Ishtiaque Ahmed

 

Advising:

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Postdocs:

• Dr. Rachel Levine (PhD from UofT), (December 2022 - )

  • Topic: Ethics in Robotics

• Dr. Priyank Chanrda (PhD from U of Michigan), (July 2019 - December 2020)

  • Topic: Designing for informal practices in marginalized communities

  • Placement: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (2021)

• Dr. Aparna Moitra (PhD from U of Delhi), (January 2019 - December 2020)

  • Topic: Designing for gender justice in the global south

  • Placement: Research Scientist and Program Manager, Ulula, Canada

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PhD Students:

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat (2017 - )

  • Topic: Postsecular Computing​

• Maryam Mokhberi (2019 - ) 

  • Topic: Design for Humanitarian Support

• Yasaman Rohanifar (2020​ - )

  • Topic: Ethics in Ubicomp​

• Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal (2022 - )​

  • Topic: Ethics in AI​

• Zarif Masud (2023 - )​

  • Topic: Destigmatizing data​

• Dina Sabie​ (2018 - 2023)

  • Topic: Inclusive design with refugees and immigrants

  • Next: Asst. Prof, Humber College

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Masters Students:

• Amir Masud Bidaki Zare (Winter 2022 - Winter 2023)

• Eva Smuc (Visiting Student, Summer 2022)

• Divas Kapur (2021-2022, MScAC)

• Yasaman Rohanifar (2018-2020, Next: PhD Student, Univ of Toronto)

• Hazem Ibrahim (2018-2020, Next: Lecturer, New York University, Abu Dhabi)

• Abdul Kawsar Tushar (2018-2020, Next: Software Engineer, TelMax)

• Jamie Beverley (2018-2019, MScAC, Next: Software Engineer, LKS-CHART)

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Undergraduate Students:

• Joanna Roy (Fall 2023 - present)

• Hala Sheta (Summer 2022 - Fall 2023)

• Emily Traynor (Fall 2022 - Winter 2023)

• Esmat Sahak (Fall 2022 - Winter 2023)

• Amal Nabeel Koodoruth (Summer 2022, Data Science Institute Fellow)

• Peiwen Luo (Summer 2022)

• Haiyue (Lilly) Wang (Summer 2022 - Fall 2022)

• Akiki Liang (Winter 2022 - Winter 2023)

• Soaad Hossain (Summer 2019 - Summer 2022)

• Diana Storchak (Summer 2022)

• Kailin Hong (2021-2022, Next: Dat Scientist, JP Morgan)

• Claire Zhang (Summer 2022)

• Natalie Ashgriz (Fall 2021 - Summer 2022)

• Kailin Hong (Fall 2021 - Summer 2022)

• Pranjal Bajaria (Summer 2021 - December 2021)

• Prianka Roy (Fall 2018 - Summer 2022)

• Feining Wang (Fall 2021)

• Anvi Jain (Summer 2021)

• Vannie Koplakrishnan (Summer 2020 - Spring 2021)

• Lun Yu Li (2019 - 2021) (NSERC USRA). Next: Graduate Student, Stanford University

• Yanna Ding (2020 - 2021) (NSERC USRA, MITACS RA). Next: PhD Student, RPI

• Faiyaz Huq (Fall 2017 - Fall 2020) (NSERC USRA)

• Daniel Visca (Fall 2020)

• Christina Chung (2018-2019)

• Samin Khan (2018-2019): (NSERC USRA). Next: CTO and Co-Founder of Animo

• Zifei Han (2018-2018). Next: Co-Founder of Uforse Education Group Inc.

• Rasagya Monga (Spring 2018 - Summer 2018) (NSERC USRA)

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Committee Member:

• Ananya Bhattacharjee, UofT, PhD Committee (2021-)

• Aarjav Chauhan, UofT, PhD Committee (2023 - )

• Shreyasha Paudel, UofT, PhD Committee (2023 - )

• Aditi Bhatia, UofT, PhD Committee (2021-)

• Cansu Ekmekcioglu Dedeoglu, UofT, PhD Committee (2020-)

• Dipto Das, Information Science, Colorado Boulder, PhD Committee (2017-)

• Sharifa Sultana, Cornell University (2016-23), PhD Committee. Next: Asst. Prof. UIUC CS

• Samia Ibtasam, Univ of Washington (2018-22), PhD Committee. Next: UX Researcher, Axon.

• Mishall Ahmed, Political Science, York University (2021-), PhD Committee.

• Manika Saha, Monash University, Australia (2020-22), PhD Committee. Next: Postdoc. Monash

• Levon Amatuni (2018 - 2019), UofT, Masters: Committee

• Simon Cook (2018-2019), UofT, Masters Committee

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Mentoring:

• Upol Ehsan, Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Tech (2016-)

• Pratyasha Saha, University of Dhaka (2016-)

• Md Rayhan Rashed, BUET (2019-)

• Ahana Biswas, IIT Kanpur (2021 - 2022)

• Swapnil Nandy, Jadavpur University (2019-2021)

• Nicole Yan, University of Waterloo (Summer 2021)

• Ashratuz Zavin Asha, University of Calgary (Summer 2021)

• Shivesh Jadon, University of Calgary (Summer 2021)

• Syeda Nahida Akter, BUET (2020-2021) (Next: Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University)

• Hasan M Prottoy, BUET (2016-2021) (Next: PhD Student, Univ of Maryland at Baltimore)

• Safir Abdullah, BUET (2016-2021) (Next: Commonwealth Fellow, University of Warwick, UK)

• Ananya Bhattacharjee (2019-2020) (Next: PhD Student, Computer Science, UofT)

• Mitrasree Deb, BUET (2018-2020) (next: IT Consultant, Fujitsu Research Institute, Japan)

• Mehrab Bin Morshed, BUET (2013-2015) (Next: PhD Student, Georgia Tech)

• Maruf Zaber (2013-2015), BUET (Next: PhD Student, Univ of California, Irvine)

• Md. M. Rahman, BUET (2009-2012)(Next: PhD Student, UT Austin)

• Sabirat Rubya (2009-2011), BUET (Next: PhD Student, Univ. of Minnesota)

• Rifat Mansur, BUET (2012-2014) (Next: PhD Student, Virginia Tech)

• Faysal Hossain, BUET (2015-2017) (Next: PhD Student, University of Virginia)

• Md. Sajidur Rahman, BUET (2019-2011) (Next: PhD Student, University of Florida)

• Md. Romael Hoque, BUET (2017-2019) (Next: PhD Student, Marquette University)

• Samiha Samrose, BUET (2009-2011) (Next: PhD Student, University of Rochester)

• Rawshan Fatima, Univ of Dhaka (2015-2018) (Next: PhD Student, Rutgers University)

• Scott A. Cambo, Cornell University (2012) (Next: PhD Student, Northwestern University)

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Research Interns:

• Srihari H. Muralidhar, Microsoft Research

• Anupama Dhareshwar, Microsoft Research