Amin Samadi
AI engineer and researcher. I build AI agents and study how people work with them.
Ph.D., UC Irvine.
Experience
ROIAI One AI Scientist Intern · 2026
Agents that dispute retailer chargebacks. My root-cause analysis agent led to a paid pilot.
TRAIL Lead engineer and researcher · 2023–now
A live chat platform where LLM teammates join human teams. trail.aminsamadi.org
Classroom video pipeline 2025
Multimodal transcription that beat Whisper and GPT-4o on math classrooms. GitHub
Research Focus
Building reliable AI agents
- Evals and observability for production agents
- Self-improving agents, from feedback loops to post-training on agent traces
- Multi-agent workflows grounded in domain knowledge
How humans and AI collaborate
- AI teammates in human teams: who leads, and when an agent should speak
- Agent memory and persona fidelity
- Trust, inclusion, and learning in human–AI teams
Selected Publications
- Read the Room or Lead the Room: Understanding Socio-Cognitive Dynamics in Human-AI Teaming LAK'26
- Personalities at Play: Probing Alignment in AI Teammates Preprint 2026
- Automated Multimodal Transcription for Belonging-Centered Classroom Interaction Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges AIED'26
- Minds and Machines Unite: Deciphering Social and Cognitive Dynamics in Collaborative Problem Solving with AI LAK'24
- From Discourse to Dynamics: Understanding Team Interactions Through Temporally Sensitive NLP EDM'25 · Best Short Paper Award