Edith Law is an Associate Professor at the
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. She leads the Augmented Intelligence Lab, co-directs the
Human Computer Interaction Lab, and is currently the Executive Director of the
Future of Work Institute, funded by the Global Futures Fund. She is also the inaugural
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),
CFI-JELF,
Graham Seed Fund,
UWaterloo-Inria Associate Team Grant, and
NSERC-ANR Grant on Artificial Intelligence. 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).