Project Leadership

We Are Air Aware is led by an interdisciplinary team spanning computational art, interaction design, and atmospheric science.

Research Collaborators and Advisors

We Are Air Aware is supported by collaborators and advisors with expertise in environmental health, atmospheric science, engineering, interaction design, and global health.

Dr. Claire Davies

Co-Supervisor
Queen's University

Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou

External Advisor
University of Toronto

Prof. H. Oliver Gao

External Advisor
Cornell University

Dr. Jacqueline Klopp

External Advisor
Columbia University

Project Team

The following team members support the ongoing design, development, implementation, and operation of We Are Air Aware.

Aadee Patil

Full-Stack Developer

Ongoing website development, technical implementation, deployment, and maintenance of MyAirWear.ca.

aadee.xyz

Dave Dohyoung Kim

Research Assistant
Social and Technological Systems (SaTS) Lab

Supports prototype development, fabrication, electronics integration, and research activities.

Khushi Jetley

Research Assistant
Social and Technological Systems (SaTS) Lab

Supports co-design research, participant engagement, and project implementation.

Collaborators & Acknowledgements

We Are Air Aware has benefited from the knowledge and contributions of collaborators across art, design, atmospheric science, engineering, information technology, and community-engaged research.

We thank Abolfazl Anvari Kohestani and Dr. Gerd Grau for expertise and support in electronics, additive manufacturing, and laser-induced graphene sensor development; Dr. Joel Ong for contributions to computational media, biomedia art, and public sensing; and Ranee Lee and Dr. Mark-David Hosale

We thank Bahar Amini, Basak Babadagi, Sabrina Huffman, and Amine Mahmoudi for their research, design and sensor-development contributions.

We thank Gian Cambridge for the original website design and development and for contributions to visual communication; and we also thank James Dunne and G. M. Crevier for photography.

Funding Acknowledgement

This research has been undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Connected Minds Program, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF-2022-00010); the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration, SensingChange (NFRFE-2023-00830); a SSHRC Explore Grant (Project P2026-0327); and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health 2026 Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant.