I am a data scientist and researcher based in Cambridge, MA. I have a PhD in computer science, with research in data science and human-computer interaction. I enjoy using technical tools to understand and solve human problems.

I currently work for Apple, focusing on Responsible AI in Apple Services.

Selected Papers

• Understanding the Interplay of Scale, Data, and Bias in Language Models: a Case Study with BERT Muhammad Ali, Swetasudha Panda, Qinlan Shen, Michael Wick, Ari Kobren. arXiv, Jul 2024.

• Problematic Advertising and its Disparate Exposure on Facebook. Muhammad Ali, Angelica Goetzen, Alan Mislove, Elissa M. Redmiles, Piotr Sapiezynski. USENIX Security Symposium. Anaheim, CA, Aug 2023.

• Discrimination through Optimization: How Facebook’s ad delivery can lead to skewed outcomes. Muhammad Ali, Piotr Sapiezynski, Miranda Bogen, Aleksandra Korolova, Alan Mislove, Aaron Rieke. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Austin, TX, Nov 2019.

Service

• Program Committees:
  • FAccT ‘24, ‘23, ‘22, ‘21
  • IC2S2 ‘24, ‘23
  • TheWebConf ‘23
  • Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) @ NeurIPS ‘24, ‘23
  • Responsible Generative AI Workshop (ReGenAI) @ CVPR ‘24

• External Reviewing:
  • CHI ‘25
  • ICWSM ‘25
  • NeurIPS ‘24, ‘23, ‘21 (ethics reviewer)
  • ML4H ‘24, ‘23
  • CSCW ‘23, ‘21, ‘20
  • PETS ‘22
  • Trustworthy Multi-modal Foundation Models and AI Agents (TiFA) @ ICML ‘24