I am an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I recently completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2024–2025) and at the Centre for Philosophy & AI Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2023–2024).
In Spring 2023, I completed my doctorate in philosophy with doctoral minors in neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona under the co-supervision of Sara Aronowitz and Mark Timmons.
I specialise in the philosophy of neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning from the perspective of general philosophy of science. My research explores the relationships between various forms of explanation, modelling, and analysis in these three fields. A recurring theme in my work is that the tasks designed for and administered to both natural and artificial systems play fundamental roles in shaping and scaffolding how we explain, analyse, and model those systems.
My name is Arabic/Urdu. It’s pronounced “AH-lee-uh roo-MAH-nuh”.