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The sections below provide a brief overview of my academic background, appointments, and selected publications. The downloadable PDF contains the complete curriculum vitae.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Duke University
Dissertation: A Computational Model of Expectation-Driven Mixed-Initiative Dialog Processing

M.S., Computer Science, Duke University

B.S., Computer Science and Philosophy, Virginia Tech

Academic Appointments

Associate Teaching Professor
Applied Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate Program
University of Colorado Boulder

Professor, Computer Science
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Chair, Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Research Engineer and Principal Investigator
RTI International

Research Areas

Natural Language Processing
Human-Computer Interaction
Dialogue Systems and Conversational Agents
Artificial Intelligence and Language Models
Computing Education

Selected Publications

2023
Guinn, C. (2023). Assessing Author Personality Types Using ChatGPT. 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, USA.
Paper
2020
Guinn, C. (2020). Limits of the Technology Singularity. Proceedings of the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33).
AAAI
Layman, L. M., Guinn, C. I., Song, Y. (2020). Toward Predicting Success and Failure in CS2: A Mixed-Method Analysis. Tampa, FL: ACMSE 2020: The Annual ACM Southeast Conference.
Conference
2019
Schulze S., Pence T., Irvine N., Guinn C. (2019). The Effects of Embodiment in Virtual Reality on Implicit Gender Bias. In: Chen J., Fragomeni G. (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction. HCII 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11574. Springer.
Paper
2018
Guinn, C. (2018). Runaway AI. In Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens. MacMillan Reference, USA.
Chapter
2014
Guinn, C., Singer, B., & Habash, A. (2014). A Comparison of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics in Spoken Language among Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease in Managed-Care Facilities. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and E-Health.
IEEE
Guinn, C., & Palmer, D. (2014). Human Perceptions of Altruism in Artificial Agents. IEEE Symposium Series on Intelligent Agents.
IEEE
Brown, R., & Guinn, C. (2014). Developing Game-Playing Agents That Adapt to User Strategies: A Case Study. IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents.
IEEE
2013
Dunn, E., & Guinn, C. (2013). Computational Methods for Determining the Similarity between Ancient Greek Manuscripts. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Paper
2012
Guinn, C., & Habash, A. (2012). Language Analysis of Speakers with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type. AAAI Fall Symposium.
AAAI
Komisin, M., & Guinn, C. (2012). Identifying Personality Types Using Document Classification Methods. International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS).
AAAI
Green, N., Guinn, C., & Smith, R. (2012). Assisting Social Conversation between Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Conversational Partners. Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (NAACL-HLT).
ACL

Selected Earlier Publications

2006
Link, M., Armsby, P., Hubal, R., & Guinn, C. (2006). Accessibility and Acceptance of Responsive Virtual Human Technology as a Survey Interviewer Training Tool. Computers in Human Behavior, 22(3), 412–426.
Science Direct
1999
Guinn, C. (1999). Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Dialog. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 14(5), 21–23.
IEEE
1998
Guinn, C. (1998). An Analysis of Initiative Selection in Collaborative Task-Oriented Discourse. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 8(3–4), 255–314.
Springer
1996
Guinn, C. (1996). Mechanisms for Mixed-Initiative Human-Computer Collaborative Discourse. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
ACL

Additional publications are listed in the full CV.

Grants and Sponsored Research

Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, industry partners, and university programs.

External funding across projects totals approximately $2.3M.

Mentorship

Chair or committee member for more than thirty student theses and projects, including undergraduate honors theses and master’s research projects.

Many of these projects have resulted in publications, conference presentations, and software systems developed in collaboration with students.