Alkhamissi works on themes relating to diaspora, exile, migration, revolt and social change. Aside from her dissertation research, she also works in collaboration with computer scientists to detect biases and parse out cultural trends in large language models such as ChatGPT. Her dissertation project examines waves of Egyptians who left Egypt over the course of three generations due to political reasons. She studies the conceptual difference between exiles and immigrants, proposing a feminist understanding of the experiences of mobility and displacement and examining the intellectual history of Arabic terms relating to the experience, such as ghorba and manfa. Over the past year, she wrote a paper with Dr. Mona Diab, Mohamed Nokrashy and Badr Alkhamissi. It is currently under review for publication and will be presented at the International Conference for Computational Social Science this summer. She will start an internship at the Language and Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University this Mayding of what democracy is and different definitions of the political.