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ICCIT Professor Leon Lu working on a haptic vest at a table. A woman is sitting across the table from him.

Signals to the Summit: UTM Prof Creates Sensory Vest for Deafblind Everest Climber

Featuring Leon Lu

Published May 5, 2026 by the UTM News Room

When Karolina Pakėnaitė attempts to scale Mount Everest, every vibration from a high-tech vest she plans to wear will bring her closer to the top. If she succeeds, she’ll become the first deafblind person to reach the summit. It’s an extraordinary feat that will be supported by the Haptic Harness – a signal-sending vest co-created by Leon Lu, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Q&A with Sarah Sharma, Author of Insufferable Tools

Featuring Sarah Sharma

Published April 16, 2026 in News from Duke University Press

Sarah Sharma's new book, Insufferable Tools, reveals Big Tech’s patriarchal deployment of media theory to gain and maintain power and proposes a new feminist politics of tech that can forge futures free from the grip of the broligarchs of contemporary tech culture.

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Hidden Labour: UTM Researcher Exposes Material Realities of Digital Capitalism

Featuring Julie Yujie Chen

Published January 7, 2026 by the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research & Innovation

Julie Yujie Chen wants us to rethink the digital world, not as a cloud of data, but as a system built on human labour. She has spent her career uncovering the material realities behind digital technologies.

Texting with... Lilia Topouzova

Featuring Lilia Topouzova

Published September 25, 2025 in The European Review of Books

In her new book, Unsilencing; The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag, Lilia Topouzova presents a study of Bulgaria’s forced-labour camps. She has traced the systematic repression of the communist regime by way of oral history, archival research, art projects, and an essay with us that later unfolded into a multimedia installation at the Venice Biennale.