I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, where I am advised by Professor Saiph Savage. My research enables non-experts to become co-designers of their own software systems. I work at the intersection of Human-AI Interaction, the societal impacts of generative AI on knowledge workers, and workplace technologies.
I develop systems, methods, evaluations, and benchmarks to study this shift. My co-design method lets workers use generative AI to create their own design materials, from images of speculative futures to working prototypes of software systems. My systems help workers collaborate and design together, and my evaluations and benchmarks are grounded in end users’ needs through workflow and behavior modeling.
I draw on social and cognitive science theories to guide the design and development of AI systems.
During my undergraduate, I also worked as a Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) and Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B).
Before joining the Ph.D. program, I built a social enterprise, Majdoors, an online gig platform to digitize unorganized construction gig workers in India.
I serve as chair of the ACM SIGCHI Boston chapter, where my vision is to bridge HCI and adjacent communities. I bring researchers, practitioners, and students together around questions such as who gets to shape AI, opening research to people outside universities. I am also affiliated with the Global Action Policy Initiative (GAP) at Northeastern University.
Kashif
Imteyaz
I build and evaluate AI system to support how people think, work together, and co-create with AI.
I’m happy to chat about my research or give a talk at your organization. I also mentor undergraduate and master’s students applying to CS PhD programs. If you feel like you lack exposure and experience, please send me an email at imteyaz.k@northeastern.edu
Updates!
Selected Publications
Kashif Imteyaz, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Saiph Savage
Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora. 2024 🏆
Vincent Cavez, Kashif Imteyaz, Anne-Flore Cabouat
ACM Designing Interactive Systems
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I was invited to attend the second annual Digital Cooperation Day, hosted by the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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I presented my research on downstream evaluation of code agents for Generative UI at the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making in Pittsburgh.
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I attended CSCW in Salt Lake City, where I led the organization of the workshop on Agent-Mediated Collaboration.
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I co-organized an NSF-supported workshop on Generative AI and the Future of Work with collaborators from Syracuse University, Skidmore College, and Northeastern University.
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I presented an overview of my PhD research at the Doctoral Consortium of HCOMP and CI 2026, hosted at Virginia Tech’s campus in the DC area.
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My paper on artifact-centered evaluation and a benchmark for generative UI tools was published at AAAI/AIES.
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I gave a guest lecture for CS8001 "Cognitive Science and Large Language Models" at Georgia Tech.
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I gave an invited talk on “Co-designing Methods and Tools for Worker-Centric AI” at Université Paris-Saclay and SIGCHI Paris! 🇫🇷
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I am leading the organization of a workshop at CSCW 2026 in Utah, USA, bringing together academic and industry leaders to examine how AI agents are reshaping attribution, originality, and accountability in collaborative knowledge work.
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My research on AI and the Future of Work made it into @WIRED.
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I am co-organizing a workshop at CHIWORK26 in Linz, Austria, to develop a shared understanding of disclosure practices for Generative AI–based work augmentation.
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My paper, "Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for Freelance Knowledge Workers," was accepted to CHIWORK26.
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My paper on Co-Designing Collaborative Generative for Knowledge Workers was accepted at CHI26.
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I am helping co-organize CHIWORK26, serving as Associate Chair and co-chairing the Student Volunteer Chair.
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I am co-organizing a workshop, "Co-Data: Cultivating Effective Human-LLM Collaboration for Collaborative Data Processing," at ACM CHI26 in Barcelona.
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I was re-elected to serve as chair of ACM SIGCHI's BostonCHI chapter.
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I am visiting Stanford HAI as a student researcher, working on a sketch-to-code generation system for physics simulation.
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Excited to share that I'll be presenting at Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences at the Spring 2025 Seminar Series!
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My paper on the Impact of GenAI on developers who are visually impaired was accepted at CHI2025. I will be presenting our work at CHI 2025!
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Excited to serve on the Program Committee for CHIWORK2025!
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I will be co-chairing the demo track at CHIWORK2025!
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My paper was accepted at AMexiHC and received an honorable mention award!
You can find my full list of publications on my Google Scholar
