Edith Law is an Associate Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo, leads the Augmented Intelligence Lab and co-directs the Human Computer Interaction Lab. She is currently the Executive Director of the Future of Work Institute, funded by the Global Futures Fund, and the Google Research Chair in the Future of Work and Learning, leading the creation of the Futures Lab and research on AI-facilitated learning.
Previously, She was a CRCS postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Computer Science from McGill University and a B.Sc in Computer Science from University of British Columbia. She is broadly interested in social computing technology that coordinates small groups to large crowds, new models of interactions with machine intelligence, and how technology can be designed to foster and celebrate certain human values. The research conducted by Law and her students have received several best paper awards and honorable mentions at the CHI and CSCW conference. Law's work is funded by NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) as well as the CFI-JELF program. A full list of publications is available in the CV and Google Scholar.
Edith is currently the Co-Chair of Women in Computer Science (WICS) and runs the Early Undergraduate Research Program (EREP/UR2PhD). She is serving as the General Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) in 2025 and the Program Co-Chair for International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) in 2026.
Previously, She was a CRCS postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Computer Science from McGill University and a B.Sc in Computer Science from University of British Columbia. She is broadly interested in social computing technology that coordinates small groups to large crowds, new models of interactions with machine intelligence, and how technology can be designed to foster and celebrate certain human values. The research conducted by Law and her students have received several best paper awards and honorable mentions at the CHI and CSCW conference. Law's work is funded by NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) as well as the CFI-JELF program. A full list of publications is available in the CV and Google Scholar.
Edith is currently the Co-Chair of Women in Computer Science (WICS) and runs the Early Undergraduate Research Program (EREP/UR2PhD). She is serving as the General Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) in 2025 and the Program Co-Chair for International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) in 2026.