Mila-B21 Showcase #1

• Tamara Pressman (PhD, Economics)
  → The Language of Control: How People Express Threats When Institutions Fail
• Mansi Dhanania (MSc, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
  → Beyond Echo: Probing Curiosity, Ideation, and Novelty in AI
• Béatrice Metwalli (BA, Philosophy & French Literature) & Emma Kondrup (PhD, Computer Science)
  → “Chat, Are We Cooked?”: Relationality and Creativity in Generative AI
• Charlotte Crober (MA, Second Language Education)
  → Plurilingual Playground
• Tao Peng (MA, Educational Leadership)
  → Inner Diaspora: The Language of Control
• Sayre Boutte (BA, Philosophy & History)
  → Exploring the Ethical Implications and Artistic Limitations Presented by the Integration of AI in Creative Writing
• Monica Figueroa (MSc, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences)
  → Weaving Climate Knowings
• Patricia Sharleen (MSc, Electrical & Computer Engineering — Intelligent Systems, HCI)
  → Decoding Intent in Digital Systems
• Islamiyat Jamiu (MSc, Environmental Engineering)
  → Between Devotion and Justice
• Jenna Johnston (Master of Bioethics)
  → I Roll to Remember the Past
• Elena Savidge (Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth & Planetary Sciences)
  → Conversations with Complexity
• Rodrigo Migueles Ramirez (PhD, Quantitative Life Sciences)
  → ZyƏηX: Reinventing Collective Knowledge Generation
• Liam Pond (MA, Music Technology)
  → Gradus ad Musicae Peritiam
• Barry Yu (BSc)
  → Listening to Black Boxes: The Sound of AI

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