Ainaz Alavi
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Ainaz Alavi

Research Assistant

Ontario Tech - Trustworthy AI Lab

About me

I'm a researcher by day and a dancer by night. I'm working and studying at Ontario Tech University, and my goal in life is to experience everything to its fullest and cross as many things off my bucket list as I can!

Interests

  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Fairness and Ethics in AI
  • AI Alignment and Safety
NowActively looking for a job

Research & Publications

Adversarial Attacks on ML based BPA Models

Probing how the ML models used in bloodstain pattern analysis hold up against adversarial attacks.

Adversarial Attacks
Paper in progress

Does Image Size Matter in BPA

Measuring how much image resolution affects machine learning accuracy in bloodstain analysis.

Paper: The impact of image size on bloodstain pattern analysis using machine learning

Forensic Science International • 2024

Machine Learning
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Unsupervised Learning for Drip Pattern Analysis

An unsupervised approach that finds and explains the key features hidden in drip patterns.

Paper: Unsupervised machine learning approach for the detection and interpretation of key features in drip patterns

Forensic Science International • 2025

Unsupervised LearningComputer Vision
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Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data

Mining Twitter data to measure public sentiment and risk perception around emerging technologies.

Paper: The risk perception of nanotechnology: evidence from Twitter

RSC Advances • 2022

NLP
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Updates

Aug 2026

Defended my Master's thesis

Successfully defended my Master's thesis at Ontario Tech University.