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 140+ active researchers across 20 academic disciplines representing 34 faculties and departments 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.
William Cunningham
Faculty Fellow, 2023–25
Psychology, social cognition, reinforcement learning, cognitive science, computational modeling, emotional and evaluative states.
Daniela Galatro
Faculty Fellow, 2023–25
Chemical engineering, applied chemistry, applied machine learning, causal modeling, data analysis, environment and health.
Shion Guha
Faculty Fellow, 2023–25
Computer science, computational social science, human-centered data science, human-computer interaction, AI and public policy/services, algorithmic bias.
Kristina McElheran
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Strategic management, business administration, organizational design and IT, digital economies, data-driven decision-making, technology start-ups.
Semra Sevi
Faculty Fellow, 2024–26
Voting behaviour, political representation, public opinion, legislative politics, women and politics, partisanship, political methodology.
Avery Slater
Faculty Fellow, 2023–25
Literature, poetry and poetics, ecocriticism, human and nonhuman language, technologies of language, histories of information and computation, artificial intelligence.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Mitchell Bosley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computational social science and social choice, political economy, applied machine learning, AI-based software, computational modeling, statistical methodology.
Toryn Qwyllyn Klassen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer science, artificial intelligence, AI safety, reinforcement learning, knowledge representation.
Hayane Dahmen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Economic law, public policy, competition policy, artificial intelligence, AI ethics, trade law, AI and antitrust laws, AI governance.
Sriram Subramanian
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer science, multi-agent systems, sequential decision-making, Bayesian optimization, reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Jessica Hall
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, foundations of computing, computation and intelligence, mathematical and computational modeling.
Graduate Fellows
Ananya Bhattacharjee
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Human-computer interaction, human-AI collaboration, social computing, large language models, mental health, education, information communications technology for development.
Jessica Bo
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Computer science, human-AI interactions, AI explainability, behavioural analysis, human-centered design, generative AI.
Joshua Brecka
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Philosophy, social and traditional epistemology, theories of trust, philosophy of ethics.
Manuela Collis
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Strategic management, organizations, gender and inequality, labor, automation and digitization, experimental methods, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Micaela Elisa Consens
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Machine learning, machine learning and genomics, AI, genome language models, interpretability, pre-training task design.
Rebekah Gelpí
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Computational models of social cognition, cognitive development, multi-agent reinforcement learning, large language models.
Cristina Getson
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Human-robot interaction, psychology of human-AI interaction, engineering design, human-centered design, design for vulnerable populations, AI ethics, persuasive technology.
Ben Li
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
AI in healthcare, surgery, vascular disease, machine learning, predictive modelling.
Madison Mackley
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Information policy, data governance, alternative digital economies, smart cities, privacy, feminist STS.
Erina (Seh-Young) Moon
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Information, fairness in sociotechnical systems, machine learning, resource allocation, homelessness.
Emmanuel Taiwo
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Sustainability transitions, just and equitable climate and energy transitions, low-carbon energy technology innovation systems, AI for social good.
Balagopal Unnikrishnan
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Computer science, AI in healthcare, shortcut learning and biases in healthcare, debiasing AI algorithms.
Joseph Wilson
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Communication, sociolinguistics, semiconductors, AI and society, science and technology studies, linguistic anthropology.
Siyi Wu
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Climate informatics, human-computer interaction, human-centered AI, explainable AI.
Fernando Yánez
Graduate Fellow, 2024–25
Applied machine learning, information visualization, human-computer interaction, educational technology, personalized learning, user-adaptive systems.
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.
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.
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.
Ron Buliung
Disability studies, ableism studies, transportation planning, disability rights, AI and data governance, AI and human augmentation, universal design.
Marsha Chechik
Computer science, safety and security in software engineering, automated verification, formal quality improvement methods, model management.
Brian Cox
Pregnancy, bioinformatics, multi-modal data models, developmental biology, cell biology, classification models.
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.
Paul H. Dietz
Human-computer interaction, education, technology start-ups.
John 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.
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.
Gillian Hadfield
AI alignment and governance, law, design of legal systems, economics, public policy, normativity.
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.
Michael Inzlicht
Psychology, management, self-control, motivation, effort, social media, digital device overuse, political polarization, recreational drug use.
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.
Travis LaCroix
Value alignment, AI ethics, social dynamics, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, philosophy of science.
Nicola Lacetera
Ethical and social support to markets, motivations for altruistic behaviour, behavioral economics, industrial and innovation economics.
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.
Carmen Logie
Sexually transmitted infections, mental health, intersectionality, global health, LGBTQ wellbeing, Northern and Indigenous youth wellbeing, refugees, displaced and asylum-seeking youth.
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.
Tegan Maharaj
Computer science, human-computer interaction, ethics in AI, social justice.
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.
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.
Anita McGahan
Strategic management, global affairs, public policy, industry change, sustainable competitive advantage, global health, global knowledge distribution.
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.
Keith Pardee
Synthetic biology, molecular engineering, low-burden health technologies, diagnostics, portable drug manufacturing, computational design, cell-free systems, field validation of technologies.
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.
Toniann Pitassi
Computer science, fairness in artificial intelligence, information systems, biased data, computational complexity.
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.
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.
Leslie Regan Shade
Information and communication technologies, political economy, public policy, information infrastructures and social norms, digital privacy, equity and diversity, civic engagement.
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.
Brian Cantwell Smith
Philosophy of computation, philosophy of artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, metaphysics and ontology.
Robert Soden
Human computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, science and technology studies, humanitarianism, critical data studies, environmental data justice.
Abi Sriharan
Health technology, digital health policy, automation, digital labour, human-aligned AI, strategic management.
Suzanne Stevenson
Computational linguistics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, machine learning of semantic and syntactic data, computation of human language acquisition.
Eva Vivalt
Economics, labour economics, development economics, forecasting, causal inference, external validity, decision-making.
Denis Walsh
Philosophy, history and philosophy of science, natural agency, evolution of systems, adaptation, evolution.
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.
Richard Zemel
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, algorithmic fairness, generative models of images and text, representation learning, meta-learning, causal models, graph-based machine learning.
Shurui Zhou
Computer science, software engineering, computational social science, open-source, collaborative software development, AI-based software, scientific software.
Yu Zou
AI for materials design, advanced manufacturing, engineering, AI for social good.
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.
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.
Michael Colacci
Public health, health policy and evaluation, AI governance and safety, AI in healthcare, algorithmic fairness in clinical medicine.
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.
Blake Lee-Whiting
Political science, politics of technology, survey research, political behaviour, automation.
Morgan MacInnes
Political science, international relations, international security, geopolitics, security & technology, governance of technology, macro-history, statecraft.
Kelly McConvey
Information, surveillance, algorithm design in education, algorithmic bias and fairness, human-centred data science.
Felix Menze
Medical biophysics, computational neuroscience, simulated driving, public safety, cognitive impairment.
Shashank Motepalli
Computer science, distributed computing, blockchain, crypto-economics, governance, behavioural sciences.
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal
Information, fairness in sociotechnical systems, machine learning, social networks.
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.
Silviu Pitis
Computer science, machine learning, intelligent agent design, AI for social good, normative design of general purpose AI.
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.
Emily Schwartzman
Psychology, social perception, stereotyping, gender, discrimination, social cognition, AI for social justice.
Jad Sinno
Queer adult health, sexual and gender minority health, mental health, online dating apps, human-technology interactions.
Bilal Taha
Computer science, biometrics systems, affective computing, security and privacy, human-computer interaction.
Michael Zhang
Computer science, neural network optimization, machine learning, AI safety.
Yuxing (Yolanda) Zhang
Critical data studies, AI ethics, media theory, platform studies, critical infrastructural studies, knowledge politics, digital labor, digital humanities.
Staff
Maggie Arai
Policy Lead
David Baldridge
Policy Researcher
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
Anna Li
Research Engagement Officer (on leave)
Sandria Officer
Research Engagement Officer
Simone Rodrigue
Executive Assistant & Events Coordinator
Emily Saso
Research Communications Specialist
Jamie Sandhu
Policy Researcher
Marco Monteiro Silva
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications (on leave)