Researchers from the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) participated in the 2025 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series, held November 6–8 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA.

Dr. Megan A. Witherow, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor at VMASC, presented in the symposium “AI for Social Good: Emerging Methods, Measures, Data, and Ethics.” Her paper, “Emerging Uses of AI-Generated Images for Equitable and Transparent Simulations,” explored how generative AI imagery can promote empathy, equity, and transparency in modeling and simulation. This paper was co-authored with Drs. Philippe Giabbanelli (VMASC) and Kourosh Shoele (Florida State University).

Dr. Philippe Giabbanelli, Research Professor at VMASC, presented in the symposium “Safe, Ethical, Certified, Uncertainty-Aware, Robust, and Explainable AI for Health.” His paper, “Towards Personalized Explanations for Health Simulations: A Mixed-Methods Framework for Stakeholder-Centric Summarization,” introduced a framework that tailors large-language-model summaries of health simulations to different stakeholder needs. This paper was co-authored with Dr. Ameeta Agrawal from Portland State University.

The AAAI Fall Symposium Series is a prestigious annual forum organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), bringing together researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss emerging topics in artificial intelligence.