Welcome! I'm an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University in London, Ontario. From 2024 to 2026, I’m also a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar with the Future Flourishing Program.
I research the ethical, historical, and social impacts of computational technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I’m particularly animated by how these technologies mediate social and emotional expression, make inferences about people, and are reshaping, for better and worse, our relationships to collective action, our selves, and each other.
My current book project, Reordering Emotion: Histories of Computing and Human Feelings from Cybernetics to Artificial Intelligence, is a history of affective computing and the digital quantification of human emotion from cybernetics in the 1940s to today’s social media platforms and AI technologies.
Before joining FIMS, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Group at Microsoft Research Montreal; a Fellow and an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College. My PhD is from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and my BA & MA are from the University of Toronto.