Harvard GSECurrently at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Hi, I'm Alma.
I build & study tools for learning.

Between product, learning science, and applied AI.

A product manager, researcher, and data science enthusiast asking one question on loop: How might we build tech tools that deepen learning and curiousity?

01 — Now

About me.

I grew up in Kosovo flag Kosovo, where the internet was my lab, my library, and my classroom rolled into one. That early self-directed, relentless curiosity is still the engine behind everything I do.

Today I'm getting my Ed.M. at Harvard's Learning, Design, Innovation and Technology track while leading product for AI-driven classroom tools at Elite Education. I care about the messy middle: where research on how people learn meets the design choices that actually make it into a classroom.

I build

Shipping AI products that survive contact with real classrooms and independent learners.

I research

Measuring what's actually happening — cognitive load, participation, learning.

I advise

Helping teams design curriculum, policy, and tools that fit how people actually learn.

02 — Work

Selected work.

Work
Elite Education · Product Manager

An AI co-pilot for live classroom discussions

Teachers track who's speaking, who's quiet, and which ideas land — without a dashboard that pulls them out of the room. Early pilots show lower cognitive load, more voluntary participation from quiet students, and teachers noticing patterns they used to miss.

Product StrategyAI / NLPLearning Design
Writing & Curriculum
Elite Education · Independent

County AI Literacy Curriculum Development

Designed an end-to-end AI literacy curriculum adopted across a county government — establishing a shared baseline for 4,000+ employees.

Curriculum DesignEssaysLearning Science
Research
Undergraduate thesis · Minerva

Stigma vs. support in mental-health online discourse

Compared public posts about depression, OCD, and ADHD against evidence-informed descriptions. Found peer support and distortion sitting side by side — indistinguishable to readers. Started as an ML project, ended as a measurement problem.

NLPEducational PsychologyMeasurement
Side quest
Hack for Social Impact · 2nd place

UN Document AI Translator

Fine-tuned MarianMT on the UN Parallel Corpora and shipped a translator workflow that hits 93%+ cosine similarity to human translation — cutting the busywork around multilingual policy work.

MarianMTHugging FaceFastAPI

03 — Path

Backtracing.

  1. Harvard University

    → 2026

    Harvard GSE · Learning, Design, Innovation, and Technology

    Stronger grounding in learning science so design choices are defensible, not just intuitive.
  2. Elite Education

    2022 — now

    Elite Education

    Product/Project Manager.

    Led and strategized the development of 5+ EdTech products — from learner tools to classroom tools to internal mentoring and curriculum management systems — and at times, developed curriculum.
  3. University of California San Francisco

    2022

    University of California San Francisco

    Junior Data Scientist.

    Learned to work with vast amount of genomic data, and translate complex data insights for non-technical teams.
  4. University of Chicago

    2021

    UChicago · Data Science Institute

    Junior Data Scientist.

    NLP on 40k+ tweets. Stepping stone to measuring meaning at scale in an academic research environment.
  5. Minerva University

    Research Assistant (Educational Psychology).

    Exploring nuance in the learning of science and how technology aids learning. Also a Teaching Assistant for Theories of Cognition and Emotion.
  6. Minerva University

    2018 — '22

    Minerva University

    B.Sc. Computer Science & Social Sciences. Got obsessed with how people learn — and how machines learn, too.
  7. Respect Our Rights

    Then

    Respect Our Rights

    Founding member of ROR, a nation-wide, child-led organization in Kosovo advocating for children's rights.

04 — Thinking

Principles I keep coming back to.

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On learning

"Intentional learning is effortful.

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05 — CONTACT

Working on something at the edge of learning & AI?

I'd love to hear about it. I'm always up for thoughtful conversations, research collabs, or a good cup of coffee in Cambridge.