Theodora Chaspari

Theodora Chaspari is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, serving as Co-Associate Chair for Graduate Education. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. She holds a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (2010) from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and M.S./Ph.D. (2012/2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Her research focuses on affective computing, human-centered machine learning, and health analytics, with notable work in AI ethics, multimodal signal processing, and team dynamics analysis. Her funded projects involve federal agencies (NSF, NIH, NASA) and private entities like General Motors.

Key awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2021) and TAMU Montague Teaching Award (2021). She serves as Editor for Elsevier’s Computer Speech & Language and Guest Editor for IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing.

Her work addresses challenges in:

• Unobtrusive mental health monitoring
• AI-driven veteran interview training
• Team performance assessment in space and surgical environments
• Demographic bias mitigation in ML models

Current initiatives include developing privacy-preserving multimodal systems and AI ethics curricula.