Work Experience
MIT Media Lab
- Profile: Interdisciplinary research organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Position: Research Assistant, Scalable Cooperation Group
- Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
- Duration: Sep 2015 - (present)
- Highlights:
- Studied ethics in autonomous machines, including the design and development of the Moral Machine and other platforms for collection of data on how human subjects perceive moral dilemma decisions made by autonomous vehicles, and assignment of responsibility in autonomous vehicle crashes
- Led a team of students and researchers developing interactive visualization tools for data on inter-country media coverage globally over time
- Developed interactive visualization tools for international cooperation networks and cross-cultural AI ethical perception comparisons
- Designed and implemented social recruitment apps for Media Lab crowdsourcing initiatives
- 2017/JUL: Conducted a workshop on crowdcomputing and citizen science for large-scale experiments at the 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science
- 2016/AUG-2016/SEP: Sent by MIT Media Lab to Dubai for the "Redefining Cities" #MLDubai workshop with IDEO, Wamda and Community Jameel, guiding a team through a week-long tech innovation workshop
- 2016/JUL: Sent by the MIT-India program to Emerging Worlds initiative workshop "Innovating for Billions" as part of a Media Lab delegation, to work with LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) Hyderabad, WeSchool Mumbai, and Tata Consultancy Services Digital Impact Square (DISQ) Nashik to guide innovation workshops across India
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Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
- Profile: Pioneering research-oriented university focused on alternative energy, sustainability and the environment (in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Position: Research Engineer, Smart Technology for Electric Vehicles and Automotive Systems Laboratory
Previously with the Social Computing and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the Interactive Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Location: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Duration: Dec 2010 - Aug 2015
- Highlights:
- Developed VehiSys open source platform for transport/vehicular data extraction and analysis
- Studied individual and social techniques for refining predictions of fuel consumption
- Studied software agent interactions with and learning from humans in repeated game environments
- Researched incentive mechanisms for encouraging cooperation in public good scenarios
- Developed a social mobilization web platform, a stage of which won our lab the 2012 Tag Challenge
- Developed large-scale simulation computer program for studying social searches across physical space
- Refined a decision theoretic model for computer bargaining agents to use when negotiating with humans
- Served as a Teaching Assistant in graduate-level Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms course
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Zawya LLC
- Profile: Leading regional portal for business information in the Middle East and North Africa
- Position: Operations Analyst, Technology Team
- Location: Dubai, UAE
- Duration: Aug 2007 - Dec 2010
- Highlights:
- Developed information supply chain monitors to ensure that data processing and serving does not fail silently
- Reengineered a market data supply chain application for greater robustness and efficiency
- Developed an efficient text-mining algorithm enabling automated tagging of relevant entities in content
- Developed a mobile device version of the portal
- Integrated content- and audience-aware logic into the advertisement hosting on the site
- Developed various content management applications for editors and data entry personnel
- Created a business intelligence portal for on-demand visualization and reporting on business performance data
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Hewitt Associates LLC
- Profile: Multinational leader in Human Resources service provision and consultancy
- Position: Web Application Developer, Technology Development Center (TDC)
- Location: Navi Mumbai, MH, India
- Duration: Dec 2004 - Jan 2006
- Highlights:
- Developed report generation and export functionality for an internal work time tracking system
- Developed reporting, payroll computation, fault ticket management and export modules for the organization's prototype absence management tool and its subsequent adaptations
- Developed cost savings data management and reporting modules in the organization's prototype global procurement cost management system
- Designed and developed controller, database access, session recovery and role-based authorization security modules for the organization's new prototype core web architecture
- Received the Hewitt TDC Star Award within three months of joining the company, for "significant contribution" and "value addition"
- Received a Hewitt TDC Spot Award for successfully researching and adapting open source technology to save the organization money in software licensing costs
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IIT Electric Power and Power Electronics Center
- Profile: Research center for the electrical power engineering field
- Position: Student Assistant, Voltage Security Assessment Group
- Location: Chicago, IL, USA
- Duration: May 2001 - Aug 2001
- Created a web interface for the Voltage Security Assessment application, allowing remote clients to run simulations on power grid behavior under a variety of parameter sets. Built the system from scratch to support user accounts, facilitate upload and management of large data files, run multiple asynchronous simulations on power grid data on demand, and maintain online repositories of results for later retrieval. Live-deployed the system, which remained in use for many years since.
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Al Mazroui and Partners LLC
- Profile: One of the oldest IT solution providers in the region
- Position: Assembly and Support Technician, IT Services
- Location: Abu Dhabi City, UAE
- Duration: Jun 1999 - Jul 1999 (Full-time Summer Job)
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