Mustafizur Rahat is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. He holds a BSS and MSS in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Dhaka and a MS in Anthropology, with a focus on Visual and Media Anthropology, from Illinois State University. His research interest lies at the intersection of culture, technology, and society. His work examines how digital environments and emerging technologies shape human experience, social relations, cultural practices, and processes of knowledge and meaning-making. His research interests also include digital ethnography, human-AI interaction, user experience research (UXR), human-centered design, as well as folklore and intangible cultural heritage. Drawing on ethnographic, visual, and interdisciplinary approaches, his work explores questions of technology, agency, power, and representation in digitally mediated social worlds.