Presentations

Invited talks, panels, and posters.

2026

Cognitive Modeling of Church Polarization. NetLogo Conference 2026. Chicago, IL. To be presented by students Katelin Jandris, Ryan Klein, and Ovgu Tufan (senior project).
A Framework for Modeling Christian Communities with Agent-Based Models. Baylor Symposium on Faith & Culture 2026 — Technology and the Human Person in the Age of AI. Waco, TX. Slides.

Grace Hopper Celebration 2025. Grace Hopper Celebration 2025. Chicago IL USA. The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the worlds largest gathering of women in computing. I am the main advisor of the Girls Who Code group at Calvin University..
Behavioral Insights into Political Polarization in Christian Communities through Computational Modeling. American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Annual Meeting 2025. Virtual/Hybrid. Slides.
(poster) Scientific Collaboration in Health and Life Sciences: A Study of Brazil’s Contributions and Partnerships. INSNA Sunbelt 2025. Paris, France. With Juliana Freitas Lopes et al. (Fiocruz).
(panel) Algorithms Democracy and Society: challenges and perspectives (Education and AI). Algoritmos e Sociedade — UFG. Brazil (online). In Portuguese.
Modeling Introversion in the Classroom: An Agent-Based Approach. Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG) 2025. Detroit, MI. Presented by students Daniel Kwon and Jaden Brookens (senior project).

Agent-Based Modeling Applications in Brazilian Contexts. 19º Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas (CBS). Goiânia, Brazil. In Portuguese.