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assistant professor · director of computer science · muhlenberg college

hamed
yaghoobianحامد یعقوبیان

I am an Assistant Professor and Director of Computer Science at Muhlenberg College. I teach computer science. I study AI: how it shapes people, organizations, decisions, and everyday life. My work draws on Science and Technology Studies, with an interest in practices, interactions, and what emerges when people and technologies encounter one another.

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I was born and raised in Mashhad, in the Khorasan region of eastern Iran. I now live in eastern Pennsylvania with my wife. Still east, a different one.

I like cooking, making sourdough, and good tea and coffee. These days, I'm learning Turkish and making things with Claude. Both make me feel alternately clever and illiterate. The bread is less judgmental.

For research, collaborations, or a chat, email me at hamedyaghoobian@muhlenberg.edu. Or visit me in the Trumbower Science Building. Room 125.

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A line drawing of Hamed: curly hair, round glasses, a moustache, a dark t-shirt.
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what's on the plate

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  1. 01teaching this term: CSI 102 · CSI 330 fall 2026 · 12 terms
  2. 02research 5 current projects with students, 4 past 9 students
  3. 03publications 93 citations · h-index 4 · i10 4 scholar, 18 oct
  4. 04news quoted in Communications of the ACM, “Are LLMs Stuck in Time?” jul 2026 · 12 items
  5. 05tools Learning Machines: machine learning, one working machine at a time 4 tools · one being built
  6. 06readings No. 3 · What Ferdowsi Let In 2 nov 2026
  7. 07poems collected poems, Persian and English

research interests

  1. 01Textual analysis 6 projects
  2. 02Human-AI interaction 4 projects
  3. 03Philosophy and sociology of technology 7 projects

education, and since

  1. 2011B.Sc. in Electrical EngineeringAzad University of Mashhad, Iran
  2. 2021Ph.D. in Computer ScienceUniversity of Georgia, USA
  3. 2021–Muhlenberg CollegeTrumbower Science Building, room 125