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Cynthia Breazeal

MIT, Cambridge, USA

22 papers at tracked venues · 15 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

AAAI ×9EMNLP ×5CHI ×3ACL ×2InterSpeech ×1NAACL ×1NeurIPS ×1

Frequent coauthors

Hae Won Park
×6
Hal Abelson
×5
John Masla
×4
Eric Klopfer
×4
Yubin Kim
×4
Prerna Ravi
×4
Daniella DiPaola
×3
Sharifa Alghowinem
×3
Christina A. Bosch
×3
Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett
×3
Sarah Wharton
×3
Lydia Guterman
×3

Papers

  1. Bridging Technology and Policy Design: A Robot Policy Design Toolkit to Support Collaborations in Policymaking
    CHI 2026 ·
    Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski
    ,
    Daniella DiPaola
    ,
    Rylie Spiegel
    ,
    Zandra H. Feland
    ,
    Zeynep Yalçin
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  2. Once Upon AI Time: Combining Narrative and Games for Early AI Literacy
    CHI 2026 ·
    Isabella Pu
    ,
    Megan Yi
    ,
    Aikaterini Bagiati
    ,
    Demetra Evangelou
    ,
    Sharifa Alghowinem
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  3. Rewarding the Rare: Uniqueness-Aware RL for Creative Problem Solving in LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhiyuan Hu
    ,
    Yucheng Wang
    ,
    Yufei He
    ,
    Jiaying Wu
    ,
    Yilun Zhao
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Anh Tuan Luu
    ,
    Hae Won Park
    ,
    Bryan Hooi
  4. Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Safinah Ali
    ,
    Ayat Abodayeh
    ,
    Vishesh Kumar
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  5. Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education Through a Focus on Implementation: Insights from a Middle School Computer Vision Module Beta-Test
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Christina A. Bosch
    ,
    Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett
    ,
    Samar Abu Hegly
    ,
    Sarah Wharton
    ,
    John Masla
    ,
    Lydia Guterman
    ,
    Calvin Macatantan
    ,
    Eric Klopfer
    ,
    Hal Abelson
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  6. Aligning Dialogue Agents with Global Feedback via Large Language Model Multimodal Reward Decomposition
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Don (Dong Won) Lee
    ,
    Hae Won Park
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Louis-Philippe Morency
  7. BehaviorSFT: Behavioral Token Conditioning for Health Agents Across the Proactivity Spectrum
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yubin Kim
    ,
    Zhiyuan Hu
    ,
    Hyewon Jeong
    ,
    Eugene Park
    ,
    Shuyue Stella Li
    ,
    Chanwoo Park
    ,
    Shiyun Xiong
    ,
    Mingyu Lu
    ,
    Hyeonhoon Lee
    ,
    Xin Liu
    ,
    Daniel McDuff
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Samir Tulebaev
    ,
    Hae Won Park
  8. Co-designing Large Language Model Tools for Project-Based Learning with K12 Educators
    CHI 2025 ·
    Prerna Ravi
    ,
    John Masla
    ,
    Gisella Kakoti
    ,
    Grace C. Lin
    ,
    Emma Anderson
    ,
    Matt Taylor
    ,
    Anastasia K. Ostrowski
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Eric Klopfer
    ,
    Hal Abelson
  9. Designing Characters with AI: An Art & AI Learning Activity
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Safinah Arshad Ali
    ,
    Sara Jakubowicz
    ,
    Ayat Abodayeh
    ,
    Amaan Zubairi
    ,
    Dalal Aldossary
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  10. Model AI Assignments 2025
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Todd W. Neller
    ,
    Rasika Bhalerao
    ,
    Eun Kyung Ko
    ,
    Vishodana Thamotharan
    ,
    Lisa Zhang
    ,
    Sonya Allin
    ,
    Mahdi Haghifam
    ,
    Michael Pawliuk
    ,
    Rutwa Engineer
    ,
    Florian Shkurti
    ,
    Cunyan Ma
    ,
    Daniella DiPaola
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Loreto Alonzi
    ,
    Brian Wright
    ,
    Ali Rivera
    ,
    Kristin Fasiang
    ,
    Duri Long
    ,
    Shruthi Chockkalingam
    ,
    Giulia Toti
    ,
    Evan Shieh
    ,
    Princewill Okoroafor
    ,
    Thema Monroe-White
    ,
    Mustafa Haiderbhai
    ,
    Carolyn Quinlan
    ,
    Ashwin R. Bharadwaj
    ,
    Anio Zhang
    ,
    Rajagopal Venkatesaramani
    ,
    Sarah Wharton
    ,
    John Masla
    ,
    Lydia Guterman
    ,
    Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett
    ,
    Christina A. Bosch
    ,
    Samar Abu Hegley
    ,
    Calvin Macatantan
    ,
    Eric Klopfer
    ,
    Hal Abelson
    ,
    Shira Wein
    ,
    Mercy Wairimu Gachoka
    ,
    Li-Hsin Chang
    ,
    Maryam Mirzaei
    ,
    Mohammad Mahdi Ajallooeian
  11. Supporting AI Literacy Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use
    AAAI 2025 ·
    John Masla
    ,
    Christina A. Bosch
    ,
    Prerna Ravi
    ,
    Lydia Guterman
    ,
    Sarah Wharton
    ,
    Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett
    ,
    Samar Abu Hegly
    ,
    Calvin Macatantan
    ,
    Eric Klopfer
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Hal Abelson
  12. The Indoor-Training Effect: Unexpected Gains from Distribution Shifts in the Transition Function
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Serena Bono
    ,
    Spandan Madan
    ,
    Ishaan Grover
    ,
    Mao Yasueda
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Hanspeter Pfister
    ,
    Gabriel Kreiman
  13. VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Yubin Kim
    ,
    Taehan Kim
    ,
    Wonjune Kang
    ,
    Eugene Park
    ,
    Joonsik Yoon
    ,
    Dongjae Lee
    ,
    Xin Liu
    ,
    Daniel McDuff
    ,
    Hyeonhoon Lee
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Hae Won Park
  14. Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jocelyn J. Shen
    ,
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Maarten Sap
    ,
    Hae-Won Park
  15. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Safinah Arshad Ali
    ,
    Prerna Ravi
    ,
    Katherine S. Moore
    ,
    Hal Abelson
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  16. Constructing Dreams Using Generative AI
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Safinah Arshad Ali
    ,
    Prerna Ravi
    ,
    Randi Williams
    ,
    Daniella DiPaola
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  17. Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Randi Williams
    ,
    Sharifa Alghowinem
    , Cynthia Breazeal
  18. EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jocelyn Shen
    ,
    Yubin Kim
    ,
    Mohit Hulse
    ,
    Wazeer Zulfikar
    ,
    Sharifa Alghowinem
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Hae Won Park
  19. Global Reward to Local Rewards: Multimodal-Guided Decomposition for Improving Dialogue Agents
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Dong Won Lee
    ,
    Hae Park
    ,
    Yoon Kim
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Louis-Philippe Morency
  20. HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jocelyn Shen
    ,
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Hae Park
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Maarten Sap
  21. MDAgents: An Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Medical Decision-Making
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yubin Kim
    ,
    Chanwoo Park
    ,
    Hyewon Jeong
    ,
    Yik Siu Chan
    ,
    Xuhai Xu
    ,
    Daniel McDuff
    ,
    Hyeonhoon Lee
    ,
    Marzyeh Ghassemi
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Hae Won Park
  22. PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Hang Jiang
    ,
    Xiajie Zhang
    ,
    Xubo Cao
    , Cynthia Breazeal,
    Deb Roy
    ,
    Jad Kabbara