Cynthia Breazeal

35 papers · 2019–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🏃 Academic Marathon (6) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (64) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (20) 👥 Mega-Team (42) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (12) 🔬 Deep Specialist (11) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion (7) ❓ The Questioner (3) 📈 Trend Setter 🗃️ Keyword Collector (158) ⚡ Prolific Year (8) 🔥 Unstoppable (5) 💎 Century Club (34) 🚀 Conference Pioneer

Conferences

AAAI (20) EMNLP (7) ACL (3) IJCAI (2) IJCNLP (1) NAACL (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Hae Won Park (12) Safinah Ali (7) Hal Abelson (5) Randi Williams (5) Dong Won Lee (4) Sharifa Alghowinem (4) Yubin Kim (4) Ishaan Grover (4) Daniella DiPaola (4) Sarah Wharton (3)

Research topics

Education (11) Digital Humanities (1)

Keywords

ai education (7) large language model (6) ai literacy (6) k-12 education (6) reinforcement learning (4) curriculum design (4) multimodal learning (3) generative model (3) ethical implication (3) social robot (3) responsible ai (3) artificial intelligence education (3) generative ai (3) dialogue generation (2) text classification (2) prompt engineering (2) text-to-image generation (2) clinical reasoning (2) affective computing (2) human-robot interaction (2)

Papers

Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies AAAI 2026

Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education Through a Focus on Implementation: Insights from a Middle School Computer Vision Module Beta-Test AAAI 2025

The Indoor-Training Effect: Unexpected Gains from Distribution Shifts in the Transition Function AAAI 2025

Designing Characters with AI: An Art & AI Learning Activity AAAI 2025

Supporting AI Literacy Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use AAAI 2025

Model AI Assignments 2025 AAAI 2025

Does “Reasoning” with Large Language Models Improve Recognizing, Generating and Reframing Unhelpful Thoughts? ACL 2025

Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication EMNLP 2025

BehaviorSFT: Behavioral Token Conditioning for Health Agents Across the Proactivity Spectrum EMNLP 2025

Aligning Dialogue Agents with Global Feedback via Large Language Model Multimodal Reward Decomposition EMNLP 2025

HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs EMNLP 2024

EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences ACL 2024

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators AAAI 2024

Constructing Dreams Using Generative AI AAAI 2024

Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students AAAI 2024

Global Reward to Local Rewards: Multimodal-Guided Decomposition for Improving Dialogue Agents EMNLP 2024

PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits NAACL 2024

MDAgents: An Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Medical Decision-Making NIPS 2024

“How Can I Code A.I. Responsibly?”: The Effect of Computational Action on K-12 Students Learning and Creating Socially Responsible A.I. AAAI 2023

Model AI Assignments 2023 AAAI 2023

MultiPar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations IJCAI 2023

Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives EMNLP 2023

AI Audit: A Card Game to Reflect on Everyday AI Systems AAAI 2023

An Introduction to Rule-Based Feature and Object Perception for Middle School Students AAAI 2023

Build-a-Bot: Teaching Conversational AI Using a Transformer-Based Intent Recognition and Question Answering Architecture AAAI 2023

Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students AAAI 2022

RetroGAN: A Cyclic Post-Specialization System for Improving Out-of-Knowledge and Rare Word Representations IJCNLP 2021

What are GANs?: Introducing Generative Adversarial Networks to Middle School Students AAAI 2021

PoseBlocks: A Toolkit for Creating (and Dancing) with AI AAAI 2021

RetroGAN: A Cyclic Post-Specialization System for Improving Out-of-Knowledge and Rare Word Representations ACL 2021

Teacher Perspectives on How To Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum AAAI 2021

MRF-Chat: Improving Dialogue with Markov Random Fields EMNLP 2021

PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education AAAI 2019

A Model-Free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of an Autonomous Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education AAAI 2019

A Semantics-based Model for Predicting Children's Vocabulary IJCAI 2019