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March 25, 2021 - I co-organized workshop Reimagining the Futures of Immigrant Settlement Service: Lessons Learned from Digital Service at the 23rd Metropolis 2021 Conference!
January 22, 2021 - Our open panel Digital Data Collection and Migration Studies: Fostering Good Relations Across Time and Space was accepted at 4S Conference!
December, 2020 - Our workshop Migration and Mobility in HCI: Rethinking Boundaries, Methods, and Impact was accepted at CHI 2021!
November 18, 2020 - I was an invited speaker at Nature and Climate Talks at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University.
November 17, 2020 - I guest-lectured the ICTs for Social Good for ENV261 (Is Internet Green?) at School of Environment at the University of Toronto. This was my 3rd time delivering this lecture!
October 29, 2020 - I co-organized the panel From way across the sea: Information overload and international students during the COVID‐19 pandemic at the ASIST 2020 Conference.
October 16, 2020 - I received the SSSP Scholarship Award and became a member of Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) IE Division.
October 2, 2020 - I co-organize Critical Computing Seminars at the Third Space Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
June 10, 2020 - Our project, Sounds of Solidarity, has been awarded the University of Toronto COVID-19 Student Engagement Award. Thank you UofT for the generous support!
August, 2020 - I joined UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab as the Information and Communication Technologies Fellow.
July 27, 2020 - I presented my work Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance: Ethical Frameworks for Rights Based Data Activities at the Ethical Innovation for Artificial Intelligence Conference (ei4ai).
July 1-2, 2020 - I co-organized HCI4D@ThirdSpace, a virtual-CHI event to bring together papers on international development and critical computing from CHI 2020.
June 10, 2020 - I became a member of Canadian Information Science Association/L’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information.
April, 2020 - I joined Techfugees, an impact-driven global organisation empowering displaced people with technology.
2019-2010 - I was elected as a SIG Social Media board member at Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).