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. BrennanToM4AI (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 LiThe 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. LuhmannThe 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 Anthonioz2024 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 SinghACM 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. BrennanBCBL Pupillometry Workshop
May 29-31, 2024
San Sebastian, Spain
"Vicarious Racism from Social Networks and Media Predicts Psychological Distress Among Undergraduates"
Rosa M. Bermejo and Dr. Bonita LondonNational Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
May 28 - June 1, 2024
Honolulu, HI"Social Media and Social Networks: College Student Experiences with Vicarious Racism"
Rosa M. Bermejo and Dr. Bonita LondonThe Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Annual Convention
February 8-10, 2024
San Diego, CA
"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 LondonThe 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
"LVLMsare Badat Overhearing Human Referential Communication"
Zhengxiang Wang, Weiling Li, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. BrennanThe 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 MuellerThe 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 MuellerThe 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. Zelinsky8th 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 RambowThe 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 RambowAnnual 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 MuellerCHI 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 RambowInterspeech 2024
Kos Island, Greeece
September 1-5, 2024


Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives
Amie J. Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow, and Susan E. BrennanSIGdial 2024
September 18-20, 2024
Kyoto, Japan
Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness
Adil Soubki, Shyne Choi, and Owen RambowSIGDial 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 RambowThe 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 Rambow2024 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 SmirnovWill a Robot Take My Job?
Ignacio UrbinaMidwest 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. BrennanPsychonomic 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 Hsieh5th 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 MuellerAssociation 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. BrennanThe Wrongful Conviction Law Review
May 31, 2024
