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Talks, papers, panels, awards. The work in motion — most recent first.

  • Kaycie Barron presented on Translanguaging, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Science Classrooms: A Multiple Case Study at the American Education Research Association conference in Los Angeles, California.

  • Kaycie Barron was awarded the 2026 Michael Vincent O’Shea and Harriet Frisbie Eastabrooks O’Shea Fellowship for her work on advancing ethical AI applications in bi/multilingual learning contexts.

  • Kaycie Barron presented on Characterizing Language Model Biases Using Linguistic Variations in Translanguaging at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Alina Guha presented on Teacher Perceptions on AI Support for Bi/multilingual Learners: Superpowers and Constraints at the Artificial Intelligence in Education conference.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah was an invited speaker at the "AI and Society" event hosted by the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium.

  • Kaycie Barron presented on Evaluating Language Models Using Linguistic Variations in Multilingual Learners’ Writing at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) in Helsinki, Finland.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah joined a post-grad panel on academia hosted by Penn GSE - LST/TLL.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah participated in the "AI & Learning" panel hosted by Phi Beta Kappa, UW-Madison.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah delivered a talk on "Bias in LLMs" for the Smart Cookie Visiting Professor Series at American Family Insurance.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah joined a panel on "Deliberation Dinners" at the UW-Madison Diversity Forum.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave a talk on "Auditing and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in LLMs" at UW-Madison School of Business.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave a webinar on "AI, Bias, and Equity" at the Institute of Diversity Science, UW-Madison.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah participated in a panel on "Learning Sciences and EdTech Evaluation" hosted by EdTech Society, India.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah presented and joined a panel on "AI in Teaching and Learning" at the National Academy of Education (NAEd) Annual Meeting.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah delivered an invited talk on "Bias in Adaptive and Artificially Intelligent Learning Systems" at IIT Bombay.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited seminar on "Teacher in Action with AI Tutors" for the ITP Program at UW-Madison.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah delivered a webinar on "Bias in Adaptive Learning Systems" for the Quantitative Ethnography Webinar Series.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "Algorithmic Injustices in Education" at Pace University.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "Upstream Biases in Adaptive Learning Systems" as part of the Data Science Guild Series at IBM Kyndryl.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah presented "The Upstream Sources of Bias in Educational Adaptive Systems" at Rising Stars in EECS, MIT.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "The Upstream Sources of Bias in Educational Adaptive Systems" at Microsoft PROSE Research Team.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "Re-Analysis and Synthesis of Data on Affect Dynamics in Learning" at University of California Irvine.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave a featured talk on "Machine Learning and Learning Sciences" at Catalyst with ProjectEd, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave a research talk on "Predicting Quitting in Learning Games" at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference (BayLAN), Stanford University.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah presented research on "Predicting Quitting in Learning Games" at WiML @ NeurIPS 2018.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "Promoting Engagement in Virtual Learning Environment" at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah presented a lightning talk on "Predicting Quitting in Learning Games" at Penn Research in Machine Learning (PriML), University of Pennsylvania.

  • Shamya Karumbaiah gave an invited talk on "Student Frustration and Learning Game Design" at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

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