News
Awards, talks, papers, and press coverage from the ThirdSpace group, year by year.
2026
- Aug '26Ishtiaque gave a lecture on Small LLM at MBZUAI
- Aug '26Our paper on AI for Nonprofits has been accepted for GROUP 2027
- Jul '26Lecture on "AI for Peace" at Korea University, Seoul
- Jul '26Lecture on "Global Flow of Misinformation" at SYNC, KSA
- Jul '26Paper accepted in ICWSM 2027
- Jul '26Paper accepted in USENIX Security Symposium 2026
- Jul '26Two Papers accepted in AAAI AIES 2026
- Jul '26Paper accepted in USENIX Security 2026
- Jul '26Poster accepted in ACM SIGCOMM 2026
- Jun '26Ishtiaque received a 1.8 million CAD grant award from the Wellcome Foundation
- Jun '26Article on Prediction Market published in iai (The Institute of Art and Ideas) News
- May '26Our paper received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ACM DISHonorable Mention
- Apr '26Ishtiaque lectured at the School of Cities on Data Sovereignty
- Apr '26NPR interviewed Ishtiaque for their article on AI Sycophancy
- Apr '26Ishtiaque lectured at the Muck School at the event, "Seeking Alignment" on AI and Religion
- Apr '26Our paper for LLM-based hate speech detection has been accepted for ACL 2026
- Apr '26Three papers accepted at COMPASS 2026
- Mar '26Two papers received Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards in CHI 2026Honorable Mention
- Mar '26Ishtiaque joined as a member of the MIT Global Humanities Initiative
- Feb '26Six Full papers and two posters accepted in CHI 2026
- Feb '26Paper on LLM and behaviour change study accepted in Nature Human Behaviour
- Feb '26Paper on human experience of Ontario hospitals is published in PLOS Digital Health
- Feb '26Paper on media bias in journalistic reporting is accepted in WebSci '26
- Feb '26Paper on human experience of navigating Ontario health care is published in Plos One
- Feb '26Paper on reasoning behind hate speech accepted in EACL Findings
- Jan '26Ishtiaque was interviewed about Responsible AI on the Jamuna Television, Bangladesh
- Jan '26Ishtiaque was interviewed about Responsible AI on the Bangla Vision Television, Bangladesh
- Jan '26Ishtiaque became the National AI Advisor for UNDP Bangladesh
- Jan '26Ishtiaque lectured on AI and the Future of Business at IBA, Bangladesh
- Jan '26Ishtiaque co-organized Responsible AI Seminar at IIT, DU
- Jan '26Ishtiaque co-organized Responsible AI Seminar at Department of Management, NSU
2025
- Dec '25Ishtiaque attended and lectured at the AI for Global South summit at MBZUAI, UAE
- Nov '25Panel on AI & the future of Biology at UofT
- Nov '25New Lecture on AI Value Alignment at the Centre for Ethics
- Nov '25Ishtiaque attended WELLCOME Foundation AI & Mental Health workshop in London. UK
- Oct '25ASSETS Workshop on Accessibility research for ICTD
- Oct '25CIFAR Canada-Taiwan joint AI Summit
- Sep '25Ishtiaque started as the Associate Director of KMDI
- Apr '25NSERC DISCOVERY Award
- Apr '25Invited Talk at the Centre for Digital Transformation Health, University of Melbourne (virtual)
- Mar '25Ishtiaque won the School of Cities "Data and Inequality" Challenge 2025
- Mar '25Ishtiaque attended CIFAR Forum for Radical Interdisciplinarity in Geneva
- Mar '25Ishtiaque was a panelist at the Vohra Miller Lecture Series, UofT.
- Mar '25Ishtiaque was a panelist at the Forum for Anti-Caste Activism, UTSC
- Mar '25Invited Talk at MBZUAI Machine Learning Department in Abu Dhabi.
- Mar '25Invited Talk at the AI Centres of Doctoral Training (CDT), Northumbria University (virtual)
- Jan '25Invited Talk at NYUAD Computer Science Department.
2024
- Nov '24Google exploreCSR Award
- Aug '24Keynote at PDC'24
- Jun '24Ishtiaque was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor
- May '24Ishtiaque was named the "Future Leader" by the Computing Research Association (CRA)
- Apr '24CHI Best Paper AwardBest Paper
- Apr '24CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention AwardHonorable Mention
- Apr '24Keynote at 'Cultures of Datafication In and Across South Asia' workshop at UPenn
- Mar '24Paper accepted at FaccT '24! Topic: Faith-based ethics in content moderation
- Mar '24Paper accepted at CSCW '24! Topic: marginalization of religious minorities
- Mar '24Ishtiaque is co-organizing Workshop on Reliable Evaluation of LLMs (REAL-Info) at ICWSM '24
- Jan '24Ishtiaque co-organized the Fairness-ChatGPT workshop at the Data Sciences Institute, UofT
- Jan '24Microsoft AI & Society Fellowship
- Jan '24Seven papers accepted at CHI '24
2023
- Oct '23Google Research Award for Inclusion
- Jul '23Connaught Scholarship
- Jul '23Data Sciences Institute Catalyst Grant
- Jul '23Data Sciences Institute Emergent Data Sciences Program Grant
- Jul '23Institute of Pandemics Catalyst Grant
- Jul '23Two papers accepted to COMPASS' 23
- Jun '23Panel Discussion at "Absolutely Interdisciplinary" conference
2022
- Mar '22Talk at UofT Moral Code hackathon
- Feb '22Talk at UofT Ethical Principles in AI Team
- Feb '22Interview with Canada School of Public Service
- Jan '22Talk at SRI
- Jan '22Talk at CHIWORK
2021
- Nov '21Facebook Research Award on Digital Privacy
- Oct '21Two new papers accepted to CSCW '22
- Sep '21Ishtiaque was appointed as a Faculty Fellow at SRI
- Jul '21Ishtiaque was appointed as a Senior Fellow at Massey College
- May '21Four papers accepted to ACM COMPASS
- May '21Interview on Global Misinformation at Guelph University Social Justice Alliance
- Mar '21Interaction article, "Designing with Internally Displaced Slum Dwellers in Bangladesh"
- Mar '21CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for "Unmochon"Honorable Mention
- Feb '21Talk "Design for Voice"
- Jan '21Talk "Whose Ethics? Whose Intelligence?" at the Centre of Ethics of UofT
2020
- Dec '20Ishtiaque will be serving as the HCI Track Chair for COMPASS2021
- Dec '20Two Papers accepted to CSCW 2021
- Dec '20Three Papers accepted to CHI 2021
- Oct '20Ishtiaque was awarded Google exploreCSR grant for supporting students from marginalized communities
- Oct '20Talk at Google on "The Future of Work in the Global South"
- Sep '20(IIE Centennial Blog): Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19
- Sep '20Blog post (ACM Interactions): "Fighting Coronavirus with Faith"
- Aug '20Three papers accepted to CSCW2020
- Jul '20Ishtiaque became a Faculty affiliate at Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
- Jul '20The co-edited journal issue of IJIDI on forced migration is out now
- Jul '20We are organizing a virtual mini-CHI with HCI4D papers of CHI2020
- May '20Op-ed (Daily Star): "COVID-19 and the economization of life in Bangladesh"
- May '20We got 1 paper and 1 note accepted to ACM COMPASS 2020
- Apr '20Op-ed (Prothom Alo): "করোনা মোকাবিলা: ডেটানির্ভর প্রযুক্তি ও ব্যক্তিগত তথ্য নিরাপত্তা"
- Apr '20Talk Show Interview on Ekattor TV on COVID19.
- Apr '20Our proposal on reducing stigma around COVID-19 got funded by CIHR
- Apr '20Our proposal on protecting the heritage of immigrants got funded by SSHRC NFRF
- Mar '20Both of our papers got Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards in CHI 2020Honorable Mention
2019
- Dec '19CHI Workshop proposal on IslamiCHI is accepted
- Nov '19Diversity and Inclusion Award, ACM CSCW 2019
- Sep '19Ishtiaque was awarded IIE Centennial Fellowship (1 of 4 awardees across the globe)
- Sep '19SSHRC PEG Grant (Ranked 1st among all proposals)