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Faculty of Information

Anastasia Kuzminykh

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • HCI
  • Organization of Knowledge
  • UbiComp

Office: N/A
Website
Email: anastasia.kuzminykh@utoronto.ca

Andrew Clement

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical information studies
  • Human-centred systems development
  • Identity, privacy, and surveillance
  • Information systems, media, and design
  • Public interest information policies
  • Social implications of information and communication technology

Office: 416-978-3111
Website
Email: andrew.clement@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cara Krmpotich

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Collections management
  • Importance of repatriation for healing in families & communities
  • Museum - Indigenous relations
  • Museum studies
  • Repatriation

Office: 416-978-7802
Website
Email: cara.krmpotich@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Colin Furness

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Effective design of information systems to support collaborative knowledge work
  • Information architecture
  • Information systems evaluation
  • Knowledge management
  • Organizational learning
  • Quantitative methods in public health epidemiology

Office: +1-416-978-4770
Website
Email: colin.furness@utoronto.ca

Ebrahim Bagheri

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data & Society
  • Information Behaviour
  • Social media
  • Software & Systems

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ebrahim.bagheri@utoronto.ca

Gustavo Ferreira Santos

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • audio media technologies (radio/podcasting/social media and streaming platforms)
  • Critical Pedagogies of Culture & Technology
  • music circulation and curation
  • recommender systems

Office: N/A
Languages: Portuguese,English,French
Website
Email: gustavo.ferreira@utoronto.ca

Irina D. Mihalache

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Curatorial practice
  • Domestic kitchens and material culture
  • Food and museums
  • Food media
  • Historic culinary ephemera (cookbooks and menus)
  • Museum interpretation
  • Museums and migrants
  • Restaurant cultures

Office: 416-946-5364
Languages: Romanian, French
Website
Email: irina.mihalache@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Javed Mostafa

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • cyberinfrastructure for research and learning * health informatics
  • personalization and user modeling

Office: N/A
Languages: Bengali
Website
Email: dr.javedm@utoronto.ca

Leslie Shade

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian media and digital policy
  • Gender and media
  • Political economy of communication
  • Privacy and social media
  • Youth and media

Office: 416-978-7110
Website
Email: leslie.shade@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nadia Caidi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and production
  • Information policy
  • Information practices of ethno-cultural communities, Information seeking behaviour of marginal communities
  • New media and policy, access
  • Post 9/11 information environment
  • Privacy
  • Social impacts of technology
  • use of information and its technologies

Office: 416-978-4664
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Olivier St-Cyr

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Active Learning (AL) Pedagogy
  • Active Learning Classroom (ALC) Design
  • Classroom Design
  • Cognitive Work Analysis
  • Ecological Interface Design
  • HCI/UX Education
  • Higher Level Education / Pedagogy
  • Human factors engineering
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Learning, knowledge acquisition, expertise, and mental models
  • Studio Education
  • Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) Classrooms Design & Evaluation
  • User Experience Design
  • User Interfaces for Complex Systems

Office: 416-978-8876
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: olivier.st.cyr@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Patrick Keilty

Associate Professor

Patrick Keilty

Areas of Expertise

  • Materiality of sexual media
  • Politics of digital infrastructures in the sex industries

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: p.keilty@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Periklis Andritsos

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Big Data analytics
  • Cluster analysis
  • Data management
  • Data mining

Office: 416-978-1773
Languages: Greek, Italian
Website
Email: periklis.andritsos@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Priyank Chandra

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Information & Communication Technologies & Development (ICTD)

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: priyank.chandra@utoronto.ca

Sara Grimes

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children and digital culture
  • Children and media, literature
  • Children and social media
  • Children as content producers/creators
  • Children's literature and controversy
  • Children's play
  • Children's privacy
  • Children's rights online
  • Digital games/videogames
  • Digital play
  • Digital/video game regulation and controversies

Office: N/A
Website
Email: sara.grimes@utoronto.ca
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Seamus Ross

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural heritage informatics and knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Digital Preservation/Curation digital humanities
  • Digital repositories, emulation, digital archaeology,
  • Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), digitization,
  • Semantic extraction and genre classification

Office: 416 978 5763
Website
Email: seamus.ross@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shion Guha

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Human computer interaction
  • Machine learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Public policy
  • Public sector and government management
  • Social impacts of artificial intelligence

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,Bengali,Hindi,Kannada
Website
Email: shion.guha@utoronto.ca