Work

2025

• Published and presented How Dynamic vs. Static Presentation Shapes User Perception and Emotional Connection to Text-Based AI at ACM’s International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Cagliari, Italy

  Bhat M. 2025. Maalvika Bhat. 2025. How Dynamic vs. Static Presentation Shapes User Perception and Emotional Connection to Text-Based AI. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 846–860. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712131

• Published and presented Designing AI Interfaces for Transparent Decision-Making and Ethical Reflection at ACM’s International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Cagliari, Italy

  Bhat M. 2025. Designing AI Interfaces for Transparent Decision-Making and Ethical Reflection. In Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '25 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 211–214. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708557.3716150

2024

• Published and presented Designing Interactive Explainable AI Tools for Algorithmic Literacy and Transparency at ACM’s Designing Interactive Systems Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark

  Bhat M. & Long, D. 2024. Designing Interactive Explainable AI Tools for Algorithmic Literacy and Transparency. In Proceedngs of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 939–957. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660722

• Published and presented Creative Explainable AI Tools to Understand Algorithmic Decision-Making at ACM’s 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition in Chicago, Illinois

  Bhat M. 2024. Creative Explainable AI Tools to Understand Algorithmic Decision-Making. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3635636.3664622

• Presented Enhancing AI Understanding & Algorithmic Decision-Making at The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Conference at Yale University

2023

• Invited to be a panelist on Online Consumer Behavior at Kellogg School of Management

• Presented Understanding Clickbait in Multiplatform Science Dissemination at ICA2023 in Toronto, Ontario

• Presented Science in the Clickbait Era at ICSSI2023 in Chicago, Illinois

2021

• Interned at NASA JPL

2020

• Presented on Climate Data Governance at PyCon2020

• Presented on Environmental Justice Data at JupyterCon2020

• Author of Bio-Lab’s Toxic Record Presages Chlorine-Fueled Fire Following Hurricane Laura

• Co-author of More Permission to Pollute: The Decline of EPA Enforcement and Industry Compliance during COVID

• Invited to be a panelist on Science in the Age of Data at JupyterCon2020

• Invited to present on Project-Based Engineering at Duke University’s Virtues and Vocations (Canceled due to COVID-19)