Courses Taught

OCAD University–Faculty of Design (2011-present)

  • Associate Member of Graduate Faculty, OCAD University (2012-present)
  • Adjunct Professor in Research and Graduate Studies (2013–present)
  • Sessional instructor, Faculty of Design, (MDes program in Inclusive Design (MDID)) (2013–present)
  • Contributing Faculty to MDID program since inception (2011–2013)

Courses taught (2013 – Present)

  • Winter 2016 (18 students) (current)
    • INCD 6013– Lab 4: Research Colloquium
  • Fall 2015 (18 students)
    • INCD 6006–The Difference
  • Winter 2015 (17 students)
    • INCD 6C02–Experiential Research Lab (co-taught)
  • Fall 2014 (17 students)
    • INCD 6B06–The Difference
    • INCD 6C02–Experiential Research Lab (co-taught)
  • Winter 2014
    • INCD 6C02–Experiential Research Lab (co-taught)
  • Fall 2013 (16 students)
    • INCD 6B06–The Difference
    • INCD 6C02–Experiential Research Lab (co-taught)

University of Toronto–Faculty of Information (iSchool) (2006–2009)

  • Guest lecturer/workshop coordinator/Teaching Assistant
    • Two workshops on ‘Inclusive Design’ under the Inforum Workshop Series for graduate students of the iSchool (January 2009)
    • Guest session on ‘Web Credibility’ in ‘FIS 2164H–Authority and Credibility in Online Communities’ (January 2009)
    • Session on ‘Research Ethics Review at the U of T’ to Ph.D. students in ‘FIS3005Y–Advanced Seminar in Research Methodologies’ (April 2008)
    • Two workshops on ‘Accessible Web Design’ under the Inforum Workshop Series for graduate students of the iSchool (October 2007)
    • Teaching Assistant for two sections (83 students) of the MLIS course ‘FIS 1210H–Information and its Social Contexts’ (Fall 2007)
    • Four workshops on ‘Accessible Web Design’ under the Inforum Workshop Series for graduate students of the iSchool (October 2006 & January 2007)

Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), India (2003 – 2004)

  • Teaching faculty
    • Designed and developed curriculum for a two-semester flagship course on Banking Technology Management in a one-year Post Graduate Program in Banking Technology Management.
    • Taught the above course to the first cohort of 30 students (engineers and MBAs.)

Reserve Bank Staff College (RBSC), India (1998 – 2003)

  • Teaching Faculty – RBSC is the Corporate Training College of the Reserve Bank of India, imparting training to its officers and executives in banking, management and technology. As a teaching faculty, I conducted short-duration training programmes (2 to 3 weeks each) relating to use of Information Technology in banking in the following areas:
    • Operating Systems (UNIX, IBM, Novell Netware, Windows NT/2000)
    • Programming languages (COBOL, ‘C’, Visual Basic)
    • Information Systems Design, RDBMS (Oracle 9i ) and Front end tools (Developer 2000)
    • Information Security, Networking and Internet Security