Team

If you wish to join the team (see openings) !

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Researchers

Prof. Priyank Chandra

Director - STREET Lab
Assistant Professor - Faculty of Information
email: priyank.chandra@utoronto.ca
website: http://www.priyankc.com

  • Postdoc at University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science
  • PhD Information at University of Michigan, USA
  • MS Economics at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India
  • BE Electronics, VTU, India

Phd Students

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Adrian Petterson

PhD student (3rd Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Topics: Disability, carework, design
email: a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca
website: https://www.adrianpetterson.ca/

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Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat

PhD student (2nd Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Topics: Technology, social movements, resistance, labour platforms, caste, marginality
email: ashique.thuppilikkat@mail.utoronto.ca
website: https://ashiquealit.my.canva.site/

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Olivia Doggett

PhD candidate - Faculty of Information and School of Environment, University of Toronto
Topics: Critical computing, migration, environmental studies, CSCW, design research
email: olivia.doggett@gmail.com
website: https://www.oliviadoggett.com/

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Cansu Ekmekcioglu

PhD candidate - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Topics: CSCW, migration and mobilities, time and temporality, critical data studies
email: cansu.ekmekcioglu@mail.utoronto.ca
website: http://ekmekcioglu.website/

Master and Bachelor Students

Ishani Pandey

Masters student in User Experience Design (1st Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Topics: Accessibility, instructional design
email: Ishani.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca

Alana Boisvert

Bachelor’s student in Political Science and Economics (4th Year) - Faculty of Arts and Science
Topics: Resistance, coalition building, accessibility
email: alana.boisvert@mail.utoronto.ca

Carmen Chau

Bachelor’s student in Computer Science and Statistical Science (2nd Year) - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto
Topics: Russian Resistance Movement
email: carmenj.chau@mail.utoronto.ca

Laura Moldoveanu

Bachelor’s student in International Relations and Peace, Conflict & Justice (3rd Year) - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto
Topics: Worker Resistance
email: laura.moldoveanu@mail.utoronto.ca

Emily Su

Bachelor’s student in Statistical Science (3rd Year) - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto
Topics: Social Media and Social Movements, User-Friendly Applications
email: em.su@mail.utoronto.ca

Emily Weckend

Critical Information Policy Studies, Master of Information (2nd year)
Topics: Sex Education, Censorship, TikTok
email: emily.weckend@mail.utoronto.ca

  • Master of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • BA English Literature and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Jaydon Brown

Masters Student in Information Systems and Design (1st Year)
Topics: Transnational Social Movements, Resistance, Coalition Building
email: jaydon.brown@mail.utoronto.ca

  • Master of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • BA in Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, Il

Marco Chan

Masters Student in Information Systems and Design (1st Year)
Topics: Transnational Social Movements, Resistance
email: marcokk.chan@mail.utoronto.ca

  • Master of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

External Researchers

Carolyn Kim Ly

Masters student in User Experience Design (2nd Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

email: ck.ly@mail.utoronto.ca

  • Master of Information, User Experience Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Honours BSc Mathematics and Statistics, Art History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
    • Projects

    Accessiblity Infrastructure in Universities

Trevor Cross

Masters student in User Experience Design (2nd Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

email: trevor.cross@mail.utoronto.ca

Kit Haehnal

Masters student in Culture and Technology (2nd Year) - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

email: kit.haehnel@mail.utoronto.ca

  • Master of Information in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • BA New Media and Neurobiology from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
    • Projects

    Posthumanism, Design, and HCI

Janna Akimova

RA studying the Belarussian Social Movement

  • Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA), focus on Visual Studies & Psychology, The Schools of Public Engagement, The New School, NYC, USA
  • APP in Documentary Film, focus on Visual Theory, The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic
    • Projects

    Belarussian Social Movement

Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

RA working on technology-mediated labour practices of latinx housekeepers in Toronto.

Collaborators

Dr. Cagdas Dedeoglu

Professor, Yorkville University & Founding Director, The Posthuman Lab

email: cdedeoglu@yorkvilleu.ca

Dr. Paridhi Gupta

Swiss Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

  • PhD Gender Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • MPhil Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • MA Sociology at the Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
    • Projects

    Indian Farmer Protests

Alumni

Gozie Nwaka, Masters, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Keith Cheng, Master, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Kit Haehnel

Bethlehem Zebib, Ontario Ministry of Transportation

Alex Parent, PhD, NYU

Azhagu Meena, PhD, Faculty of Information

Moria (Masha) Piroshkova