Our Community
The Schwartz Reisman Institute (SRI) is an interdisciplinary network of researchers across STEM, social sciences, and humanities exploring the applications and social impacts of powerful technologies like AI.
The SRI community is composed of 160+ active researchers across 24 academic disciplines representing 62 departments and faculties at the University of Toronto and beyond.
Faculty Fellows
Zubin Austin
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Legal and regulatory systems for AI, workplace and workforce implications of AI in health professional practice.
Felix Cheung
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Psychology, population well-being, well-being science, quantitative data analysis, technology and quality of life, open science.
Kristina McElheran
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Strategic management, business administration, organizational design and IT, digital economies, data-driven decision-making, technology start-ups.
Bruce Schneier
Visiting Senior Policy Fellow, 2025–26
Cybersecurity, digital privacy, AI security, AI and integrity, AI and trust, AI and democracy, future of democracy.
Semra Sevi
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Voting behaviour, political representation, public opinion, legislative politics, women and politics, partisanship, political methodology.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Toryn Qwyllyn Klassen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer science, artificial intelligence, AI safety, reinforcement learning, knowledge representation.
Graduate Fellows
Mai Ali
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Machine learning, AI for healthcare, remote monitoring, mental health prediction.
Benjamin Cookson
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Computer science, algorithmic economics, social choice theory, algorithmic fairness, game theory.
Congyu Fang
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Trustworthy machine learning, machine learning for healthcare, machine learning for science.
Mathew Iantorno
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Marketing, retail labour, automation, AI, self-service, supermarkets, digital humanities, media archaeology, urban space, hostile design, accessible technology
Rachel Katz
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Ethical issues in AI, moral philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of psychiatry, human-AI interaction.
Kexin (Cassie) Li
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Trustworthy machine learning, AI security, privacy.
Nanyu Luo
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Psychometrics, statistics, human-aligned AI, quantitative psychology, statistical machine learning.
Kaushar Mahetaji
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Communication and media studies, platform studies, software tools, platform governance, platform economies, infrastructure, data.
David-Dan Nguyen
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Clinical epidemiology, health services research, health equity, machine learning in healthcare, predictive modeling, urology, oncology.
Adebukola (Bukky) Shonibare
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Law, sociolegal studies, criminology, technology, AI, survivor-centred AI, AI-assisted justice.
Priyanka Verma
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Computer science, algorithmic fairness, financial technologies design, social choice, cooperatives, data practices and tools.
Darsana Vijay
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Critical media studies, journalism, platform studies, South Asian studies.
Suhyeon Yoo
Graduate Fellow, 2025–26
Human-computer interaction, accessibility, creativity support, human-AI interaction, deaf music.
Faculty Affiliates
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Computer science, human-computer interaction, ethics in AI, social justice.
Benjamin Alarie
Law, law and technology, AI in public policy, decision-making.
Sharla Alegria
Race, gender and class, science knowledge and technology, organizations, occupations and work, AI and inequality.
Rohan Alexander
Information, statistical sciences, workflow analysis, natural language processing, multilevel regression with post-stratification.
Michelle Alexopoulos
Economics, macroeconomics, business cycles, growth and technological change, labour markets.
Meena Andiappan
Health policy and management, public health, normative ethics, analysis of emotion, organizational studies.
Samin Aref
Mathematical modeling, data science, applied machine learning, sociotechnical systems, computational social science.
Lisa Austin
Law, legal theory, law and technology, privacy and transparency legislation.
Boris Babic
Philosophy, statistics, decision theory, epistemology, Bayesian interference, data science, machine learning, explainability and ethics of AI.
Ebrahim Bagheri
Information retrieval, social media analytics, responsible AI, knowledge graphs.
Mohammed Basheer
Civil engineering, water resource systems, hydrology, hydraulics, dams and hydropower, environmental monitoring, water-energy-food nexus.
Ali Bereyhi
Information theory, statistical learning, distributed learning, sparse recovery and compressed sensing, statistical physics and information processing, applications of deep learning in communication systems, generative models.
LK Bertram
Disinformation, knowledge mobilization, history, social media, algorithmic literacy, policy, elections integrity, public outreach.
Mamatha Bhat
Liver Transplantation, artificial intelligence, equity, AI development and deployment in clinical settings.
Venkat Bhat
Medicine, interventional psychiatry, mental health, digital and AI-driven therapeutic interventions, informatics, computational neuroscience.
Jordan Brensinger
Sociology, science and technology studies, data governance, neurotechnology, privacy, political economy, economic insecurity.
Ron Buliung
Disability studies, ableism studies, transportation planning, disability rights, AI and data governance, AI and human augmentation, universal design.
Timothy C.Y. Chan
Operations research, optimization, AI in healthcare.
Marsha Chechik
Computer science, safety and security in software engineering, automated verification, formal quality improvement methods, model management.
Huili Chen
Human-AI interaction, cognitive science, AI for human flourishing, ethics in AI, social robotics, machine understanding, human-aligned AI.
Michael Colacci
Public health, health policy and evaluation, AI governance and safety, AI in healthcare, algorithmic fairness in clinical medicine.
Steven Coyne
Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, AI ethics, ethics of technology, business ethics, ecofeminism.
Elliot Creager
Computer science, machine learning, algorithmic bias and fairness, deep learning.
William Cunningham
Psychology, social cognition, reinforcement learning, cognitive science, computational modeling, emotional and evaluative states.
Hayane Dahmen
Economic law, public policy, competition policy, artificial intelligence, AI ethics, trade law, AI and antitrust laws, AI governance.
Rutwa Engineer
Computer science education, pedagogical innovation, AI in education, work-integrated learning, critical algorithmic literacies, ethics in computing, correctional computing education.
Jack Enman-Beech
Law, contracts, law and society, queer and feminist legal theory, law and economics, employment law, consumer law, user law, platforms.
Sharon Ferguson
Human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, future of work, virtual collaboration, computational social science, human-AI collaboration.
Daniela Galatro
Chemical engineering, applied chemistry, applied machine learning, causal modeling, data analysis, environment and health.
Joshua Gans
Economics, strategic management, AI and society, economics of new technologies, entrepreneurial strategy, innovation policy.
Marzyeh Ghassemi
Computer science, medicine, biomedical engineering, machine learning in healthcare, algorithmic fairness.
Jennifer Gibson
Health policy, organizational ethics in healthcare, public health, resource allocation in health, bioethics.
Igor Gilitschenski
Robotics and robot perception, automated vehicles, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning.
Avi Goldfarb
Economics of technology, data science, artificial intelligence in healthcare, economics of privacy, digital marketing.
Paolo Granata
Communications, media ecology, medium theory, philosophy of technology, media ethics, digital equity.
Rafael Grohmann
Labour, data work, AI in cultural industries, AI and cooperatives, worker-led AI governance, AI policies and world of work.
Shion Guha
Computer science, computational social science, human-centered data science, human-computer interaction, AI and public policy/services, algorithmic bias.
Seva Gunitsky
Comparative autocracy, AI and authoritarianism, Russian AI strategy.
Gillian Hadfield
AI alignment and governance, law, design of legal systems, economics, public policy, normativity.
Brian Harrington
Computer science education, ethics of technology, ethics of artificial intelligence, skill development, equitable assessment.
Safwat Hassan
Generative and explainable AI for information systems maintenance and design, foundation models for software engineering, information systems analytics, mining software repositories, DevOps, AIOps, requirements engineering.
Jason Hattrick-Simpers
Materials science, applied ML, autonomous science platforms, interpretability, statistical models, human-AI interaction.
Graeme Hirst
Natural language processing, computational linguistics, ethics of technology, AI in healthcare.
Diane Horton
Computer science, teaching ethics of technology, computer science education research, assessment.
Alice Huang
AI ethics, opinion dynamics, social networks, computational models of group decision making, social epistemology.
Alec Jacobson
Computer graphics, geometry processing, creative tools for visual artists.
Zhijing Jin
Natural language processing, large language models, computational social science, machine learning, AI safety, causal inference, policy evaluation, AI for science, philosophy of science.
Steve Joordens
Educational psychology, technology, AI, skill development, formative learning, formative assessment, preventative mental health.
Tero Karppi
Social media, computational culture, software studies, affect theory, media theory.
Jonathan Kelly
Robotics, collaborative robots, robot perception, human-robot interaction, embodied intelligence, artificial general intelligence, safe AI systems.
Vera Khovanskaya
Labor, automation and technological change, worker advocacy, HCI, CSCW, worker-centered software, data tools, community-driven technology design.
Marlène Koffi
Economics, economics of machine learning, economics of innovation, economics of science, inequality, AI in public policy.
Noam Kolt
Law, governance of artificial intelligence, institutional design, automation in the legal system.
Daniel Konikoff
Value alignment, AI ethics, social dynamics, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, philosophy of science.
Leonid Kosals
Sociology of innovation, criminology, economic sociology, corruption in policing, comparative social research.
Rahul G. Krishnan
Machine learning in healthcare, causal inference, Bayesian and probabilistic modeling, trustworthy machine learning, computational tools for model auditing.
Anastasia Kuzminykh
Human-computer interaction, computer science, information science, explainable AI, ethical AI, human-AI collaboration, AI decision support, conversational UI.
Nicola Lacetera
Ethical and social support to markets, motivations for altruistic behaviour, behavioral economics, industrial and innovation economics.
Travis LaCroix
Value alignment, AI ethics, social dynamics, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, philosophy of science.
Bowen Li
RNA medicines, AI-driven nanomedicine, mRNA vaccines, gene editing, lipid nanoparticles, nonviral delivery, immunotherapy.
Evan Light
Creative interventions to start policy conversations, public policy, emerging technologies, regulatory innovation, surveillance, privacy.
David Liu
Computer science education, pedagogical software, software engineering
Peter Loewen
Political science, global affairs and public policy, decision-making, elections, governance, incorporating technology into governance.
Kelly Lyons
Information, computer science, service science, knowledge mobilization, social media, collaborative work, service systems, data-driven knowledge mobilization.
Michael Mack
Psychology, cognition and cognitive neuroscience, computational modelling, human learning and memory.
Chris Maddison
Computer science, machine learning, structure learning, Bayesian inference, numerical optimization, explainability and interpretability in artificial intelligence.
Steve Mann
Engineering, science, mathematics, brain-sensing technologies, humanistic intelligence, extended reality, intelligent image processing, comparametric equations, wavelets, chirplets.
Peter Marbach
Online social systems, online social networks, recommendation algorithms, opinion dynamics, online markets, large-scale stochastic systems.
Paula Maurutto
AI in law and criminal justice, surveillance, ethics and equity.
Susan McCahan
Energy systems, engineering design, educational technology, pedagogical innovation.
Bree McEwan
Virtual reality, technological affordances, interpersonal communication, social media, social media data analytics, information diffusion, and polarisation/misinformation.
Rhonda McEwen
Communication, information technology, cultural studies, new media theory, interaction studies, human-machine communication, embodied cognition, virtual reality.
Evi Micha
Computational social choice, algorithmic fairness, pluralistic AI alignment, voting theory, economics.
David B. Nieborg
Communication and media studies, critical political economy, platform studies, app studies, cultural production, platform governance and infrastructures, critical data studies.
Aleksandar (Sasho) Nikolov
Computer science, theories of computation, algorithm design, high dimensional geometry, differential privacy, data analysis.
Lynette H. Ong
Political science, autocracies, state power, repression, governance, contentious politics, developments.
Nicolas Papernot
Computer engineering, computer science, computer security, machine learning, privacy.
Vardan Papyan
Computer science, machine learning, deep learning, signal processing, high-performance computing, high-dimensional statistics, applied mathematics.
Keith Pardee
Synthetic biology, molecular engineering, low-burden health technologies, diagnostics, portable drug manufacturing, computational design, cell-free systems, field validation of technologies.
Jason Plaks
Social psychology, folk beliefs, moral decision making, human-robot interaction.
Matt Ratto
Information, human-computer interaction, intersections between humanities and engineering, modes of production, healthcare software and hardware.
Martin Revermann
Performance criticism, history and sociology of Greek theatre, history and theory of translation, history of science, theatre and religion.
Laura Rosella
Public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, big data in healthcare, analytics and risk in healthcare.
Paula Rowland
Sociology of professions, sociology of expertise, values and ethics of healthcare improvement, sociotechnical imaginaries, digitalization of healthcare work.
Tim G. J. Rudner
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, AI safety, generative models, AI governance.
Frank Rudzicz
Computer science, signal processing, speech, language, machine learning, artificial intelligence in healthcare, entrepreneurship.
Atrisha Sarkar
Game theory, AI safety, automated vehicles, behavioural modelling, computational modelling.
Shreyas Sekar
Data-driven optimization, revenue management and pricing, digital marketplace design, machine learning, e-commerce, information architecture design.
Zahra Shakeri
Artificial intelligence, digital health tools, information visualization, natural language processing, precision public health.
Xujie Si
Computer science, program synthesis and verification, automated reasoning, neuro-symbolic AI, reliable and explainable AI.
Nathalie Smuha
Law, philosophy, law and technology, AI ethics and regulation, digital constitutionalism.
Abi Sriharan
Health technology, digital health policy, automation, digital labour, human-aligned AI, strategic management.
Sriram Subramanian
Computer science, multi-agent systems, sequential decision-making, Bayesian optimization, reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Pascal Tyrrell
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, medical imaging, biostatistics, global health.
Eva Vivalt
Economics, labour economics, development economics, forecasting, causal inference, external validity, decision-making.
Bo Wang
Computer science, medicine, computational biology, computer vision, machine learning in health, privacy and personalized medicine.
Rosalie Wang
Rehabilitation science, occupational therapy, assistive and rehabilitation technology, technology development and evaluation, user-centred design, ethics, social and health equity.
Joseph Jay Williams
Human-computer interaction, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, cognitive psychology, digital education, mental health.
Wendy H. Wong
Political science, international human rights, politics of organization, collective action, global governance of artificial intelligence.
Ningning Xie
Computer science, programming languages, compilers, type theory, logics, machine learning programming.
Jia Xue
AI for social justice, big data in social work, Twitter analysis in intimate and sexual violence research, human centered NLP, rape myth in China, computational social science.
Shana Ye
Queer studies, transnational feminism, transgender studies, feminist and science and technology studies, critical media studies, postsocialist studies, sino-postcolonialism, creative ethnography, cultural studies immersive techonologies, VR/XR/MR, science fiction.
Weilai Yu
Electrochemical engineering for sustainability, materials and interfaces, surface science, clean energy techno-economics, AI-driven materials discovery.
Shurui Zhou
Computer science, software engineering, computational social science, open-source, collaborative software development, AI-based software, scientific software.
Postdoctoral Affiliates
Miron Clay-Gilmore
Philosophy of AI, Africana philosophy, Black male studies.
Daniel Harris
AI alignment, existential risks.
Silviu Pitis
Computer science, AI alignment, machine learning, reward functions, task specification.
Graduate Affiliates
Taneea S. Agrawaal
Computer science, human-computer interaction, climate modeling, ethics and explainability of AI, critical data studies, civic engagement, design for marginalized communities.
Parand Alizadeh Alamdari
Computer science, artificial intelligence, AI safety, fairness in artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning.
Reem Ayad
Social psychology, moral psychology, moral judgment and decision making, human-robot interaction.
Michael Beauvais
Law, data protection, children's studies, surveillance studies.
Alexander Bernier
Law, economics, regulatory strategies, biomedical research.
Ananya Bhattacharjee
Human-computer interaction, human-AI collaboration, social computing, large language models, mental health, education, information communications technology for development.
Jessica Bo
Computer science, human-AI interactions, AI explainability, behavioural analysis, human-centered design, generative AI.
Joshua Brecka
Philosophy, social and traditional epistemology, theories of trust, philosophy of ethics.
Hiu-Fung Chung
Digital labor, care and technology, inequality, science and technology studies, East Asia.
Madelaine Coelho
Technologically-facilitated violence, digital violence prevention, gamification in healthcare, global technology use, sociology of technology.
Manuela Collis
Strategic management, organizations, gender and inequality, labor, automation and digitization, experimental methods, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Micaela Elisa Consens
Machine learning, machine learning and genomics, AI, genome language models, interpretability, pre-training task design.
Jamie Duncan
Criminology and sociolegal studies, information policy, technology and data governance, technology in security, migration, and policing.
Anne-Marie Fowler
Philosophies of temporality, ethics, philosophy of science, AI ethics, epistemology, human and AI learning.
Rebekah Gelpí
Computational models of social cognition, cognitive development, multi-agent reinforcement learning, large language models.
Cristina Getson
Human-robot interaction, psychology of human-AI interaction, engineering design, human-centered design, design for vulnerable populations, AI ethics, persuasive technology.
Blake Lee-Whiting
Political science, politics of technology, survey research, political behaviour, automation.
Ben Li
AI in healthcare, surgery, vascular disease, machine learning, predictive modelling.
Morgan MacInnes
Political science, international relations, international security, geopolitics, security & technology, governance of technology, macro-history, statecraft.
Madison Mackley
Information policy, data governance, alternative digital economies, smart cities, privacy, feminist STS.
Kelly McConvey
Information, surveillance, algorithm design in education, algorithmic bias and fairness, human-centred data science.
Erina (Seh-Young) Moon
Information, fairness in sociotechnical systems, machine learning, resource allocation, homelessness.
Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello
Social psychology, social cognition, computational social science, social media and online social platforms.
Jo-Ann Osei-Twum
Public health, epidemiology, data science, AI in healthcare, predictive modeling for population health, public policy.
Lief Pagalan
Public health, epidemiology, predictive modelling for population health, environment and health, health policy, equity and algorithmic fairness.
Han Qiao
Information, human-computer interaction, civic technology, sensemaking, data visualization, participatory design, urban planning, design justice.
Wenjun Qiu
Privacy and security, mobile user privacy, natural language processing, artificial intelligence.
Aida Ramezani
Computer science, cognitive science, natural language processing, computational social science, moral language inference.
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Post-secular HCI, CSCW, ethics, politics, pluralism, decolonizing data science, sustainability, content moderation, after-use phase of technologies.
Emmanuel Taiwo
Sustainability transitions, just and equitable climate and energy transitions, low-carbon energy technology innovation systems, AI for social good.
Balagopal Unnikrishnan
Computer science, AI in healthcare, shortcut learning and biases in healthcare, debiasing AI algorithms.
Joseph Wilson
Communication, sociolinguistics, semiconductors, AI and society, science and technology studies, linguistic anthropology.
Siyi Wu
Climate informatics, human-computer interaction, human-centered AI, explainable AI.
Fernando Yánez
Applied machine learning, information visualization, human-computer interaction, educational technology, personalized learning, user-adaptive systems.
Yuxing (Yolanda) Zhang
Critical data studies, AI ethics, media theory, platform studies, critical infrastructural studies, knowledge politics, digital labor, digital humanities.
Staff
Daniel Browne
Associate Director, Research Engagement
Kyle Coulter
Communications Specialist
Jennifer Cressman
Executive Assistant
Alicia Demanuele
Policy Researcher
Olivia DiGiuseppe
Event Specialist
Jovana Jankovic
Research & Communications Specialist (on leave)
Helena Ko
Business Officer (on leave)
Simone Rodrigue
Executive Assistant & Events Coordinator
Jamie Sandhu
Policy Researcher
Marco Monteiro Silva
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications
Michael Strizic
Research & Communications Specialist