Alexi Orchard is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Technology and Digital Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Her academic work is situated at the intersection of humanities and computing disciplines. She teaches and researches in the areas of engineering and technology ethics, responsible innovation, critical and speculative design, and professional writing and communication.
From 2022 to 2024, she managed the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo, a cross-disciplinary digital design facility funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and Faculty Affiliate of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.
In 2024, Dr. Orchard was an Alumni Gold Medal Finalist for outstanding academic achievement in her PhD dissertation, “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Ethical Engineering and Responsible Innovation,” at the University of Waterloo.
RECENT
10/2026: Accepted workshop paper, “Investigating the Impacts of Generative AI on Information Seeking” at CSCW 2026 Broader Impacts of GenAI in Communication
10/2026: Accepted abstract, “Not Another “Phone-Free” Experiment: The Mundane As Mechanism for Reenvisioning Contemporary (Non)Digital Life” at 4S Society for Social Studies of Science 2026.
09/2026: Accepted abstract, “Look Before Crossing: Establishing a Proverbial Yield Sign for AI Adoption” at International Symposium on Digital Ethics: MAGIS, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago
06/2026: Accepted paper “Expertise and Information Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: New Procedures, New Problematics” in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11552362
04/2026: Invited speaker, Cosmotechnique(s): approches culturelles de la technique. International Listening Lab, Université Catholique de L’Ouest.