Trainee Research
"Facial Expressions May Forecast Depression Diagnosis in 5 Years"
Sekine Ozturk, M.A., Roman Kotov, Ph.D., Aprajita Mohanty, Ph.D.
The Society for Affective Science 2023 Conference
March 30-April 1, 2025
Long Beach, CA
"Projecting Characters’ Knowledge from Utterances in Narratives: A Psycholinguistic
Baseline for LLMs"
Adil Soubki, Amie Paige, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
ToM4AI (Theory of Mind for Artificial Intelligence) Workshop, AAAI ‘2025, Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
March 2, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
"ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses"
John Murzaku, Zifan Liu, Mehrab Tanjim, Vaishnavi Muppala, Xiang Chen, & Yunyao Li
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
February 25-March 4, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
"Extracting Information from Obstetricians' Judgments Using Order-Constrained Models"
Alexandra Ortmann, Medhini Urs, Daniel R. Cavagnaro, Michel Regenwetter, Christian C. Luhmann
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2023 Annual Meeting
November 17-20, 2024
San Francisco, CA
"Quantitative Frameworks for Assessing Equity Gaps in Undergraduate Classrooms: Comparing
Learning Across Traditional/Reformed Contexts"
Benjamin Hechtman, Gena Sbeglia, Ross Nehm, & Alexandra Anthonioz
2024 NRT Annual Meeting
October 20-23, 2024
Arlington, VA
"Transformers, but Not the Kind You're Thinking of: Commodity Market Forecasting Using
Natual Language Processing"
Dana Golden, Dikshya Mohanty, and Khushboo Singh
ACM Conference: Gender Inclusive Workshop
July 8-11, 2024
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Listening to Code-Switching: Do Bilinguals' Language Backgrounds Matter?"
MacKenzie Johnson and Susan E. Brennan
BCBL Pupillometry Workshop
May 29-31, 2024
San Sebastian, Spain
"Listening to Code-Switching: Do Bilinguals' Language Backgrounds Matter?"
MacKenzie Johnson and Susan E. Brennan
BCBL Pupillometry Workshop
May 29-31, 2024
San Sebastian, Spain
"Retention of Underrepresented Students in STEM: Lesson's from Stony Brook's Simons
STEM Scholar Program"
Alexandra Anthonioz, Chelsie O. Burchett, Tori Peña, Erwin Cabrera, Natasha McCombs, Brady Brick, Catherine
Scott, Bonita London
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Annual Convention
February 8-10, 2024
San Diego, CA
Conference Poster
"How Considering Future Consequences of Purchase Decisions Relates to Beliefs About
the Utility of Money"
Carl J. Wiedemann & Antonio L. Freitas, Ph.D.
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2023 Annual Convention
February 23-25, 2023
Atlanta, GA
LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication
Zhengxiang Wang, Weiling Li, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
November 4 - November 9, 2025
Suzhou, China
MisVisFix: An Interactive Dashboard for Detecting, Explaining, and Correcting Misleading
Visualizations using Large Language Models
Amit Kumar Das and Klaus Mueller
The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2025
November 2, – November 7, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Charts-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Visualization Literacy Through Structured Data Extraction
Amit Kumar Das , Mohammad Tarun ,and Klaus Mueller
The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2025
November 2, – November 7, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Seen2Scene: a generative model of fixation-by-fixation scene understanding
Ritik Raina, Abe Leite, Alexandros Graikos, Seoyoung Ahn, and Gregory J. Zelinsky
8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
August 12 - August 15, 2025
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LLMscanPerform Multi-Dimensional Analytic Writing Assessments: ACase Study of L2 Graduate-Level
Academic English Writing
Zhengxiang Wang, Veronika Makarova, Zhi Li, Jordan Kodner, and Owen Rambow
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)
July 27 - August 1, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Synthetic Audio Helps for Cognitive State Tasks
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Peter Zeng, and Owen Rambow
Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for the
Computational Linguistics
April 29–May 4, 2025
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Leveraging Large Language Models for Personalized Public Messaging
Amit Kumar Das, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, and Klaus Mueller
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for
Computing Machinery
April 26- May 1, 2025
New York, NY
Multimodal Belief Prediction
John Murzaku, Adil Soubki, and Owen Rambow
Interspeech 2024
Kos Island, Greece
September 1-5, 2024
Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives
Amie J. Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
SIGdial 2024
September 18-20, 2024
Kyoto, Japan
Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness
Adil Soubki, Shyne Choi, and Owen Rambow
SIGDial 2024
September 18-20, 2024
Kyoto, Japan
Views Are My Own, but Also Yours: Benchmarking Theory of Mind Using Common Ground
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Arash Yousefi Jordehi, Peter Zeng, Magdalena Markowska, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, and Owen Rambow
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
August 11-16, 2024
Bangkok, Thailand
BeLeaf: Belief Prediction as Tree Generation
John Murzaku and Owen Rambow
2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics
June 16-21, 2024
Mexico City, Mexico
The Nature of Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence Among Mass Publics
Ignacio Urbina and Oleg Smirnov
Will a Robot Take My Job?
Ignacio Urbina
Midwest Political Science Association 2024 Annual Meeting
April 4-7, 2024
Chicago, IL
A Brief Intervention to Help Listeners Process an Unfamiliar Non-Native Accent
James May, Jeanne Charoy, Emily Napoli, Chikako Takahashi, Jean Hendrickson, Marie Huffman, and
Susan E. Brennan
Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting
November 16-19, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: Vaccine mandates and emotions toward vaccines and public
officials on Twitter
Pei-Hsun Hsieh
5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2023
May 12-13, 2023
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
"FairPlay: A Collaborative Approach to Mitigate Bias in Datasets for Improved AI Fairness"
Tina Behzad, Mithilesh Kumar Singh, Anthony J. Ripa, and Klaus Mueller
Association for Computing Machinery
May 2, 2025
A Computational Decision-Tree Approach to Inform Post-Conviction Intake Decisions
Kalina Kostyszyn, Carl J. Wiedemann, Rosa Bermejo, Amie Paige, Kristen W. Kalb-DellaRatta, & Susan E. Brennan
The Wrongful Conviction Law Review
May 31, 2024
"Facial Expressions May Forecast Depression Diagnosis in 5 Years"
Sekine Ozturk, M.A., Roman Kotov, Ph.D., Aprajita Mohanty, Ph.D.
The Society for Affective Science 2023 Conference
March 30-April 1, 2025
Long Beach, CA
"Projecting Characters’ Knowledge from Utterances in Narratives: A Psycholinguistic
Baseline for LLMs"
Adil Soubki, Amie Paige, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
ToM4AI (Theory of Mind for Artificial Intelligence) Workshop, AAAI ‘2025, Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
March 2, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
"ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses"
John Murzaku, Zifan Liu, Mehrab Tanjim, Vaishnavi Muppala, Xiang Chen, & Yunyao Li
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
February 25-March 4, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
"Extracting Information from Obstetricians' Judgments Using Order-Constrained Models"
Alexandra Ortmann, Medhini Urs, Daniel R. Cavagnaro, Michel Regenwetter, Christian C. Luhmann
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2023 Annual Meeting
November 17-20, 2024
San Francisco, CA
"Quantitative Frameworks for Assessing Equity Gaps in Undergraduate Classrooms: Comparing
Learning Across Traditional/Reformed Contexts"
Benjamin Hechtman, Gena Sbeglia, Ross Nehm, & Alexandra Anthonioz
2024 NRT Annual Meeting
October 20-23, 2024
Arlington, VA
"Transformers, but Not the Kind You're Thinking of: Commodity Market Forecasting Using
Natual Language Processing"
Dana Golden, Dikshya Mohanty, and Khushboo Singh
ACM Conference: Gender Inclusive Workshop
July 8-11, 2024
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Listening to Code-Switching: Do Bilinguals' Language Backgrounds Matter?"
MacKenzie Johnson and Susan E. Brennan
BCBL Pupillometry Workshop
May 29-31, 2024
San Sebastian, Spain
"Listening to Code-Switching: Do Bilinguals' Language Backgrounds Matter?"
MacKenzie Johnson and Susan E. Brennan
BCBL Pupillometry Workshop
May 29-31, 2024
San Sebastian, Spain
"Retention of Underrepresented Students in STEM: Lesson's from Stony Brook's Simons
STEM Scholar Program"
Alexandra Anthonioz, Chelsie O. Burchett, Tori Peña, Erwin Cabrera, Natasha McCombs, Brady Brick, Catherine
Scott, Bonita London
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Annual Convention
February 8-10, 2024
San Diego, CA
Conference Poster
"How Considering Future Consequences of Purchase Decisions Relates to Beliefs About
the Utility of Money"
Carl J. Wiedemann & Antonio L. Freitas, Ph.D.
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2023 Annual Convention
February 23-25, 2023
Atlanta, GA
LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication
Zhengxiang Wang, Weiling Li, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
November 4 - November 9, 2025
Suzhou, China
MisVisFix: An Interactive Dashboard for Detecting, Explaining, and Correcting Misleading
Visualizations using Large Language Models
Amit Kumar Das and Klaus Mueller
The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2025
November 2, – November 7, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Charts-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Visualization Literacy Through Structured Data Extraction
Amit Kumar Das , Mohammad Tarun ,and Klaus Mueller
The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2025
November 2, – November 7, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Seen2Scene: a generative model of fixation-by-fixation scene understanding
Ritik Raina, Abe Leite, Alexandros Graikos, Seoyoung Ahn, and Gregory J. Zelinsky
8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
August 12 - August 15, 2025
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LLMscanPerform Multi-Dimensional Analytic Writing Assessments: ACase Study of L2 Graduate-Level
Academic English Writing
Zhengxiang Wang, Veronika Makarova, Zhi Li, Jordan Kodner, and Owen Rambow
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)
July 27 - August 1, 2025
Vienna, Austria
Synthetic Audio Helps for Cognitive State Tasks
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Peter Zeng, and Owen Rambow
Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for the
Computational Linguistics
April 29–May 4, 2025
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Leveraging Large Language Models for Personalized Public Messaging
Amit Kumar Das, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, and Klaus Mueller
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for
Computing Machinery
April 26- May 1, 2025
New York, NY
Multimodal Belief Prediction
John Murzaku, Adil Soubki, and Owen Rambow
Interspeech 2024
Kos Island, Greece
September 1-5, 2024
Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives
Amie J. Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. Brennan
SIGdial 2024
September 18-20, 2024
Kyoto, Japan
Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness
Adil Soubki, Shyne Choi, and Owen Rambow
SIGDial 2024
September 18-20, 2024
Kyoto, Japan
Views Are My Own, but Also Yours: Benchmarking Theory of Mind Using Common Ground
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Arash Yousefi Jordehi, Peter Zeng, Magdalena Markowska, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, and Owen Rambow
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
August 11-16, 2024
Bangkok, Thailand
BeLeaf: Belief Prediction as Tree Generation
John Murzaku and Owen Rambow
2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics
June 16-21, 2024
Mexico City, Mexico
The Nature of Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence Among Mass Publics
Ignacio Urbina and Oleg Smirnov
Will a Robot Take My Job?
Ignacio Urbina
Midwest Political Science Association 2024 Annual Meeting
April 4-7, 2024
Chicago, IL
A Brief Intervention to Help Listeners Process an Unfamiliar Non-Native Accent
James May, Jeanne Charoy, Emily Napoli, Chikako Takahashi, Jean Hendrickson, Marie Huffman, and
Susan E. Brennan
Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting
November 16-19, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: Vaccine mandates and emotions toward vaccines and public
officials on Twitter
Pei-Hsun Hsieh
5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2023
May 12-13, 2023
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
"FairPlay: A Collaborative Approach to Mitigate Bias in Datasets for Improved AI Fairness"
Tina Behzad, Mithilesh Kumar Singh, Anthony J. Ripa, and Klaus Mueller
Association for Computing Machinery
May 2, 2025
A Computational Decision-Tree Approach to Inform Post-Conviction Intake Decisions
Kalina Kostyszyn, Carl J. Wiedemann, Rosa Bermejo, Amie Paige, Kristen W. Kalb-DellaRatta, & Susan E. Brennan
The Wrongful Conviction Law Review
May 31, 2024