I'm an MSE Computer Science student at Princeton, affiliated with the Center for Information Technology Policy, and incredibly lucky to be advised by Peter Henderson at the POLARIS Lab.
I want to understand how to preserve meaningful human agency within complex systems involving both human and non-human agents. This requires inquiry at multiple scales: how to ensure models reliably follow human-created laws, how to design human-AI systems that strengthen rather than displace human reasoning, and how to shift existing societal incentive structures to prevent gradual erosion of meaningful human agency. Grounding everything is the normative question: what constitutes meaningful human agency? I'm currently using methods from machine learning, philosophy and law to explore these questions.
* Denotes equal contribution
Before grad school, I spent three years as a software engineer at Bloomberg, building ML models for the legal domain. I did my undergrad at Princeton (CS, with a minor in Political Theory), advised by Elad Hazan. Spent a summer teaching in Tokyo and a gap year teaching in Nepal. Grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan, but did my last two years of high school at UWC Red Cross Nordic, in a tiny town by a magnificent fjord on the west coast of Norway.
Below are some fun things I did during my undergrad years.