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December 2025: I’m excited to share that a paper I co-authored has been accepted to CSCW 2026. The paper titled 'Beyond Bias Detection: Community Auditors and Normative Reasoning in AI Oversight'. Read the summary: How everyday people can spot risks that expert AI audits might miss
November 2025: I’m honored to share that I have been nominated by information school for UW–Madison’s Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award. Each year, only three TAs can be nominated from each department, making this nomination especially meaningful. I’m grateful to my faculty mentors and students for their support and trust.
October 2025: I'm attending CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway and will be attending the Doctoral Consortium.
June 2025: I'm thrilled to share that my doctoral research proposal, "Bridging the Gap: Translating AI Regulations into Socio-Technical Measures for Responsible AI," has been accepted to the Doctoral Consortium at CSCW 2025! 🎉
April 2025: 🎉 Exciting milestone: I’m officially a PhD candidate! After successfully passing my preliminary examination and program portfolio review, I’ve advanced to candidacy in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
July 2024: I joined the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany, as a summer Research intern. I'll be working on the harms of AI decision-making, focusing on bias, fairness, and ethical solutions.
April 2024: I got an STS summer scholar award from the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies. This award will fund my research on exploring local fair AI systems.
November 2023: I got an STS mini-fellowship award from the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 2023: I presented our work ‘Redefining fairness in ML’, co-authored with my advisor, Corey Jackson, and Devansh Saxena, at the User AI Auditing Workshop.
September 2023: I won the Emerging Scholar award from SIGCHI and will be attending the Emerging Scholar workshop at CSCW'23 Minneapolis in October.

Hi, I'm Tallal. I'm a PhD candidate at the Information School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I work with Dr. Corey Jackson. I'm also a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Diversity Science and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies.

My research sits across Human-Computer Interaction, Responsible AI, and Science and Technology Studies. I study how AI systems are designed, evaluated, and governed in real-world organizational and institutional settings, with a focus on how high-level policy gets translated into the everyday practice of machine learning development. My current work centers on practitioner engagement with AI ethics toolkits in industry, and on AI governance in Pakistan and other Global South contexts.

Alongside my academic research, I have nearly a decade of applied UX and design research with underserved users in financial services, mobile, and health. I have contributed to funded projects with the Gates Foundation, Women's World Banking, Google's Next Billion User initiative, My Oral Village, and UNICEF, conducted in Pakistan and through cross-country collaborations. Selected projects are on my Projects page.

I am currently on the job market for industry UX research roles, and for academic positions (postdocs and tenure-track) in Responsible AI, HCI, and STS.

Outside research, I follow cricket, hike, road-trip, watch stand-up, and rewatch a lot of sitcoms.

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