Hello there! My name is Tawfiq Ammari. I am an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. I was advised by Prof. Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck at the University of Michigan School of Information. My CV and complete list of publications are here.
My research examines how vulnerable and marginalized populations—trauma survivors, people navigating stigmatized illness or crisis, racial minorities, immigrant communities, older adults, and students developing new relationships with AI—negotiate agency, identity, and recovery through digital technology. Working at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computational Social Science, and Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS), I study how platform design, algorithmic systems, and community governance enable or foreclose psychological safety, cultural belonging, and collective knowledge production. My work is organized around Trauma-Informed Design (TID), a framework for ensuring that digital systems serve those most at risk, with benefits that extend to all users through the curb-cut effect. I am a mixed methods researcher, combining computational techniques (topic modeling, network analysis, NLP, explainable AI) with qualitative inquiry (interviews, critical discourse analysis) to advocate for equity, safety, and progressive social change in online and AI-mediated contexts.
Contact
email: tawfiq.ammari at rutgers dot edu
twitter/x: @TawfiqAmmari
github: tawfiqam
bluesky: tawfiq.bsky.social
instagram: ammaritawfiq
linkedin: tawfiq-ammari
soquiet: soquiet.org