Oct 16, 2025: Delivered a talk for Georgia Tech's IPaT GVU Lunch Lecture Series
Oct 1, 2025: Delivered a talk for UC San Diego's Design Lab Research Meeting
Sep 26, 2025: Delivered a talk for University of Michigan's HCI Seminar
Sep 23, 2025: Delivered a guest lecture for Dr. Rajalakshmi Nandkumar's course at Cornell Tech
Sep 22, 2025: Delivered a talk for Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto
Runs the Computational Health and Interaction (CHAI) lab, leveraging ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables to address health-related problems
Uses sensor data from momentary assessments or passive recordings with signal processing and machine learning to generate digital biomarkers related to physiology, context, and behavior
Research spans topics at the intersection of ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction, including mobile interaction, user-centered design, and novel sensing techniques
Also an Affiliate Scientist at KITE@UHN, Education Faculty Affiliate for T-CAIREM, and Faculty Fellow at AXL (a Toronto-based venture studio for human-centric AI)