Morteza Behrooz
Lead For Model Behavior And UXR at Character.AI
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMorteza Behrooz is a Staff UX Researcher with 13 years blending HCI, social-robotics, and AI product research, including five years as a senior UXR in Meta’s AI labs (FAIR) and work across Google, Spotify, LinkedIn, eBay, and Character.AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science focused on HCI/HRI and has driven foundational studies and prototypes that shipped as products (e.g., Spotify’s AI DJ) and influenced agent UX strategy across GenAI and robotics. Morteza specializes in designing interaction paradigms for interactive agents and co-creative AI, pairing rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods with prototyping and benchmark-informed evaluation. He’s published multiple HCI papers, holds a patent from internship work, and has a track record of establishing UXR functions inside research labs to make models more user-centered. Less obvious: his research on “story interestingness” and predictive-inference heuristics fuels his unique approach to shaping conversational and narrative AI experiences.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at University of TehranUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Persian
Github Skills (7)
relational5
encoder-decoder5
translation5
always-on4
machine-translation4
tensorflow4
neural-network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mbehrooz/rememberThatTime
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
always-on/always
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 11 months
relationalagentsadultsalways-onisolated
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