talks and publications

more to come :)

Publications

Pause, Reflect, and Redirect: An Approach to Empowering Youth to Be Safer Online by Helping Them Make Better Decisions

Social Sciences

Stakeholders from parents to policy-makers are concerned about youth online safety. Present solutions are frequently punitive and often lack opportunities for youth to make mistakes and try again in a safe environment. This paper proposes a new framework, based on trauma-informed child psychology models and research by computer scientists and human-centered design scholars, entitled Pause, Reflect, and Redirect (PRR). The PRR framework offers three levels of intervention ranging from casual engagement to coached engagement with crisis response. To further develop and validate PRR as a framework, PRR was implemented within a web-filtering software that was installed in a public middle school comprising grades 6 to 8 (i.e., ages 11–14) in an urban charter district. Preliminary results from the deployment of the software suggest that it may help youth make better choices with respect to their online behaviors.

Spacecraft Radio Signal Polarization Calibration

Frontiers

The only reliable method to remotely obtain magnetic field information across large swaths of interplanetary/interstellar plasma is with the technique of Faraday rotation of polarized radio signals. Focusing on the high frequency regime of magnetized plasmas, this paper discusses the most difficult first step toward obtaining these measurements. Transitioning from raw voltage samples to plane of polarization measurements requires both simulated signal tests and qualitative inspections of the behavior of the resulting measurements. To demonstrate how this calibration approach works, we show examples collected from the STEREO A and B spacecraft and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. While astronomical radio sources have their own challenges to data processing, we show that spacecraft data have their own unique characteristics that can benefit and hinder the data processing.

talks/conferences

Co-author on Faraday Rotations and Polarizion Calibration talk (GBO)

Green Bank Observatory 2025

This is in preparation for the Multiview Observatory for Solar Terrestrial Science (MOST) mission, a potential flagship mission that will utilize the Faraday Effect Tracker of Coronal and Heliospheric Structures (FETCH) instrument. FETCH will use spacecraft to spacecraft FR observations meaning that it must have a reference FR data set to serve as the basis for a feasibility study to determine the efficacy of these future measurements. Focusing on categorizing Faraday Rotation data, we discuss the method for classifying any given day of spacecraft data and whether it should be part of a calibration data set.

Co-author on Faraday Rotations and Polarizion Calibration talk (AGU)

AGU Fall Talk 2024

Largest gathering of Earth and space scientists and convenes more than 25,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. I am also working with Dr. Elizabeth Jensen and Dr. Jason Kooi on a calibration paper that will be published on Frontiers. See above.

Kids Online Safety. The Internet on Training Wheels

Cooper MS

Better methods than blocking content for teens online. How to build trust with your kids online? Is blocking the best way to deal with inappropriate sites? Where does education come in? This talk entailed the birth of safekids.ai, the lesson we learned, and the fundamental takeaways that parents need to take in this newly found digital age.

Interviews

Florida Social Media Ban

WIOD Miami

Will restricting social media for teens really work? Florida enacted a bill that banned social media for teens under the age of 14. We discussed the negative consequences that this ban entails. What is the difference in delaying kids' access when, in a couple of years, they will be using it anyway? Why not have social media companies implement education that allows students to navigate social media more effectively, so that when everything is open, they understand what content is suitable for them and what is not?

Florida Social Media Ban

ABC

Will restricting social media for teens really work? Florida enacted a bill that banned social media for teens under the age of 14. We discussed the negative consequences that this ban entails. What is the difference in delaying kids' access when, in a couple of years, they will be using it anyway? Why not have social media companies implement education that allows students to navigate social media more effectively, so that when everything is open, they understand what content is suitable for them and what is not?