| May 01, 2026 | Our lab doubled in size in May! Keenan Ung and Kate Percy-Robb are joining Zayn and Sofiia as MASc students |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Kate presented her work on defining conceptions of AI careers at the 2026 University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference. |
| Apr 25, 2026 | MASc student Sofiia was accepted to the prestigous Global Connect Fellowship at NTU Singapore! |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Devon’s and Ryan’s co-first-authored paper “Informing Group Informatics System Design: Balancing the Benefits and Concerns of Data-Driven Collaboration Feedback” has been accepted at CHIWORK 2026! Sharon will be in Linz, Austria to present in June 2026, and in her role as the Accessibility/Diversity co-chair. |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Sharon received funding through the University of Waterloo Global Futures Fund and the Future of Work Insitute for projects relating to AI use and team cohesion (in collaboration with Dr. Sharlene He and Dr. Kim de Laat); AI use and team creativity (in collaboration with Dr. Sharlene He and Dr. Ramona Bobocel); AI-enabled policing technologies and discretion (in collaboration with Dr. Ada Hurst and Dr. Holly Campeau); AI-supported reflection grading (in collaboration with Dr. Sharlene He, Dr. Andrea Prier and Robin Andrade), and building social fitness when returning from remote and hybrid work (in collaboration with Dr. Troy Glover, Dr. Edith Law, Dr. Ramona Bobocel and Dr. Katie Plaisance). |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Sharon received a Graham Seed Fund award for the project entitled A socio-technical readiness framework for AI-driven data capture and workflow analysis in procedural community care settings: The case of AFib Ablation” in collaboration with Dr. Ada Hurst, Dr. Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Dr. William Chan and the Waterloo Regional Health Network. |
| Mar 08, 2026 | Sharon was invited to speak on a Women in Academia panel at the 2026 International Women’s Day Gala at the University of Toronto. |
| Oct 12, 2025 | Sharon will be at CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway supporting the presentation of Marjan’s work: Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams’ Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Sharon received a Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Seed Grant from the University of Waterloo to continue investigating student persistence in Artificial Intelligence. |
| May 26, 2025 | In collaboration with Dr. Anastasia Kuzminykh and Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Sharon led a workshop entitled ``The Role of AI-Empowered Machine Subjectivity in HCI Tasks’’ at the 2025 Graphics Interface Conference in Kelowna, BC. |
| Apr 26, 2025 | Our paper, “Matter of Perspective(s): Contrasting Human and LLM Argumentation in Subjective Decision-Making on Subtle Sexism” was published at CHI 2025, and presented in Yokohama, Japan by Paula Akemi Aoyagui. |
| Jan 01, 2025 | Sharon officially started as an Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo! |
| Dec 02, 2024 | Sharon successfully defended her PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (title: The Future of Engineering Work: Exploring Innovation Influences on Enterprise Communication Platforms) at the University of Toronto. |
| Oct 01, 2024 | Sharon started a visiting studentship in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dr. David Wallace and Dr. James Magarian. |
| Jun 14, 2024 | In collaboration with Dr. Alison Olechowski and Dr. Sirisha Rambhatla, Sharon was awarded the Microsoft AI & The New Future of Work Grant for a project titled “A Novel AI-Powered System for Building Shared Understanding in Teams” |