AI and the future of work
How automation, generative AI and algorithmic management reshape jobs, skills and inequality — starting with the workers who feel it first. Published in Sociology Lens, with a second study at revise-and-resubmit.
What I'm working on
Research interests
Four connected interests, one question: what happens to people when software and AI organize their work — and what should we build once we know? I study it with mixed methods, then write the tools the findings call for.
Human–computer interaction
How students and workers actually use AI agents and tools. I analyze thousands of student conversations with an AI tutor chatbot (AI Programming Research Group) and build learning tools for Gravity Spy, the citizen-science project behind LIGO.
Digital labor & online freelancers
Platform and gig work and the algorithms that manage it. My master's thesis follows Bangladeshi freelancers on Upwork and Fiverr through 24 in-depth interviews — work I did myself first, with 100+ client projects.
ICT for development (ICT4D)
How information systems, platforms and mobile internet open — or close — economic opportunity in the Global South, and how AI is reshaping that path for workers in countries like Bangladesh.