Presentations
Trusting the machine - Psychology Discovery Conference 2025 (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
This study investigates the effect of anthropomorphism on trust of the information generated by generative AI (GenAI) within the context of science communication in two experiments.
The Mind in the Machine - Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment Conference 2024 (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
This study examines impressions of GenAI demonstrating cognitive and affective facets of theory of mind (ToM) in chat-based interactions.
Prune To Bloom - Psychology Discovery Conference 2024 (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Presentation of my learnings from a directed studies course. I spent the term learning about how and why our brains do synaptic pruning. I also implemented an existing computational model of learning adding optional pruning algorithms to explore these ideas.