Tasfia Mashiat is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. She earned her BSc in computer science and engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) in Bangladesh and her MS and PhD in computer science from George Mason University (GMU), where her doctoral advisor was Professor Sanmay Das. Tasfia's research interests lie in algorithmic fairness and AI for social good, with a particular focus on advancing equitable algorithmic decision-making in societal resource allocation contexts such as homeless service delivery systems and eviction risk mitigation.

Before pursuing her PhD, Tasfia served as a full-time teaching faculty at Eastern University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant for several undergraduate and graduate courses in the GMU computer science department, earning the department’s “Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant” award.