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Mina Mohammadi (she/her/hers)

Mina Mohammadi (she/her/hers)

Ph.D. in Information Studies

Mina Mohammadi is a PhD Student in Information Studies at UCLA and a Research Team Lead at OpenMined. She holds an MSc from the Oxford Internet Institute, and a BA from New York University.

Before the PhD, Mohammadi worked as an Associate at OpenAI on the Safety Systems and Trustworthy AI team and as a AI Policy Program Manager at Mozilla. Her main research interests exist at the intersection of privacy-enhancing tech (PETs), tech workers rights and computational social science methods. She is a member of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Association for Middle Eastern and North African Journalists (AMEJA).

Education

  • BA New York University, 2022

  • MSc Oxford Internet Institute, 2024

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Trust and Safety Research Conference Poster, Stanford University 2024

  • Fellow, Ethical Tech Project 2025

  • Research Fellow, Arab Reform Initiative 2025

  • Undergraduate Research Conference Best Presentation Technology and Society, New York University 2022

  • J.S Sinclair Research Scholar Award, New York University 2022