Mahnaz Roshanaei

Mahnaz Roshanaei is a research scientist in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science, with a focus on social behavior, digital media effects, human-AI interactions, and well-being. Mahnaz studies the relationship between social interactions and well-being, exploring how the benefits of social interactions are influenced by contextual factors such as the people involved and the medium through which the interaction takes place. She is also examining how digital media platforms including smartphone sensing, social media, and AI impact people’ social behaviors and psychological experience. Mahnaz holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Stanford and I-school at UC Berkeley prior to joining MAP lab.