Danial Amin

Fairness in Generative AI, FaAct Human Computer Interaction, User Representation, Personas for Social Good, GenAI Personas, Global South

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University of Vaasa

Espoo, Finland

+358 46 801 4291

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Vaasa, Finland, under the supervision of Dr. Joni Salminen focusing on Generative AI (GenAI) and user representation research. Currently, I work as an AI Research Scientist at Samsung Design Innovation Center in France, developing GenAI tools that help designers create more representative products.

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Jun 21, 2025 I graduated from Rennes School of Business as an MBA graduate with distinction under the French Excellence Scholarship Program for Climate Change 2023-2024. read here

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  1. IJHCI
    How Is Generative AI Used for Persona Development?: A Systematic Review of 52 Research Articles
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, and 3 more authors
    International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2025
    In revision
  2. Toward using personas for inclusive design: The question of quantifying diversity in persona sets
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 1 more author
    2025
    In revision
  3. IJHCS
    Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 2 more authors
    International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025
    In revision
  4. CRC Press
    Large language models (LLMs) in human-computer interaction: Using LLM-generated personas to model everything from minority views to entire ecosystems
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 2 more authors
    In Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models: A Scientific Perspective, 2024
    In press
  5. CHI’25
    "When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions
    Sankalp Sethi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, and 1 more author
    In Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025