Portrait of Saeideh Bakhshi

I study how people make sense of technology, intelligent systems, and each other.

I'm a quantitative UX research leader and computational social scientist, currently at OpenAI. Before this, I worked at Meta, Google, Block, and Yahoo, building research programs at the intersection of human behavior, data, product decision-making, and technology.

This site is where I share writing, frameworks, resources, and experiments on research craft, AI, measurement, and the evolving ways we understand people and intelligent systems.

Resources

UXR Interview Coach

Custom GPT

A custom GPT that runs realistic mock interviews for UX researchers — follow-up questions, structured feedback, and help turning real projects into stronger interview stories across IC to leadership roles.

Survey analysis contract

GitHub

A working contract for AI-assisted survey analysis: what the model is allowed to do, what stays human, and how to keep the audit trail intact.

Power & sample playground

GitHub

An interactive tool for building intuition about statistical power, sample size, and effect size before you commit to a study design.