RECENT
01/2025: Featured on “Behind the Screens” IT@ND podcast discussing the integration of AI at Notre Dame
01/2025: Featured on UWaterloo Arts News “From PhD to Professor” Words in Place Interview
12/2024: New co-authored paper “The Future of Work in the Age of Automation: Proceedings of a Workshop on Norbert Wiener’s 21st Century Legacy.” IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10798994
10/2024: Invited workshop “Re-imagining the History of Women in Computing” at Notre Dame Association for Women in Science.
08/2024: Started new academic appointment as Assistant Teaching Professor of Technology and Digital Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies minor at the University of Notre Dame.
Research
PUBLICATIONS
Heather A. Love, Greg Adamson, Mallory James, Jason Lajoie, Iven Mareels, Zach Pearl, Daniel S Schiff, Ketra Schmitt, Thirumala Arohi, John Buchanan, Stéphanie Camaréna, Marten Kaevats, Jeremy Reynolds, Pedro H Albuquerque, John C Havens, Davis Chacón-Hurtado, Sucheta Lahiri, Ayse Ocal, Alexi Orchard, Michael Rigby, Rebecca Sherlock, Victor Sundararaj, Qin Zhu. (2024) “The Future of Work in the Age of Automation: Proceedings of a Workshop on Norbert Wiener’s 21st Century Legacy.” IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10798994
Alexi Orchard (2024) “Opportunities and Obstacles for an Embedded STS Program in Engineering.” Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PCEEA/article/view/18545
Alexi Orchard. (2024) “The Innovation Problem Finder Dartboard.” Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PCEEA/article/view/18553
Alexi Orchard & Marcel O’Gorman (2024). “Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods.” Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2318823. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2318823
David Radke & Alexi Orchard (2023). “Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics.” Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1781–1785. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~eg/AAMAS2023/pdfs/p1781.pdf
Alexi Orchard & David Radke (2023). “An Analysis of Engineering Students’ Responses to an AI Ethics Scenario.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26880
Michael Guerzhoy, Marion Neumann, Pat Virtue, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Yaman K Singla, Alexi Orchard, Rajiv Ratn Shah (2023). “EAAI-23 Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program.” AI Matters, 9(2), 24–29.
Alexi Orchard, Marcel O’Gorman, Chelsea La Vecchia, & Jason Lajoie (2022). “Augmented Reality Smart Glasses in Focus: A User Group Report.” Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503565
Conor Truax, Alexi Orchard, & Heather A. Love (2021). “The influence of curriculum and internship culture on developing ethical technologists: A case study of the University of Waterloo.” Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629124
Heather Love, Jason Lajoie, Alexi Orchard, Jin Sol Kim, Kem Laurin Lubin, Jennifer Boger, & Pallavi Sodhi (2021) “Uniting Sustainability and Ethics in Engineering Curriculum: A Literature Review of Shared Challenges and Opportunities,” 2021 CEEA ACEG 2021 Conf. Proc., Abstract only.
Jason Lajoie, Alexi Orchard, & Heather A. Love (2020). “Ethical Tech Pedagogy for Public Good: A Review of Educational Initiatives and Approaches.” 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462181
BLOGS + OTHER WRITING
“Engineering students envision equity and access in Waterloo Park” LA Tech4Good May 2023
Selected Workshops + Presentations
Love in the Digital Age: The sOcial Impacts of Dating Apps | February 2025
Contributed lecture. “A Match Made in the Cloud” Valentine’s Day event, Technology and Digital Studies Program, University of Notre Dame, USA.
REIMAGINING the history of women in computing | October 2024
Invited workshop. Association for Women in Science, University of Notre Dame, USA.
AI in the wild | September 2024
Invited lecture with John Behrens. “Crash Course” Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, USA.
CRITICAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION | NOVEMBER 2023
Invited workshop with Rebecca Sherlock. Conference for Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
CRITICAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION | MAY 2023
Accepted workshop with Heather A. Love and Rebecca Sherlock. IEEE ETHICS 2023, Purdue University, USA. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10155030
“MENDING ENGINEERING: A WORKSHOP TO START RADICALLY REPAIRING ENGINEERING’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD” | JUNE 2022
Accepted workshop with Matt Borland, Kate Mercer, Jenny Howcroft, Shannon Veitch, and Matt Robichaud. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference 2022, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Google Scholar | LinkedIn | CV
Critical Design for Responsible Innovation workshop at the Conference on Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo 2023
Teaching
University of Notre Dame
Assistant Teaching Professor
“Social Issues in AI Ethics” CDT 30802
“Generative AI in the Wild” CDT 30750
“Elements of Computing 1” CDT 30010
University of Waterloo
Sessional Instructor
“Rhetorical Theory and Criticism” ENGL 292 | Spring 2024
“Communication in the Engineering Profession” ENGL 192 | Fall 2023
“Communication in the Engineering Profession” ARTS 190 | Fall 2022
