AI-SDM Director, Aarti Singh, and Co-Director, Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will present a tutorial "Human-Centered AI: Challenges and Opportunities" at the AAAI (@aaai.org) Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Learn more about their tutorial here: www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/AAAI2... #AAAI26 #CMU

Anu Aggarwal is at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) presenting work titled "Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions." Exploiting cognitive biases may help us design more robust protections against cyber attacks! #HICSS #CMU #PicoCTF

As the year winds down, DDMLab members enjoy some of our annual holiday traditions!

DDMLab director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and her work with AI-SDM are featured in a new video accompanying the Department of Finance's annual report. She highlights learning more about the benefits and capabilities of human-AI collaborations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1F... #CMU #AI-SDM

Last week Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) spoke at the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. She discussed the concept of Cognitive AI, which emphasizes how humans and AI can support each other in dynamic environments. tdai.osu.edu/news/tdai-sp... #HumanAI #AI #CMU #OhioState #AISDM #TDAI

Check out Tailia Malloy's (@tailiamalloy.bsky.social) new paper "Improving online anti-phishing training using cognitive large language models" in Computers in Human Behavior. Learn about crafting training emails and how cognitive LLM's can enhance learning! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #phishing #LLM

Last weekend, DDMLab member Xiaohong Cai traveled to California to observe disaster management training with the American Red Cross Training Services. A major goal of our lab is developing artificial agents to assist professional relief managers during disasters. #AmericanRedCross #HumanAI #AI

Read our new paper “A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making” published with Springer Nature in Nature Portfolio-Nature Reviews Psychology. We examine how Cognitive AI can help design systems that complement human capabilities. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen discussing cognitive modeling and Instance-Based Learning Theory at the AI-SDM annual workshop! www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-sdm...

The DDMLab is ready! The NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM)'s annual workshop brings together leading experts on human-AI complementarity. We are honored to join them! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The DDMLab is proud to announce its 17th issue of the annual lab newsletter. The newsletter features updates on the progress of our work and news from our lab members. We hope you enjoy it! View as a pdf www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds... Or as a flipbook online.fliphtml5.com/atvjl/hiaw/#...

Read how dimensions of spatial coordination influence collective intelligence and group performance in former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen's paper "Measuring Implicit Spatial Coordination in Teams" presented at the ACM (@acm.org) 2025 Collective Intelligence Conference! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Listen to Erin Bugbee at CogSci 2025 discuss how people set and adjust thresholds and whether this affects search behavior and learning over time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3k... #CogSci2025 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Our paper, Training Users Against Human and GPT-4 Generated Social Engineering Attacks, led by Tai Malloy has won the best paper award at the 7TH International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust. Congratulations to Tai, Maria, Fei, and Coty! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In a new paper in "Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans," led by Yinuo Du, we explore how autonomous teammates’ abilities/competencies impact team outcomes using the Team Defense Game, a platform for investigating teaming in cyber defense scenarios. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The DDMLab will be well represented at the Cognitive Science Society's (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) annual conference CogSci 2025! Erin Bugbee & Roderick Seow will present a poster & full paper, and Ty Malloy will present a poster & abstract. cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/ #CogSci2025

DDMLab members and collaborators, led by Yinuo Du, have had their paper "Experimental Evaluation of Cognitive Agents for Collaboration in Human-Autonomy Cyber Defense Teams" accepted in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Congratulations! www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds...

Anu Aggarwal has had her paper "Cognitive Biases in Cyber Attacker Decision-Making: Translating Behavioral Insights into Cybersecurity" accepted at the 2025 Active Defense & Deception / IEEE EuroS&P Workshop! This workshop promotes proactive engagement with attackers during cyber attacks. adnd.work

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas.org), the world’s largest general scientific society! The distinction is a lifetime honor achievement within the organization. www.cmu.edu/news/stories... #CMU #AAAS

For Women's History Month Carnegie Mellon University is featuring the work of women across the STEM fields including DDMLab Director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social)! Read how these woman promote mentorship, outreach, and career success at CMU! www.cmu.edu/news/stories... #WomansHistoryMonth #CMU

DDMLab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence!

Next week lab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald will be presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Erin will be presenting a poster and Chase will be giving a short presentation. Congratulations both! aaai.org/conference/a...

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at AAAI Bridge Program's Collaborative AI and Modeling of Human meeting in Philadelphia, February 25th. CAIHu aims to bring together human-AI modeling researchers to exchange theories, ideas, and methods. sites.google.com/view/caihu25...

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) was in action today at an executive education workshop hosted by CMU's CyLab. Learn more about CyLab's workshops here: www.cylab.cmu.edu/education/ex...

A new paper, led by Yinuo Du has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Social Computing! They design adversarial agents that learn. Look for it soon! Du, Prebot, Malloy, Fang, & Gonzalez. A Cyber-War Between Bots: Human-Like Attackers are More Challenging for Defenders than Deterministic Attackers.

In this Management Science paper, we collaborate with friends from INSEAD Singapore to explore organizational learning at the individual and group level using a combination of experimental data and computational modeling. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.... @cotyg.bsky.social #ManagementScience

DDMLab member Roderick Seow will be presenting a poster at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in NYC! His work investigates the role of theory-of-mind in Human-AI coordination. Congratulations! www.psychonomic.org/page/2024ann...

The DDMLab (@ddmlab.bsky.social) will be well represented at this year's SJDM (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) Annual Meeting in NYC. Chase McDonald and Roderick Seow will be presenting posters, and Erin Bugbee will be giving an oral presentation. Congratulations all!