I am Soraya Partow, a Principal Software Engineer and an M.S. Computer Science student at Georgia Southwestern State University. My work sits at the intersection of AI alignment, multi-agent systems, and the engineering practices required to deploy autonomous systems responsibly at scale.

Over the past decade I have led engineering efforts at Expedia Group, Dell EMC, and Microsoft, spanning large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and ML-supported platforms. That experience shapes how I approach research: I am interested in alignment, evaluation, and governance questions that must survive contact with production — distribution shift, adversarial pressure, organizational constraints, and imperfect human oversight.

My current graduate research develops VAST (Values Alignment & Stability Tracker), a framework for monitoring moral drift in autonomous agents, and a blockchain-backed extension that makes AI governance independently auditable. In parallel, I study grader reliability and reward manipulation in RLHF-style pipelines, and behavioral game-theoretic defenses for IoT and hardware security.

I am preparing to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science focused on trustworthy autonomous systems. I am particularly drawn to problems where formal guarantees, empirical evaluation, and real deployment conditions must be reconciled — and where research contributions can translate into safer systems for people who never see the code.

At a glance

• M.S. Computer Science, Georgia Southwestern State University (in progress).
• Principal Software Engineer with a decade of industry experience.
• Research in AI alignment, multi-agent systems, game theory, and auditable AI.
• Accepted venues: ICAD 2026, IEEE 2026; additional manuscripts under review.