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I am a Human-Computer Interaction scholar, conducting sociotechnical research at the intersection of user experience design, digital inclusion, aging, natural language processing, and ethics. I take a primarily ethnomethodology approach to study how voice- and language-enabled interactive technology and media interfaces should be designed in a safe, effective, inclusive, and ethical manner, in order to empower digitally underrepresented groups such as older adults.

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Natural User Interfaces
• Mobile Computing
• Ethics and Assistive Technologies

• 2009, Doctorate Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2004, Master of Science Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2000, Master of Applied Science Computer and Software Engineering, Politehnica University TimiÈ™oara, Romania
• 1999, Dipl.-Ing. (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) Computer Engineering, Politehnica University TimiÈ™oara, Romania

• STV 302 - Information Technology and Society
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• SYDE 101 - Communications in Systems Design Engineering-Written and Oral
  • Taught in 2022
• SYDE 600 - Systems Theory, Models, Research & Design
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• SYDE 660 - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1
  • Taught in 2025
• SYDE 660A - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - AI and Machine
  • Taught in 2025
• SYDE 660B - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Biomedical Systems
  • Taught in 2025
• SYDE 660C - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Human Factors
  • Taught in 2025
• SYDE 660D - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Mechatronic & Physical Systems
  • Taught in 2025
• SYDE 660E - Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Vision, Image & Signal
  • Taught in 2025

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• Faculty researchers awarded $900K from government