| Jun 2025 | Presented a poster “Dyadic Support in Group Chats: Effects on Motivation and Engagement in a Sitting Reduction Intervention” at the conference Innovations in Interpersonal Relationships and Health Research. Advancing the Integration of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dyadic Behavior Change, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| Jun 2025 | Gave a talk titled “Do Chatbots Belong in Online Peer Support? Early Reflections on LLMs in Health Communities” at the PhD Summer Conference “Legal, Ethical and Implementation Challenges of AI in Healthcare”, hosted by the UZH Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| May 2025 | Presented a poster at the Fourth ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference, Dublin, Ireland. |
| Apr 2025 | Featured in the 30 Under 30: Ireland’s Top Tech Innovators list for research on using LLMs to boost engagement in online peer support groups. |
| Apr 2025 | Served as a Student Volunteer at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan. |
| Apr 2025 | Started my 1-month research visit at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, USA, collaborating with Dr. Marily Oppezzo on the Move Often eVery Day intervention. |
| Feb 2025 | Our LBW paper on “Understanding Group Engagement in Online Peer Support Groups: Influence of Structured Elements and Organic Interactions” was accepted to the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025. |
| Jan 2025 | Started my 3-month research visit at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), UC Irvine, USA, collaborating with Dr. Sean Young on multiple projects related to IBS, online peer support groups, and conversational agents. |
| Dec 2024 | Presented a poster at the Annual Research Symposium 2024, Dublin, Ireland. |
| Oct 2024 | Published the paper “Exploring the Characteristics of Conversational Agents in Chronic Disease Management Interventions: A Scoping Review” in Digital Health. |
| Oct 2024 | Participated in the Marktplatz Innovation event as part of the Precision Digital Therapeutics team in Zurich, Switzerland. |
| Sep 2024 | Presented a poster “Conversational Agents as Supportive Agents in Health-related Peer Support Groups” at the Health Care Research Seminar, Säntis, Switzerland. |
| Sep 2024 | Started my 3-month research visit at the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, collaborating with Dr. Rasita Vinay on the GRACE project, a Voice Assistant for People with Early Dementia. |
| May 2024 | Presented a poster at the Third ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference, Dublin, Ireland. |
| May 2024 | Received a grant to participate in the SFI-NSF Student Mobility Programme, where I’ll be working with Professor Sean Young, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Informatics, University of California Institute, the USA. |
| Apr 2024 | Participated in the fourth Advanced Language Processing School co-organized by LIG (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Naver Labs Europe, and Cohere, where I presented a poster “Exploring the Role of Conversational Agents in Enhancing Social Support within Online Peer Support Groups”. |
| Feb 2024 | Participated in the HPLT & NLPL Winter School 2024 on Large Language Models: Creation, Customization, Evaluation, and Use organised by University of Oslo, Norway. |
| Jan 2024 | Our paper “Chatting for Change: Insights into and Directions for Using Online Peer Support Groups to Interrupt Prolonged Workplace Sitting” is in a short list of candidates to win the BIOSTEC 2024 Best Student Paper Award. |
| Dec 2023 | Our full paper on “Chatting for Change: Insights into and Directions for Using Online Peer Support Groups to Interrupt Prolonged Workplace Sitting” was accepted to the 17th International Conference on Health Informatics 2024. |
| Sep 2023 | Served as a Student Volunteer at MobileHCI, Athens, Greece. |
| Sep 2023 | Our paper on “The Potential and Limitations of Conversational Agents for Chronic Conditions and Well-being” was published in the 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2023, Adjunct Proceedings. |
| Jun 2023 | Participated in “Spaces and Interfaces: A Summer School on HCI for Well-being” organised by UBremen and UCL, ACM SIGCHI Sponsored, Bremen, Germany. |
| Jun 2023 | Presented a poster on “Investigating the Use of Conversational Agents as Accountable Buddies to Support Health and Lifestyle Change” at the First Annual Teaching and Research Showcase 2023, Dublin, Ireland. |
| May 2023 | Presented a poster at the Second ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference, Dublin, Ireland. |
| May 2023 | Started collaborating with the research team (PI: Marily Oppezzo) from Stanford University on the NIH-funded MOV’D (Move Often eVery Day) intervention. The study aims to test the effectiveness of “exercise snacks” in improving productivity, mood, exercise habits, and overall well-being. |
| Apr 2023 | Participated in the mentorship program at the Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, ACM CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany. |
| Apr 2023 | Served as a Student Volunteer at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany. |
| Apr 2023 | Participated in Doctoral Consortium at the 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2023, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. |
| Feb 2023 | Joined Student Committee for Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (d-real) as Student Representative in Technological University Dublin. |