Pegah Nokhiz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Ethics Center at Yale (beginning September 1, 2026). Before starting at Yale, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Brown University.
Pegah’s research interests include investigating the long-term effects of automated decision-making (on artificial societies), human agency and values in sociotechnical systems, bridging quantitative and qualitative methods from other disciplines by analyzing and quantifying interdisciplinary notions (to gauge the ethical and social impacts of AI tools), and the digital economy. Methodologically, Pegah’s work draws on frameworks and notions from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, moral philosophy, social sciences, and economics. Her work has been published in interdisciplinary venues such as Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), and The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).