Ainaz Alavi
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Ainaz Alavi

Research Assistant

Ontario Tech - Trustworthy AI Lab

About me

I'm a researcher by day and a dancer by night. I'm working and studying at Ontario Tech University, and my goal in life is to experience everything to its fullest and cross as many things off my bucket list as I can!

Interests

  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Fairness and Ethics in AI
  • AI Alignment and Safety
Now
Writing a paper on Robustness of ML models...

Research & Publications

The impact of image size on bloodstain pattern analysis using machine learning

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Forensic Science International • 2024

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Unsupervised machine learning approach for the detection and interpretation of key features in drip patterns

Forensic Science International • 2025

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The risk perception of nanotechnology: evidence from twitter

RSC advances • 2022

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News

Updates & Wins

Jan 2025
Poster preview

Poster accepted at AAAI Workshop on Trustworthy AI

Sharing results on robustness metrics for vision models.

Nov 2024

Guest lecture for Ontario Tech undergrads

Spoke about fairness pitfalls in applied ML systems.

Sep 2024

Forensic vision pipeline reached 92% accuracy

New augmentation and calibration pass improved drip pattern classification.

Selected Projects

Project 1

Visualizing Reliability

An interactive dashboard exploring confidence intervals in modern LLMs using D3.js and React.

ReactD3.js
Project 2

Narrative AI

A storytelling assistant that helps writers overcome block by suggesting plot twists based on emotion arcs.

PythonNLP