Nada Al Masri

Nada Al Masri is an Associate Professor in the Teaching Stream at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Prior to that, she held several professorial positions in Computer Science and Information Systems in various higher education institutes, including the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA de Lyon), France; Claude-Bernard University (Lyon 1), France; the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada; and other American-based higher education institutes in the Middle East region. Throughout her career, she has assumed several administrative roles, including Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chair of the AACSB Steering Committee, and Chair of the University Strategic Planning Committee.

Nada Al Masri earned her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from The National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France, in 2000 and 2005, respectively, and her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the UAE University, UAE, in 1998.

Her research interests include Software Engineering, IT Ethics, and Education in Emergencies.

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.