Email: ali-design [at] csail.mit.edu
Last Update: This website reflects my work and affiliation as of May 2022. For current research and professional updates, please visit my Google Scholar, GitHub, X (Twitter), YouTube, and LinkedIn.
About Me: I am an AI research scientist in the CSAIL labs at MIT. I collaborate with Antonio Torralba and Phillip Isola and the labs members, PhD students, and UROPs.
My research focuses on AI and creativity. I build machines to understand the creativity of our intelligence and support innovation. For example, how can we build AI that like humans learns to solve a task by defining simpler tasks and generalizing to more complex tasks? For this, I study two components of human intelligence: generalization and thinking outside the box (out of distribution). Developments from my work demonstrate three main applications: 1) Learning by generating, 2) Personalized creativity support tools to augment and democratize creativity, and 3) Learning theories of cognition and creativity.