Affiliations and Service

Affiliations:

Leadership Roles:

  1. AI Aura: a platform to explore the intersections between AI, society, and education. Co-founder with Drs. Shanshan Rodriguez and Sarah Purcell.
  2. Summer workshop: What Does AI Mean to Our Community at Grinnell College? Co-lead with Drs. Rodriguez, Shanshan, and Osera, Peter-Michael, June 2-4, 2025.
  3. Conversations in the Humanities. Untraining Predictability: A Humanistic Approach to GenAI. Grinnell College, September 2025.
  4. Conversation in the Humanities. What is leadership like right now, and how can we produce leaders (our students) to lead in a changing world? Teaser: our 12-minute podcast. Co-lead with Dr. Osera, Peter-Michael, Grinnell College, March 2025.
  5. AI coffee chat, ELBICA lab, Grinnell College, Fall 2021 – present.
  6. Launched and maintains G-ArchiTech, the CSC324/326 online presence to showcase students’ Software Design and Development projects. 2021- present.
  7. Deputy Chair, Student Posters/ACM Student Research Competition Chairs, TAPIA 2021.
  8. CS Table, in collaboration with Dr. Curtsinger, Grinnell College, Spring 2021 and Fall 2020.

Reviewer:

  • CoCoMARL 2025, the 2nd Coordination and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Workshop, Meta-reviewer.
  • COGSCI 2024- current – Cognitive Science Society, Technical Program Committee.
  • Student Posters/ ACM Student Research Competition Sub-Program, TAPIA 2022, 2024, 2025.
  • HUSO, International Conference on Human and Social Analytics. Technical Program Committee, 2016 – present.
  • COGNITIVE, The Twelfth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. Technical Program Committee, 2020 – present.
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Jan 2023.
  • AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20 and AAAI-19: Program Committee Member; AAAI-18:  ad hoc reviewer), 2018 – 2019.
  • Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, 2018, and 2020.
  • SBP-BRiMS, International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Technical Program Committee, 2019.
  •     CBIC, XII Brazilian Conference on Computational Intelligence. Ad hoc reviewer, 2005.
  •     ENIAC, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence Conference, Brazilian Special Interest Groups. Ad hoc reviewer, 2013.

Invited Speaker / Panelist:

  1. Keynote speaker “Crossroads of AI, Philosophy, and Abstraction,” HUSO 2025.
  2. Panelist for Cognition, Intelligence, and AI, Infosys 2025 Congress.
  3. Panelist: AI in our Midst. Sponsored by the 50th Reunion Class of 1975, Grinnell Alumni Reunion, 2025. Panelists: Drs. Sarah Purcell, Fernanda Eliott, Karla Erickson, and Alex Turner.
  4. Panelist: Conversation in the Humanities: We need to talk about AI, fall 2025.
  5. Can Insights from the Multi-Agent Systems’ Coordination/Cooperation Dichotomy Enlighten Empathy Investigation? Harris Fellow talk, Grinnell College, 2024.
  6. Invited guest, Open discussion, AI-Challenges: Sentience and Consciousness, InfoWare2023 Congress. 

Previous Communities:

  1.  Warriors LATTICE Mentoring Circle, Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: An Intentional Community in Engineering.
  2. Elpha, a community where women in tech talk candidly online (closed in 2024).
  3. R-ladies Nashville (2017-2019).
  4. Active Learning Community, Vanderbilt University (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019).