Modeling Techniques for Transmembrane Helix Prediction. ISMB, extended abstract poster. With Malak Ibrahim and Madhavi Ganapathiraju. 2024.

Teaching

  • Spr. 2024 98-031: NLP Ethics in a Nutshell, Student Instructor
  • Spr. 2024 15-112: Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science, Course Assistant
  • Fall 2023 15-110: Principles of Computing, Course Assistant