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.
2025
- 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).
2024
- Agent-Based Modeling Applications in Brazilian Contexts. 19º Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas (CBS). Goiânia, Brazil. In Portuguese.