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* Aug '24: Keynote at PDC'24

* June '24: Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor!

* May '24: Named the "Future Leader" by the Computing Research Association (CRA)!!

* Apr '24: CHI Best Paper Award!!

* Apr '24: CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!!

* Apr '24: Keynote at 'Cultures of Datafication In and Across South Asia' workshop at UPenn

* Mar '24: Paper accepted at FaccT '24! Topic: Faith-based ethics in content moderation

* Mar '24: Paper accepted at CSCW '24! Topic: marginalization of religious minorities 

* Mar '24: Co-organizing Workshop on Reliable Evaluation of LLMs (REAL-Info) at ICWSM '24

* Jan '24: Co-organized the Fairness-ChatGPT workshop at the Data Sciences Institute, UofT

* Jan '24: Microsoft AI & Society Fellowship!

* Jan '24: Seven papers accepted at CHI '24!

* Oct '23: Google Research Award for Inclusion! [news]

* July '23: Connaught Scholarship!

* July '23: Data Sciences Institute Catalyst Grant [news]

* July '23: Data Sciences Institute Emergent Data Sciences Program Grant

* July '23: Institute of Pandemics Catalyst Grant 

* July '23: Two papers accepted to COMPASS' 23 

* Jun '23: Panel Discussion at "Absolutely Interdisciplinary" conference

* Mar '23: Became a Father of a beautiful son!! 

* Mar '22: Talk at UofT Moral Code hackathon

* Feb '22: Talk at UofT Ethical Principles in AI Team [Link]

* Feb '22: Interview with Canada School of Public Service

* Jan '22: Talk at SRI! [Link] 

* Jan '22: Talk at CHIWORK! [Link] 

* Nov '21: Facebook Research Award on Digital Privacy!

* Oct '21: Two new papers accepted to CSCW '22!

* Sept '21: Appointed as a Faculty Fellow at SRI!

* July '21: Appointed as a Senior Fellow at Massey College!

* May '21: Four papers accepted to ACM COMPASS! 

* May '21: Interview on Global Misinformation at Guelph University Social Justice Alliance [Link] 

* Mar '21: CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for "Unmochon" [paper]

* Mar '21: Interaction article of designing with internally displaced people published [Link]

* Feb -Mar '21: Talk "Design for Voice" 

at University of Washington (DUB Seminar)

at University of Maryland at Baltimore (Invited Speaker Series)

at Stanford Computer Science (HCI Seminar)

* Jan '21: Talk "Whose Ethics? Whose Intelligence?" at the Centre of Ethics of UofT

* Dec '20: Will be serving as the HCI Track Chair for COMPASS2021

* Dec '20: Two Papers accepted to CSCW 2021

* Dec '20: Three Papers accepted to CHI 2021

* Oct '20: Awarded Google exploreCSR grant for supporting students from marginalized communities

* Oct '20: Talk at Google on "The Future of Work in the Global South"

* Sep '20: Interaction blog on COVID-19 and local faith published [Link]

* Aug '20: Three papers accepted to CSCW2020!

* July '20: Become a Faculty affiliate at Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

* July '20: The co-edited journal issue of IJIDI on forced migration is out now!

* July '20: We are organizing a virtual mini-CHI with HCI4D papers of CHI2020

* May '20: We got 1 paper and 1 note accepted to ACM COMPASS 2020!

* Apr '20: Our proposal on reducing stigma around COVID-19 got funded by CIHR!

* Apr '20: Our proposal on protecting the heritage of immigrants got funded by SSHRC NFRF!

* Mar '20: Both of our papers got Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards in CHI 2020!

* Dec '19: CHI Workshop proposal on IslamiCHI is accepted. Details here.

* Nov '19: Diversity and Inclusion Award, ACM CSCW 2019

* Sept'19: Awarded IIE Centennial Fellowship (1 of 4 awardees across the globe)

* Sept'19: SSHRC PEG Grant (Ranked 1st among all proposals)

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