About Me

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Alinia, applying my HCI expertise to enable human-centric AI safety, transparency, and compliance to critial systems.

Previously, I was a Staff Research Scientist employed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center as part of the Human-AI Collaboration team. Unfortunately, the entire team along with the Responsible AI team, and several others were laid off at the end of 2025.

During my nine years at IBM, I delivered a human-centric perspective to AI trust, AI transparency, and AI governance. My work enabled AI systems to be built responsibly, transparently, and with a human-centered focus. My projects included evaluating and documenting risks associated with AI models, accelerating the development of intelligent agents for business automation, and developing best practices and tools for AI documentation and AI governance.

My research has had a measurable impact at IBM. For example, I was the lead curator of IBM's AI Risk Atlas, a practical taxonomy of traditional, generative and agentic AI risks. The Risk Atlas together with my research set the foundation for how AI risks were identified, measured, mitigated, and tracked in IBM watsonx.governance. I was one of the lead inventors for IBM's FactSheets, which evolved how AI documentation was written from a static artifact to a living document that can be tailored to each individual.

Before IBM, I graduated with a Computer Science Ph.D. from Oregon State University, advised by the incredible Dr. Margaret Burnett modeling Information Foraging Theory in the context of software debugging.

• Sr. Research Scientist at Alinia
• HCI, AI Governance and AI Safety