Education History

  • MA Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
  • PHD Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Work Experience

CEO, Cognitive Insights for Artificial Intelligence

Publications

INDUSTRY RESEARCH
Garibay, O., Winslow, B., Andolina, S., Antona, M., Bodenschatz, A., Coursaris, C., Falco, G., Fiore, S. Garibay, I., Grieman, K., Havens, J.C., Jirotka, M., Kacorri, H., Karwowski, W., Kider, J. Konstan, J., Koon, S., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Maifeld-Carucci, I., McGregor, S., Salvendy, G., Shneiderman, B., Stephanidis, C., Strobel, C., Ten Holter, C., & Xu, W. (2023). Six Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenges. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 39(3): 391-437. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2153320

López-González M. (2021) Applying Human Cognition to Assured Autonomy. In: Stephanidis C. et al. (eds) HCI International 2021 – Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13095. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_36.

López-González, M. (2020). Regaining Sight of Humanity on The Roadway towards Automation, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2020, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2020); DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.16.AVM-088.

López-González, M. (2019). Today Is To See and Know: An Argument and Proposal for Integrating Human Cognitive Intelligence into Autonomous Vehicle Perception, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Autonomous Vehicles and Machines, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2019). DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2019.15.AVM-054.

López-González, M. (2018). Theoretically Automated Conversations: Collaborative Artistic Creativity for Autonomous Machines, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2018). DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.14.HVEI-531.

López-González, M. (2018). Storyboard of Thoughts: Using Photography and Illustration to Visualize the Mind, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2018). DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.14.HVEI-540.

Lebowsky, F. & López-González, M. (2018). Colorful Insights Supporting the Modeling of Creative Processes Across Language, Music, and Emotion, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Color Imaging XXIII, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2018); DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.16.COLOR-364.

López-González, M. (2017). Manifesto for Empirical Revolution No. 2: the reseARch scienTIST paradigm to unraveling the mind behind musical improvisation. Diffrazioni 2016 Catalogue, (Conservatorio Cherubini, Florence, Italy).

López-González, M. (2017). Trading Conversations Between Science and Art: When Musical Improvisation Enters the Dialogue on Stage, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2017); DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.14.HVEI-156.

López-González, M. (2016). Minds in the Spotlight: Using Live Performance Art To Uncover Creative Thinking Processes, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, (IS&T, Springfield, VA, 2016); DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.16.HVEI-143.

López-González, M. (2015). Cognitive Psychology Meets Art: Exploring Creativity, Language, and Emotion Through Live Musical Improvisation in Film and Theatre. Proceedings of SPIE 9394, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX, 939403 (March 17, 2015); DOI: 10.1117/12.2083880.

BOOK CHAPTER
López-González, M. (forthcoming Sept 2022). Emotional Creativity. In Gesine Lenore Schiewer, Jeanette Altarriba, & Bee Chin Ng (eds.), Handbook on Language and Emotion: An International Handbook – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION ARTICLES
López-González, M. (February 2018). An Urgent Appeal for Ethical Changemaking – Taking equitable action now for a better today, Session 593 – The Shock of the New: Arts, Technology and Making Sense of the Future, (Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 2018).

López-González, M. (February 2018). A Scientist-Artist’s Address to Today’s Future, Op-Ed for Session 593 – The Shock of the New: Arts, Technology and Making Sense of the Future, (Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 2018).

López-González, M. (2017). For Female Leaders of Tomorrow: Cultivate an Interdisciplinary Mindset. Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum USA East, 2017 IEEE. IEEE; DOI: 10.1109/WIE.2017.8285606.

López-González, M. (2017). STEAM is hotter than STEM: The Why and What of My Teaching Paradigm in Higher Education. SciArt Magazine – Special Topics STEAM Education Issue, August 2017.

Honors and Awards

  • 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics global list for 2023, Women in AI Ethics (2022)
  • Outstanding Recent Graduate Award, Office of the President and Alumni Association of the Johns Hopkins University (2019)
  • One of Baltimore’s Top 10 BioHealth Startup CEOs, The Business of Biotechnology (2019)
  • A millennial leader of the BioHealth Capital Region (MD,DC,VA), BioHealth Innovation, Inc (2018)
  • A particularly imaginative polymath, Imagination Institute, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania (2016)