Priyank Chandra

Priyank Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and the Director of the STREET Lab, housed at KMDI, University of Toronto. He holds a PhD in Information from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Chandra's research is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), development studies, and sociology. His research focuses on the resistance practices of marginalised communities and how they interact with technologies - specifically, how they reconfigure technologies to meet their unique needs and how our understanding of these interactions can inform the design of more ethical and inclusive technologies.