Emily McKinley Received the Best Speaker Award at the 2026 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation

Congratulations to CHATR Lab PhD candidate Emily McKinley, who received the Best Speaker Award for her parallel talk, "Human?: Validating Large Language Models as Proxies for Human Participants in Persuasive Communication Research," at the 2026 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI 2026). The award recognizes the quality of both her innovative research and engaging presentation, highlighting her ongoing contributions to innovative communication research at the intersection of AI and human behavior.