Sharon Ferguson (She/Her)

Dr. Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Management Sciences Department, Faculty of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/. She is also associated with the Future of Work Institute and the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, studying how teams collaborate using the digital trace data created from online platforms, in order to design more effective technology utilizing human-AI collaboration. Her research draws on theories from Management, Engineering Design and Psychology, and uses methods from Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Social Science. She has also led projects investigating Human-AI collaborative decision-making and student persistence in Machine Learning careers. Her work has been published in HCI venues such as CHI and CSCW, and Engineering Design venues such as Design Science. She completed her PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, where she received the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship and fellowships in Human-AI Interaction, Ethics of AI, and Technology and Society. During her PhD, she also completed an internship in the Research and Analytics department at Slack, and served as the President of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers. She completed her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.

• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Future of Work

• Human-AI Collaboration

• Virtual Collaboration

• Engineering Design

• Diversity and Inclusion

• Collaboration Support

• 2024, PhD, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

• 2020, BASc, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

• 2023 Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Teaching Assistant Award, University of Toronto

• 2023 "Reviewer's Favourite" Award, International Conference on Engineering Design

• MSE 100 - Management Engineering Concepts
  • Taught in 2025
• MSE 543 - Analytics and User Experience
  • Taught in 2025

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