Scholar
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Google Scholar ID: A42gaP4AAAAJ
University of Toronto
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,855
H-index
38
i10-index
103
Publications
20
Co-authors
183
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Contact
Publications
Cited
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NSERC DISCOVERY Award (Apr '25)
- Winner of School of Cities 'Data and Inequality' Challenge 2025 (Mar '25)
- Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards: Microsoft AI & Society Fellowship ('24), Google Award for Inclusion Research ('23), Connaught Scholarship ('23), Facebook Faculty Research Award ('22), Schwartz Reisman Fellowship ('21), Massey Fellowship ('21), Google exploreCSR Award ('20, '24), Youth Policy Forum Fellowship ('20), Fulbright Centennial Fellowship ('19), Global Young Academy Membership ('19), Connaught New Researcher Award ('18), Intel Technology and Society Fellowship ('15), Fulbright S&T Fellowship ('11), OpenStreetMap Scholarship ('10)
- Research funded by all three Canadian federal tri-council agencies: NSERC, CIHR, and SSHRC
- Published public-facing articles in ACM Interactions, Daily Star, Prothom Alo, and others
- Delivered keynote 'Fear of Small Data' at Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2024
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- Director, Third Space research group, DGP Lab
- Co-director of the PRISM program
- Keynote speaker at PDC '24 and EAAMO '24
- Program Committee Chair for ICTD '22 and IndiaHCI '22
Background
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto
- Director of the Third Space research group at the DGP Lab
- Affiliated faculty at UofT iSchool, School of Environment, School of Cities, and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
- Co-organizes the monthly UofT Critical Computing Seminar focusing on marginalization, bias, and oppression in computing
- Co-directs the PRISM program training students from marginalized communities for CS higher education
- Serves on the university’s Ethics Review Board (REB)
- Teaches 'Computers and Society' and 'Ethical Aspects of AI'
- Research focuses on Ethics in AI, especially building responsible AI with voices from underprivileged communities
- Advocates for community-based participatory AI development and questions ethical foundations of AI systems
- Publishes regularly in top venues including CHI, CSCW, FaccT, ICTD, DIS, and COMPASS
