Teaching
Who I have taught and mentored
Undergraduates in lectures and courses, and eight students in research, from high school to PhD level.
In the classroom
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Guest Lecturer, CSE 443: Digital Accessibility
Winter 2026
University of Washington, Seattle. An undergraduate course, at the invitation of Jennifer Mankoff. I lectured on control, embodiment and social bias in accessibility research, drawing on my ASSETS 2025 paper, and took questions from students.
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Teaching Assistant, Discrete Mathematics
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran.
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Teaching Assistant, Theory of Machines and Languages
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. Held office hours to answer undergraduate students’ questions.
In the lab
Since my PhD I have mentored eight students in research: two PhD students, two master’s students, three undergraduates (one through the NSF REU program) and one high school student. Four of them have co-authored papers with me.
Eight so far
Research mentees
Graduate students
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Hamza El Alaoui
PhD student
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. First author of StepWrite (UIST 2025) and co-author of our CHI 2026 paper on AI coaching and bias.
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Mahya Tazike
PhD student
Indiana University Indianapolis. Co-author of our preprint on disability disclosure and AI memory, and first author of a study now in preparation. I also advise her informally on her thesis and PhD path.
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Erfan Dastournejad
Master of Design, 2022
University of Washington. I served on the thesis committee for “Actual Conversations for the Virtual World”.
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Mohammad Hasani
MSc
University of Oregon. Mentored throughout his degree.
Undergraduate and high school
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Nyah Rene
BSc student, NSF REU 2025
Emory University. Co-author of “Reimagining Motion” (TEI 2027) and of a journal manuscript under review.
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Raeshana Sookhoo
BSc student
Carnegie Mellon University. VR accessibility and locomotion project.
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Jodie Yang
BSc student
Carnegie Mellon University. VR accessibility and locomotion project.
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Ziv Weissman
High school student
Co-author of three papers on hands-free game control. The first won first place in the CHI 2021 Student Game Competition. Now a PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.