Ph.D. student in computer science at NJIT, working on human-computer interaction
I'm a Ph.D. student in computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in the HEART Lab, advised by Dr. Alisha Pradhan and Dr. Dimitri Theodoratos. I study how older adults decide whether to trust technologies designed for aging, and what that means for building AI people can understand and question.
I build tools, design studies, and evaluate systems to answer questions about people and technology. I work with user-centered design and mixed methods such as interviews, co-design and ideation sessions, diary studies, surveys, and thematic analysis.
Before NJIT, I did my B.Sc. in computer science and engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Bangladesh.
I am exploring user experience research internships for summer 2027.
Unpacked how distrust takes shape for older adults: when a system's workings become illegible, as trust builds and breaks over time, and as a way of setting boundaries around how far technology reaches. Turned those patterns into design directions.
Distrust emerges when the workings of a system become illegible: when a person cannot tell where their information is stored, or trace where it moves.
Trust is not settled once. It builds through prior experience and shifts with breakdowns, so the same person can rely on a system in one phase of use and withhold that reliance in the next.
Distrust can also be deliberate boundary work: a way of limiting how far a technology reaches into a person's autonomy, relationships, and everyday life.
These patterns point toward systems that support trust across the phases of use, and that make the movement and persistence of information perceptible rather than hidden.
Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2026). Accepted.
Across cohorts of older adults and generations of technology, (dis)trust has continued to shape the acceptance of technologies for aging. Yet, we still know little about if or how to design for older adults' distrust in technology. Towards this, we reviewed empirical studies in which older adults discussed trust and distrust in relation to technology. Our analysis shows that (dis)trust is constituted in three key ways: it emerges when material arrangements of digital systems become illegible, such as when older adults cannot determine where information is stored or trace its movement; it is temporally constituted and fluid, building and shifting through prior experience and breakdowns; and at times distrust can operate as boundary work through which individuals limit technology's reach into their autonomy, relationships, and everyday lives. Our work yields design directions for supporting trust across different phases of technology use and by designing systems that make the movement and persistence of information more perceptible.
@inproceedings{risvy2026distrust,
author = {Risvy, Muhid Hassan and Theodoratos, Dimitri and Pradhan, Alisha},
title = {Towards Designing for (Dis)Trust in Technologies for Aging},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '26)},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ACM}
}
Full list on Google Scholar.
Human-computer interaction and human-AI collaboration, focusing on older adults and trust in technologies for aging. See Research.
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | DS 110 | Basic Foundations of Artificial Intelligence |
| Fall 2026 | CS 332 | Principles of Operating Systems |
| Spring 2026 | CS 698 | Human-Robot Interaction |
| Spring 2026 | CS 288 | Intensive Programming in Linux |
| Fall 2025 | CS 288 | Intensive Programming in Linux (two sections) |
| Summer 2025 | CS 288 | Intensive Programming in Linux |
| Summer 2025 | CS 332 | Principles of Operating Systems |
| Spring 2025 | CS 388 | Android Application Development |
| Fall 2024 | CS 351 | Introduction to Cybersecurity |
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Semi-structured interviews, co-design and ideation sessions, diary studies, surveys, reflexive thematic analysis, qualitative coding and memoing, user studies.
C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, MATLAB. 850+ problems solved on Codeforces, LeetCode, and VJudge.
Our paper “Towards Designing for (Dis)Trust in Technologies for Aging” was accepted to ACM ASSETS 2026 in Porto, Portugal. arXiv preprint.
Elected as a vice president of the Bangladeshi Graduate Student Association at NJIT.
Started the Ph.D. program in computer science at NJIT.
Graduated with a B.Sc. in computer science and engineering from SUST.
A few photographs of mine were shown at a university exhibition in 2023.
It is daytime in Newark right now.