Cynthia Breazeal

Full Professor, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joined

July 2019

Names

Cynthia Breazeal

Emails

****@media.mit.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2001 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rodney Brooks

1993 – 2000

Expertise

personified AI agents

2010 – 2024

social robotics

1998 – 2024

Publications

Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC) Dataset: Benchmarking Foundational Models’ Social Reasoning
Dong Won Lee, Yubin Kim, Sooyeon Jeong, Denison Guvenoz, Parker Malachowsky, Louis-Philippe Morency, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Tiered Agentic Oversight: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for Healthcare Safety
Yubin Kim, Hyewon Jeong, Chanwoo Park, Eugene W Park, Haipeng Zhang, Xin Liu, Hyeonhoon Lee, Daniel McDuff, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Cynthia Breazeal, Samir Tulebaev, Hae Won Park
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
InvThink: Towards AI Safety via Inverse Reasoning
Yubin Kim, Taehan Kim, Eugene W Park, Chunjong Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Daniel McDuff, Hae Won Park
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Teacher Perspectives and Experiences after Deployment of AI Literacy Curriculum in Middle-school Classrooms
Prerna Ravi, Annalisa Broski, Glenda Stump, Harold Abelson, Cynthia Breazeal, Eric Klopfer
- 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation 2023
- Readers: Everyone
"Data comes from the real world": A Constructionist Approach to Mainstreaming K12 Data Science Education
Prerna Ravi, Robert Parks, John Masla, Harold Abelson, Cynthia Breazeal
- Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1
- Readers: Everyone
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators
Safinah Ali, Prerna Ravi, Katherine Moore, Harold Abelson, Cynthia Breazeal
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Constructing dreams using Generative AI
Safinah Ali, Prerna Ravi, Randi Williams, Daniella DiPaola, Cynthia Breazeal
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
- Readers: Everyone
"How can we learn and use AI at the same time?": Participatory Design of GenAI with High School Students
Isabella Pu, Prerna Ravi, Linh Dieu Dinh, Chelsea Joe, Caitlin Ogoe, Zixuan Li, Cynthia Breazeal, Anastasia K. Ostrowski
- IDC '25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children
- Readers: Everyone
Co-designing Large Language Model Tools for Project-Based Learning with K12 Educators
Prerna Ravi, John Masla, Gisella Kakoti, Grace C. Lin, Emma Anderson, Matt Taylor, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Cynthia Breazeal, Eric Klopfer, Harold Abelson
- CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Readers: Everyone
HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
Jocelyn J Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Maarten Sap
- EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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