Kiana Jafari
Postdoctoral ResearcherStanford University
Researching human-agent teaming and human-centered AI — designing intelligent systems that enhance collaboration and empower human decision-making.
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Selected work
All projects- FAccT
The Doctor Will (Still) See You Now: On the Structural Limits of Agentic AI in Healthcare
A qualitative study based on interviews with 20 stakeholders examining how agentic AI is defined, evaluated, and constrained in healthcare, identifying three mutually reinforcing tensions: conceptual fragmentation, an autonomy contradiction, and an evaluation blind spot.
Agentic AIHealthcare AIResponsible AI - FAccT
Expert Evaluation and the Limits of Human Feedback in Mental Health AI Safety Testing
A mixed-methods study examining inter-rater reliability among three psychiatrists evaluating 360 LLM-generated mental health responses, revealing systematic expert disagreement driven by incompatible clinical frameworks rather than measurement error.
AI SafetyRLHFMental Health AI - FAccT
Responsible AI in the Global Context
A global survey-based study exploring responsible AI practices across 1000 organizations in 20 industries and 19 regions, defining a conceptual RAI maturity model.
Responsible AIAI Governance
News
All newsOur Paper "The Doctor Will (Still) See You Now: On the Structural Limits of Agentic AI in Healthcare" is accepted to FAccT 2026.
Our Paper "Expert Evaluation and the Limits of Human Feedback in Mental Health AI Safety Testing" is accepted to FAccT 2026.
Our Paper "The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims" got accepted to NeurIPS 2025 by our reviewers and the area chair but got REJECTED by NeurIPS.