Syeda Masooma Naqvi

I’m a 3rd year PhD student, advised by Lana Yarosh in the GroupLens Research Lab at the University of Minnesota.

Research interests: Human-Centered AI, Platform Governance, Recovery from Substance Use Disorders, Online Communities, ML Interpretability

Who gets to create, decide, and participate? I study how technologies, and the rules that govern them, redistribute agency among people with unequal expertise and power.

News

• May 2026: Published “From Curiosity to Caution: How Expertise Shapes the Use of Interpretable Machine Learning” at FAccT 2026.
• May 2025: Published my first CHI paper, “Catalyst for Creativity or a Hollow Trend? A Cross-Level Perspective on the Role of Generative AI in Design”, at CHI 2025.