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Huge congratulations to Ainaz for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis yesterday! (With very minor revisions)

Ainaz’s reserch asked the question of whether we should trust current machine learning based tools for bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), exploring this interdisciplinary space between computer science and forensic science.

Zahra (Ronika) had this to say about the presentation:

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting our research, “Norm-Governed Human–AI Co-Creation in Marketing: An Artificial Collective Intentionality Framework,” at the 2026 American Marketing Association Summer Academic Conference.

Earlier this month, researchers from Ontario Tech University’s Trustworthy AI Lab travelled to Scotland to participate in the Trusting Intelligent Machines (TIM) workshop, hosted at the University of Stirling.

The event brought together an international community of researchers exploring trust in AI systems on one of the world’s most beautiful university campuses. Together, we shared ideas across disciplines and built relationships that will shape future research.

Huge congratulations to Tess on passing her Doctoral Candidacy exam, yesterday!

Tess’s research on critical AI literacy is exploring how to support pre-service teachers in articulating and enacting their own professional positions toward AI use, empowering teachers to articulate professional values, guide ethical and pedagogical decision-making, and critically examine their understanding of AI in classroom practice.

This week, John and Ainaz headed to the STEM for Everyone event.

There, John joined a panel on Artificial Intelligence, describing what AI means to him and how he uses it in their lives and work. The panelists also answered students’ questions, ranging technical topics like the difference between AI and generative AI, how to be more effective users of LLMs, and “how not to get caught using LLMs" 😉

This week the Trustworthy AI Lab vacate the lab for the day for an end of semester retreat!

We do these retreats every so often to take stock of where we are and to collectively shape where we want to be. The retreat is also an opportunity for us to welcome new folk, and for us to share and celebrate!

This week, Zahra gave an excellent talk as part of our series of public events at Ajax Public Library.

The workshop delivered tips and tricks informed by the current literature and best practices, in how to best structure one’s prompts when utilizing Large Language Models!