Mehnaz Rafi

Mehnaz Rafi is a PhD candidate and sessional instructor at the University of Calgary. Before pursuing her PhD in Organizational Behavior, she received her MSc in management from Smith School of Business at Queen's University. She also has a BA with first-class Honours in Organizational Psychology from the University of Calgary.

As a researcher, she is interested in how uncertainty shapes employees' experiences, perceptions, and reactions at work. Specifically, she explores the interrelationships between uncertainty, leadership, diversity, and algorithms. She has presented her research on artificial intelligence and algorithms at large-scale conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Rafi likes her work to be meaningful and impactful. As such, she likes to disseminate and communicate the findings from her research to the general public through open-source platforms such as The Conversation. She also provides consultations to companies to apply her knowledge of scientific scholarship to problem-solving in real-world contexts.