Experience

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

GroupLens Lab, University of Minnesota
Aug 2024 - Present

• Advisor:
  • Harmanpreet Kaur

Research Associate

Interactive Media Lab, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Oct 2022 - Present

• Principal Investigators:
  • Dr. Agha Ali Raza
  • Dr. Maryam Mustafa

Work In Progress

• An Anatomy of WhatsApp Groups: Engaging Users Through A Public Messaging Intervention
  • Led the project
  • Joined public WhatsApp groups, extracted data from these groups, did qualitative (Thematic Analysis) and quantitative analysis of this data. Defined a criteria of shortlisting groups for our study.
  • Designed pre and post intervention surveys.
  • Designed the messaging intervention and deployed it.
  • Analyzed the results of the surveys using statistical tests.
  • Wrote the paper as first author
• Catalyzing Women’s Financial Inclusion: An Analysis of a Mobile Wallet Program in Pakistan (Ready for Submission)
  • Did thematic analysis from interview codes that were generated by the team
  • Wrote the Introduction, Data Analysis, Findings, and Conclusion sections of the paper
  • I am the second author on this paper
• Voice-Based Information Intervention for Hard-to-Reach Populations: Evaluating Quizzes, Short Messages, and Stories as Treatment Modalities. (Ready for Submission)
  • Performed data pre processing and detailed data analysis of data using several machine learning models
  • Led a team of student researchers and collaborated with them on writing the paper
  • Contributed to defining the conceptual framework of the study and its design

Teaching Assistant

Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

Aug 2023 - May 2024

• DSCI 510 Principals of Programming for Informatics
  • Grading Assignments and Labs
  • Providing feedback on Home Works, keeping a track of student performance

    Department of Economics, LUMS

    Aug 2020 - Jan 2020

• ECON-330 Econometrics
  • Taking Statistics and Probability tutorials
  • Teaching Regression Analysis using Stata
  • Designing Home Work assignments
  • Grading Home Work Assignments and providing feedback
  • Holding Office Hours
• Econ-211 Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Taking tutorials to teach concepts covered in calss
  • Grading Home Work Assignments
  • Holding Office Hours
• SS 187 Applied Statistics
  • Setting up Home Work assignments
  • Grading Home Work assignments