Farid Karimli
AI + HCI. Boston, MA. faridkar@bu.edu.
I’m a first-year PhD student in Data Science in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University.
My work sits at the intersection of AI and HCI, focused on developing new interactive experiences powered by multimodal and agentic AI. Right now, I am building DeepRead and working towards a foundation model for Herbarium specimen recognition.
My background is in computer science and data science. Previously, I developed educational AI tutors for ML courses at BU, accessibility tools including CameraMouse and KeyGlide, and AI agents for workplace productivity in sales. I have published in accessibility and HCI, and worked on big data pipelines and full-stack web development.
I am always open to conversations and collaborations at the intersection of AI and HCI — feel free to reach out!
news
| Sep 02, 2025 | Started my Ph.D. in Data Science at BU. Advised by Dr. Thomas Gardos. |
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| Mar 03, 2025 | Started as a Software Engineer for Vincer, MIT-affiliated startup working on an AI platform for sales for productivity. |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Successfully defended my Master’s thesis on Multimodal Systems for Accessibility, Research, and Learning. |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Our CameraMouseAI paper got accepted at ASSETS 24’! |
| May 30, 2024 | Joined the Gardos Lab at Boston University, working on large-scale herbarium classification and academic AI assistants. |