I work on behavioral modeling, LLM evaluation, and human–AI interaction. Methods I use most:
longitudinal mixed-effects models, behavioral clustering, NLP, and large-scale evaluation of
LLM behavior.
An evaluation framework built on 13,000+ real user messages from psychological distress contexts.
DelusionEval surfaces context-dependent failure modes in LLM safety behavior as conversation
history evolves. These failures are invisible to single-turn benchmarks.
Evaluating digital behavioral interventions on adolescent screen time using longitudinal smartphone
logs and mixed-effects models, with trajectory clustering to identify which psychological profiles
predict meaningful vs. null change.
Screenome Project: digital behavior and mental health
Stanford · Autonomous Agents Lab Dec 2024 – May 2026
Poster, Society for Digital Mental Health 2026
Constructing high-resolution behavioral time series from 100M+ smartphone screenshots and modeling
depressive symptom trajectories with longitudinal CES-D assessments. Findings highlight behavioral
precursors of mental health deterioration, with substantial individual heterogeneity.
NLP for urban infrastructure complaints
Fulbright Canada · Mitacs Globalink Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Published: CSCE 2023 & 2024 (Zarei, Mahajan, Mock, Nik-Bakht)
Analyzed 10,000+ online citizen complaints (SeeClickFix, Google Maps) using NLP for sentiment and
topic insights on infrastructure concerns like parks, street lights, and roads. Final deliverable
combined literature review and empirical findings in urban data analytics.
Quantitative analysis of commencement speeches
Wellesley College · Senior Honors Thesis Feb 2021 – Nov 2021
Honorable Mention, ASA/CAUSE Undergraduate Research Competition
NLP and statistical analysis of 800+ U.S. commencement speeches (1890–2020), tracing temporal shifts
in rhetorical patterns, sentiment, and thematic structure across more than a century of public speech.
Political structures and the topology of simplicial complexes
Wellesley · Institute for Mathematics and Democracy Jan 2020 – May 2021
Published: Mathematical Social Sciences, 114, 39–57 (Mock & Volić, 2021)
Co-authored a paper on how political conflicts and compromises can be expressed using simplicial
algebraic topology, building on homology theory and current topics in algebraic topology research.