π I attended ASPIRE 2025: the 69th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) in beautiful Chicago, IL! A few highlights:
With Ranjani Narayanan (Georgia Tech), I co-moderated a panel discussion entitled "Two Sides of the Same Coin? Joint Perspectives From Shared Mental Models and Interactive Team Cognition Theories on Human-AI Team Cognition" with Dr. Nancy Cooke (ASU), Dr. Karen Feigh (Georgia Tech), Dr. Stephen Fiore (UCF), and Laura Militello (Applied Decision Science). [Proceedings link here]
My ASU colleague Matthew Willett presented an ASU-Aptima collaboration from the DARPA Adaptive Distributed Allocation of Probabilistic Tasks project, with a poster entitled "Building an LLM-Based Teammate in Minecraft: A Testbed for Human-AI Collaboration". [Proceedings link here]
My Aptima colleague Hsien-Te Kao presented and demonstrated a key outcome from Aptima work on the DARPA Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams program, entitled, "VirTLab-Eval: Human-Agent Team and Digital Twin Performance Evaluation Demonstration". This work is the result of a years-long collaboration between Aptima, College of William & Mary, and Notre Dame University. [Proceedings link here]
π¨π¦ I attended the 2025 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in gorgeous Toronto, ON, Canada!Β
At the Agentic & GenAI Evaluation KDD2025: KDD workshop on Evaluation and Trustworthiness of Agentic and Generative AI Models, I presented an Aptima-Carnegie Mellon University collaborative work from the DARPA Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams program entitled, "Exploring Big Five Personality and AI Capability Effects in LLM-Simulated Negotiation Dialogues". [ArXiv link here]
π€ Our paper, "Birds of a Different Feather Flock Together: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Animal-Human-Machine Teaming" was accepted to the 3rd AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development!Β
This collaboration between Dr. Reuth Mirsky (Tufts University), Dr. David Grimm (Georgia Tech), Xiaoyun Yin (ASU), and myself was a outcome of the ASU's Superhuman Performance in Autonomous Robot Teaming Applications (SPARTA) Workshop on Human-Machine-Animal Teaming. [ArXiv link here]
πΌ I started a new role as an Associate Scientist at Aptima, Inc.
πΈπͺ At the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Gothenburg, Sweden, Dr. Daniel Nguyen presented our research entitled, "VirTLab: Augmented Intelligence for Modeling and Evaluating Human-AI Teaming Through Agent Interactions".[Proceedings link here].
This paper focused on our work on modeling human-AI teams through human digital twin experiments powered by large language modelsβone of the first fruits of our Aptima collaboration with the College of William & Mary and Notre Dame University, from DARPA's Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams program.Β
π§βπ« As the inaugural CHART Scholar of ASU's Global Security Initiative, I headed the first-ever CHART Student Workshop on Transdisciplinary Human-AI-Robot Teaming Research at ASU's Tempe campus. The workshop brought together more than 40 ASU students, faculty, and staff for transdisciplinary panel discussions and research hackathon projects spanning law, literature, psychology, robotics, computer science, and human factors.
π° I was featured in two articles in the farewell newsletter of ASU's Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE).Β
In an article about my dissertation project, CHIMERAS, I was featured for my leadership role in the proposal-writing and execution of the project [link here].Β
Another article featured my 5-year journey as a PhD student at the CAOE [link here] working with Dr. Nancy Cooke, Dr. Erin Chiou, and Dr. Mickey Mancenido.
ππ My first lead author journal publication, "PADTHAI-MM: Principles-based approach for designing trustworthy, human-centered AI using the MAST methodology", is finally available in AI Magazine! [Open Access link here]
π We're starting the year off strong: we are launching my dissertation grant projectβCollaborative Human-AI Interdependence Models for Explainable, Resilient, and Accurate Screening (CHIMERAS)βfunded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through ASU's Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency. CHIMERAS is a collaboration between ASU and Aptima, in which we investigate the wide variety of human-AI interaction designs for trustworthy decision aids in airport security screening tasks.
π΅ I attended ASPIRE 2024: the 68th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) right at home in Phoenix, AZ! So many exciting things happened:
π I received the HFES Student Member with Honors award for outstanding contributions to the field as a student. I also received the Gold Student Chapter Award on behalf of the HFES Student Chapter at ASU for our chapter's exemplary achievements under my presidency in 2023-2024.
π§βπ«Β I gave a lecture talk about my ongoing dissertation work, entitled "Observing Expertsβ Trust Calibration in XAI-Enabled Decision Support Systems: A Multiple Cause, Multiple (Behavioral) Indicator Model".
π€π I moderated a panel discussion entitled "Future of Team Research: On Teamness and Dimensions of Variability in Teams" with Dr. Nancy Cooke, Dr. Jamie Gorman, Dr. Wayne Gray, Dr. Sounak Banerjee, and Dr. Daniel Nguyen. [Proceedings link here]
π³οΈβππ I represented the HFES LGBTQ+ Affinity Group in a panel discussion entitled, "What Does It Mean to Be Inclusive? A Conversation with the HFES Council of Affinity Groups (COAG)". [Proceedings link here]
π I was selected as the inaugural CHART scholar by ASU's Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming! As part of this scholarship, I will lead a Summer 2025 program to equip the next generation of human-AI-robot researchers with the skillsets needed to pursue interdisciplinary collaborations needed for their research.
π οΈ I participated in the 2024 NextProf Nexus workshop at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, co-hosted by the University of California Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology.
π³π± I attended the EuroTech Summer School program entitled "Harmonizing Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration" at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.Β
π As part of the summer school, I participated in a Research Hackathon alongside Chenyang Wang from the Γcole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne and Maryam Azani of the Eindhoven University of Technology, under the mentorship of Dr. Josette Gevers of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Our proposal entitled "Systems Integration of AI-Enabled Writing Technologies in Scientific Writing Mentorship" was awarded the top prize.
π§βπ« I was invited to ASU's Machine Learning Day to give a lightning talk on my Ph.D. dissertation work, entitled "Beyond Explainability: Calibrating Human Trust in AI Through Interactive Cognition".
πΆ I participated in the Superhuman Performance in Autonomous Robot Teaming Applications (SPARTA) Workshop on Human-Machine-Animal Teaming, sponsored by ASU's Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming.Β
π We are now accepting paper submissions for a special issue I am co-editing with the journal Interaction Studies, entitled "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human-AI Team Trust", with colleagues from the ongoing MULTITTRUST Workshop series.
π I received the Best Presentation award for my lightning talk entitled "Timescales Matter: A Teamness Perspective for Modeling Trust in Human-Machine Teams" at the Human-Machine Teaming Paradigm Meeting in Boulder, CO. I also presented on the same topic during the Trust in HRI Workshop at the HRI Conference. (I also experienced snowfall for the first time in Boulder!)
π Our paper entitled "Towards Trustworthy AI-Enabled Decision Support Systems: Validation of the Multisource AI Scorecard Table (MAST)" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. [Published link here]
π³οΈβπ I began serving as Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Affinity Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
πΌ I started a new role as an Associate Research Engineer at Aptima, Inc.