Currently at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Between human learning, machine learning, and the design that connects them.
Product manager and researcher asking one question on loop: How might we build AI systems that better understand, support, and augment human learning and cognition?
01 — Now
I grew up in 
Kosovo, where the internet was my lab, my library, and my classroom rolled into one. That early self-directed, relentless curiosity is still the engine behind everything I do.
Today I'm getting my Ed.M. at Harvard's Learning, Design, Innovation and Technology track while leading product for AI-driven classroom tools at Elite Education. I care about the messy middle: where research on how minds learn meets the design choices and machine systems that shape what actually happens in a classroom.
I build
Shipping AI products that survive contact with real learners — so the system and the user improve together.
I research
Measuring what's actually happening — attention, memory, participation, and learning.
I advise
Helping teams design curriculum, policy, and tools that fit how minds actually learn.
02 — Work
Teachers track who's speaking, who's quiet, and which ideas land — without a dashboard that pulls them out of the room. Early pilots show lower cognitive load, more voluntary participation from quiet students, and teachers noticing patterns they used to miss.
Compared public posts about depression, OCD, and ADHD against evidence-informed descriptions. Found peer support and distortion sitting side by side — indistinguishable to readers. Started as an ML project, ended as a measurement problem.
Designed an end-to-end AI literacy curriculum adopted across a county government — establishing a shared baseline for 4,000+ employees.
Fine-tuned MarianMT on the UN Parallel Corpora and shipped a translator workflow that hits 93%+ cosine similarity to human translation — cutting the busywork around multilingual policy work.
03 — Path
Product/Project Manager.
Junior Data Scientist / Research Assistant.
Junior Data Scientist / Research Assistant.
Research Assistant (Educational Psychology).
04 — Thinking
Learning that is hard is the learning that sticks.
Self-regulated learning is one of the biggest ROI skills.
Learning is almost never fully individual.
Learning goals first, learning tools next.
Tech and learning can work together miraculously — but good design is very needed.
05 — CONTACT
I'd love to hear about it. I'm always up for thoughtful conversations, research collabs, or a good cup of coffee in Cambridge.