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Our Numbers – ELBICA Research Lab

Launched in the Summer of 2021 by PI Eliott, ELBICA research assistants engage in AI and MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) projects under ambiguity and abstract guidance, building experience in multi-layered systems, cognitive modeling, and adaptive reasoning.

2026:

• 10 students will join the ELBICA lab for summer research. Welcome, ELBICA team!
• Our paper, “Modeling the Winkum Game,” was accepted to HUSO 2026.
• Eliott served as a panelist:
  • InfoWare 2026 Congress: Open Discussion II, Theme: Society Evolution and Human-Machine Cohabitation.
  • Open Discussion III, Theme: Boredom Relevance for Creativity in the Digital Age.

2025:

• Eliott launched a new arm of the ELBICA lab: the Cognitive Robustness Research Studio.
• On the Cognitive Robustness Research Studio homepage, Eliott explains a new term she coined as part of designing the program’s methodology. The term is: Human-AI Cognitive Signature Spill, Fernanda Eliott, 2025.
• Our work received a best paper award: Situated Learners in a Sequential Decision-Making Setting. Kasimov, T. and Takei, S. and Lu, H. and Lee, M. and Eliott, F. The Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications INTELLI 2025.
• Shinon Takei and Timur Kasimov presented our work “Situated Learners in a Sequential Decision-Making Setting” at Intelli 2025 in Lisbon.
• Eliott presented her Keynote Speech, “Crossroads of AI, Philosophy, and Abstraction,” at HUSO 2025.
• Eliott served as a panelist for the Cognition, Intelligence, and AI panel at the Infosys 2025 Congress.

2024:

• 7 MAP students joined the ELBICA lab in the summer. Welcome, ELBICA team!
• PI Eliott presented our paper at the HAIS 2024 conf.: Networked Independent Reinforcement Learners Playing an Evolutionary Game. Xu, Z. and Chen, J. and Eliott, F. In: Quintián, H., et al. Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems. HAIS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14858. Springer, Cham.
• “Connotation and 3D Modeling from Limited, Raw Textual Descriptions”, International Journal On Advances in Life Sciences, v 16 n 3&4 2024.
• PI Eliott presented her poster “Can Insights from the MAS’ Coordination/Cooperation Dichotomy Enlighten Empathy Investigation?” at the International Society for Research on Emotion Conference (ISRE2024), Queen’s University Belfast, 2024.
• PI Eliott gave her Harris Fellow talk at Grinnell College, 2024.

2023 academic year:

1. 8 MAP students and 3 research assistants joined the ELBICA lab.
2. Awarded as a top paper. Chen, Ji. and Berman, E. and Noda, M. and Shermak, K. and Ye, Z. and Rothfusz, D. and Eliott, F. How do Abstraction and Emotions Travel Different Spaces? Proc. of The Tenth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO) 2024.
3. PI Eliott’s abstract “Can Insights from the MAS’ Coordination/Cooperation Dichotomy Enlighten Empathy Investigation?” was accepted at the 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE).
4. PI Eliott presented our “How do Abstraction and Emotions Travel Different Spaces?” paper at The tenth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO) 2024, Athens, Greece.
5. PI Eliott was invited to serve as a judge at the 2024 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals, spring 2024.

2022 academic year:

1. Summer: 7 MAP students and 1 research assistant joined the ELBICA lab.
2. PI Eliott was awarded the prestigious Harris Faculty fellowship, Grinnell College, and
3. Named a Scialog Fellow (Molecular Basis of Cognition), Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
4. Invited guest to the Open Discussion on AI-Challenges: Sentience and Consciousness at The Ninth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics, HUSO 2023, Barcelona, Spain.
5. Refereed Publication. Swaim, E. and Eliott, F. Complex Behavior Vs. Design – Interpreting AI: Reminders from Synthetic Psychology. HUSO 2023. 
6. 3 ELBICA students received MAP funding to attend the ISRE conference (Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion)
7. PI Eliott was selected for the CIC/NSF workshop on Funding the Future: Proposal Development for Computer Scientists and Grant Officers.

Launched a database of:

7. Images, descriptions, attributes, and 3D scenes.
8. References and key concepts of empathy and moral processes.

2021 academic year:

1. Summer: 5 MAP students joined the ELBICA lab.
2. Refereed Book chapter. He, M., Gao1, M., Gao1, Y., Eliott, F., Cascading Failures and the Robustness of Cooperation in a Unified Scale-Free Network Model. Procs. of Complex Networks, book title: International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Springer Verlag, 2021.
3. Refereed Publication. Yu, X., Morri, R. and Eliott, F. EDA, An Empathy-Driven Computational Architecture. Proceedings of the Workshop on Goal Reasoning, ACS 2021.
4. Abstract/Poster. Morri, R. and Eliott, F. Redesigning a Moral-Inspired Computational Architecture to Emphasize the Role of Empathy in Decision-Making. Summer school on Current and future applications of network and control sciences for Psychiatry, 2021.
5. PI Eliott was invited to the CRA (Computing Research Association) Career Mentoring Workshop (February 24-25, 2022, in Washington, DC).