Afternoon Plenary 2026

  • FengFeng Ke, PhD

    Dr. Fengfeng Ke is Clark Leadership Chair Professor in the College of Education at University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on the design and study of technology-driven personalized and enactive learning systems, with an emphasis on mathematics, science, and neurodiversity education. She is particularly interested in exploring the dynamics of human-AI collaboration in…

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  • Derek Paley, PhD

    Derek A. Paley is the Willis H. Young Jr. Professor of Aerospace Engineering Education in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. He is the founding director of the UMD Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory and the UMD Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle Team. Paley is an Affiliate Professor…

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  • Hal Daumé, PhD

    Hal Daumé III is Director of AIM, the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland, and the Volpi-Cupal Endowed Professor of Computer Science and Language Science at the University of Maryland. He also leads TRAILS, an NSF- and NIST-funded institute focused on trustworthy AI. His research develops natural language processing systems that interact naturally with people while…

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  • Chris Stubbs, PhD

    Christopher Stubbs is the Director of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Center for Artificial Intelligence and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from New York University.  His research focuses on developing new computational technologies to investigate the hierarchical biomechanical structure of…

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