Dr. Reza Hadi Mogavi was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the HCI Games Group from 2023 to 2025. During his appointment, he made substantial scholarly and academic contributions to the group. He was awarded a Lupina Fellowship, received multiple paper awards including Best Paper and Honorable Mention distinctions, and contributed to the development of several national and international research grant proposals, including submissions to Google, CIFAR, and the NSERC Alliance program. He also co-advised PhD students, supported AI-related teaching, and led AI classes and webinars for academic and public audiences.

Dr. Mogavi’s research brought together human-computer interaction (HCI) and computational intelligence (CI), an integrated perspective he described as H/CI. His work examined how relationships between people and intelligent systems are formed, strained, and repaired, with particular attention to trust, transparency, and accountability in AI. Grounded in human-computer interaction, his research emphasized how human values, context, and lived experience shape the design and use of intelligent technologies.

His research was organized around three closely related themes that guided his scholarship and collaborative work.

Responsible AI: fairness, transparency, and accountability in intelligent systems.
Human-Centered Design: aligning technologies with people’s needs, values, and everyday practices.
Human Experience: how individuals understand, trust, and engage with AI in real-world settings.

As he concludes his postdoctoral appointment with the HCI Games Group in 2025, Dr. Mogavi will take up a new postdoctoral position in January 2026 in the Department of Computing and Software Engineering at McMaster University, where he will continue his work on responsible and human-centered AI.