Zana Buçinca, a scholar whose research interests include human-AI interaction and the future of work, will be joining the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) in the fall of 2026 when she joins the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Work and Organization Studies group as Assistant Professor. Buçinca earned her PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2025, with a dissertation titled “Worker-Centric AI for Decision Support.” She will hold a joint appointment at MIT Sloan and the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
“We are excited to welcome Zana, to collaborate with and learn from her, and to have our students benefit from her interdisciplinary expertise, including her newly developed MBA course on AI-Augmented Work,” stated IWER Co-Directors Erin L. Kelly and Emilio J. Castilla.
