Awards

  • 2009  Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University. 
  • 2006  Marie-Curie International Fellowship, European Commission. 
  • 2003  Distinguished Research Lecturer Award, University of Central Florida, College of Engineering and Computer Science.
  • 2002  Distributed Mentoring Affiliate Award, Computing Research Association-Women  (CRA-W).
  • 2000  Nils Nilsson Award for Integrating AI Technologies, Assoc. for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), with Dr. Murphy.
  • 2000  Technical Innovation Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial  Intelligence (AAAI), with Dr. Murphy.
  • 1997  Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University.
  • 1996  NIH Individual Research Service Award, National Institute of Health (NIH). 

Honors

Editorial Boards 
  • 2013-2016  Editorial Board of the Advances in Human Computer Interaction Journal.
  • 2010-2016  Founding Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Key Notes 
  • 2013  International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interactions (ACII’13), Geneva, SWITZERLAND.
  • 2008 IFIP World Congress on Computing - Women and Technology Conference, Milan, ITALY.
  • 2007 Robocup International Conference, Atlanta, USA.
  • 2005  Interact  Workshop on Context and Emotion Aware Computing, Rome, ITALY.
  • 2004 72nd Congrés de l’AFCAS - Informatique Cognitive, Montreal, CANADA.