| 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. |