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I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive Science and Applied AI working on AI-Human Interaction, mental health, and Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan. I teach Perception, Learning and Memory, Cognitive Science, Clinical Neuroscience, and Decision-making. I am AI for Good (ITU) promotional partner and a UNICEF scholar. I represented Kazakhstan at the UN Conference of Peaceful Uses of Outer Space 2025 in Vienna. As a Behavioural Research Associate at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, I participated in the drafting of the New Consumer Duty Act (2021), with a particular focus on obstruction in choice (dark patterns and sludge, Thaler 2018). Before that, I worked in a consulting company collaborating with FTSE500 clients on improving diversity.
My work is converging around a central question: how can we understand, monitor, and support human cognition and mental wellbeing and what role can AI and neurotechnology play in that?
I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, integrating perspectives from cognitive science, computer science, behavioral economics, and philosophy. More specifically, I investigate how interactions between AI systems and human cognition can be leveraged to enhance human flourishing. My research interests include computational models of cognition, the cognitive impacts of AI use, psychological resilience, astronaut training, and brain–computer interfaces, with a focus on portable EEG technologies.
I work as:
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
Consultant in AI-Human Interaction and Behavioural Science
Research Lead at National Astronaut Training
Alina Gutoreva
..with KBTU, University of Warwick, Financial Conduct Authority, NHS, BT, Unicef, UNESCO, Space and Global Health Network, Kazakhstan Aerospace Committee and other organisations on human cognition and behavioural interventions to improve human wellbeing.
I have five years of teaching experience, including seminar teaching, practical sessions, marking, and project work. Teaching was focused on research methods in Psychology, such as hypothesis development, conducting research and experiments, statistical analysis, and results interpretation.
My PhD thesis explored personal and social learning in risky decision-making with rare events. Experiments showed that social information counterbalances personal information we did not find social effects in one-to-one learning. This suggests that “other” is an alternative “self”, given the same environment and goal, suggesting that biases of individual behaviour and description of that behaviour to others(s) are complementary parts of subjective experiences.
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