Visiting Scholar, Stanford University; Director, Center for Brain, AI, and Child; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Denver; Researcher who focuses on the emotional and social dimensions of human-AI interactions and impacts of generative AI on child development; Advisory Board Member, Bezos Family Foundation; Co-Author, "I Am Here for You": How Relational Conversational AI Appeals to Adolescents, Especially Those Who are Socially and Emotionally Vulnerable (2025, arXiv) and "Understanding the Neural Mechanics of Empathy Toward Robots to Shape Future Applications" (2023, Frontiers in Neurorobotics)