Named a McKnight Dissertation Fellow
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Awarded the Florida Education Fund 2023 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship.
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Named a National GEM Consortium Fellow
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NASEM NRC Postdoc @ AFRL
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Thrilled to be at the Air Force Research Laboratory in the 711th Human Performance Wing as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate. During my tenure at the AFRL, I will work on projects aimed at learning about elements of human-computer interaction, ML/AI/LLM explainability and tranparency regarding trust. Looking forward to these next couple of years!
Successfully defended my dissertation!
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After 6 years of hard work, I succesfully defended my dissertation entitled, “An Exploratory Analysis of Automated Deception Detection in Mental Health Applications”. I am so grateful to my advisor, committee, family, mentors, and friends for their continuous support. Go Bulls!
Keynote Presentation - 4th Workshop on Applied Multimodal Affective Recognition at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey
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I was invited to present a keynote talk at AMAR 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey on Applied Affective Computing for Mental Health. I had a wonderful time in Istanbul and am grateful for the opportunity to present!
PhD Journey
Became a PhD Candidate
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In my Major Area Presentation (better known as a proposal), I presented an overview of my progress thus far toward my dissertation. Specifically, I highlighted key research in the literature, presented my research study on the perceptions of mental health counselors on the use of AI for deception detection in therapeutic settings, and discussed future studies, and my completion timeline.
Presentations
Presented at NUBE2023
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Presented an accepted abstract with Erin Gallagher, Executive Director of This is My Brave at the 2023 National Update on Behavioral Emergencies Conference (NUBE2023) in Las Vegas, Nevada.