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Oct 12, 2025 Sharon will be at CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway supporting the presentation of Marjan’s work: Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams’ Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
Jul 15, 2025 Sharon received a Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Seed Grant from the University of Waterloo to continue investigating student persistence in Artificial Intelligence.
May 26, 2025 In collaboration with Dr. Anastasia Kuzminykh and Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Sharon led a workshop entitled ``The Role of AI-Empowered Machine Subjectivity in HCI Tasks’’ at the 2025 Graphics Interface Conference in Kelowna, BC.
Apr 26, 2025 Our paper, “Matter of Perspective(s): Contrasting Human and LLM Argumentation in Subjective Decision-Making on Subtle Sexism” was published at CHI 2025, and presented in Yokohama, Japan by Paula Akemi Aoyagui.
Jan 01, 2025 Sharon officially started as an Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo!
Dec 02, 2024 Sharon successfully defended her PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (title: The Future of Engineering Work: Exploring Innovation Influences on Enterprise Communication Platforms) at the University of Toronto.
Oct 01, 2024 Sharon started a visiting studentship in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dr. David Wallace and Dr. James Magarian.
Jun 14, 2024 In collaboration with Dr. Alison Olechowski and Dr. Sirisha Rambhatla, Sharon was awarded the Microsoft AI & The New Future of Work Grant for a project titled “A Novel AI-Powered System for Building Shared Understanding in Teams”
Nov 07, 2015 A long announcement with details