Biography
Afsaneh Razi is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Science at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), where she co-direct the
DONUTS (Data Ontology Networks Users Textuality Safety) Collaboratory. Her research expertise is positioned at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Social Computing, AI/ML, Privacy, and Online Safety. She is passionate about investigating the sociotechnical complexities of online harms to design and develop technologies facilitating safer and supportive online interactions, especially for vulnerable populations. Specifically, one of her active research areas addresses the critical and timely problem of online safety by leveraging a multi-disciplinary approach of human-centered machine learning to understand risks and mitigate that vulnerable users encounter online. She has a record of research publications from ACM’s premier Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), as well as the Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). She also has experience working on fast-paced product projects using mix-methods in industry as a user experience researcher.
Research Areas
- AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics
- Computer Security and Privacy
- Data Science
- Human-Centered Computing
Research Interests
Human-computer interaction, Social Computing, human-centered AI, Privacy, Ethics, Online Safety, language processing
Academic Distinctions
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Central Florida
- MS, Computer Science, University of Central Florida
- MS, Software Engineering, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
- BS, Computer Science, University of Tehran