Bio

Asma Ghandeharioun, M.Sc., Ph.D. is a senior research scientist at the People + AI research team in Google DeepMind. She is working on systems that better interpret humans and are better interpreted by humans. Her previous work spans machine learning interpretability, conversational AI, affective computing, digital health, and, more broadly, human-centered AI. She holds a doctorate and master’s degree from MIT and a bachelor’s degree from the Sharif University of Technology. She has been trained as a computer scientist/engineer and has research experiences at MIT, Google Research, Microsoft Research, EPFL, and in collaboration with medical professionals from Harvard, renowned hospitals in the Boston area, and abroad.

Her work has been published in premier peer-reviewed machine learning and digital health venues such as ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, AAAI, ACII, AISTATS, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Psychology of Well-being, has received awards in NeurIPS, and has been featured in Wired, Wall Street Journal, and New Scientist.