Summary of Research
Maddie Juarez is an incoming first year PhD student at the University of Chicago. She has previously interned three times at Argonne National Laboratory in the leadership computing facility (ALCF) and center for transportation research (CTR). Her research interests include security and privacy and collaborative edge frameworks for smart city applications.
Publications
Maddie Juarez, Natali Barragan, Deborah Hall, Yasin Silva, George Thiruvathukal. ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships. The 2024 World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST). 10.1109/WFPST58552.2024.00008
Maddie Juarez, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Manuel Sandoval, Mujtaba Nazari, Deborah Hall,
George Thiruvathukal, Tamer Abuhmed, Yasin Silva, Mohammed Abuhamad. Analyzing Adversarial Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyberbullying Detection. The 2025 Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS).
Abha Rai, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Ali Tarokh, Shakila Fro, Farzana Farzam, Elisa Leyva Cea,
Alix Sanchez-Gomez, Maddie Juarez, George Thiruvathukal, Paula Tallman. AER for Stronger Communities:
A Culturally Responsive Intervention for Newcomers. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 2026.
Manuel Sandoval, Muhammad Arslan, Maddie Juarez, Satyaki Sikdar, Mohammed Abuhamad,
Daniel Moreira, Deborah L. Hall, Yasin N. Silva. Insta-CTSR: Cyberbullying, Topics, Severity and Roles for Instagram (Under Submission).
Satyaki Sikdar, Manuel Sandoval, Taylor Hales, Chloe Kilroy, Maddie Juarez, Tyler Rosario,
Juan J. Rosendo, Deborah L. Hall, Yasin N. Silva. Network Analysis of Cyberbullying Interactions on Instagram (Under Submission).
Juarez, M., Sandoval, M. Analyzing Adversarial Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyberbullying Detection. Loyola CS Seminar Presenter. Loyola University Chicago. December 2025.
Juarez, M., Abdukhamidov, E., Sandoval, M., Nazari, M., Hall, D., Thiruvathukal, G., Abuhmed, T., Silva, Y., & Abuhamad, M. Analyzing Adversarial Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyberbullying Detection. Oral presentation, Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). Pittsburgh, PA. October 2025.
Juarez, M., Barragan, N., Hall, D., Silva, Y., & Thiruvathukal, G. ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships. Oral presentation, World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST), Washington, DC. January 2024.
Presenter with collaborators D. Hall, Y. Silva, A. Batista, and N. Barragan at the Speak Up,
Stand Up, Save a Life Conference, Phoenix, AZ. Presentation title: Cyberbullying, Social Media,
and Mental Health. January 2024.
Abha Rai, Alix Sanchez Gomez, Elisa Levya Cea, Mary Held, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Shakila Fro,
George K. Thiruvathukal, Maddie Juarez, Farzana Farzam, Ali Tarokh, Paula Tallman. Centering Voices:
Culturally Responsive Support for Central and South Asian Newcomers using AI and Fitness Trackers. The 2026 Conference on Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) (Accepted).
Abha Rai, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Maddie Juarez, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kristen E. Ravi, Ali Tarokh,
Shakila Fro, Farzana Farzam, Paula Tallman, Danny Olweean. Development and Testing of an Intervention for Newly Arriving Communities. Oral Presentation. 23rd Annual Hawaii International Summit: Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma Conference 2026 (Accepted).
Awards
Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Loyola Distinguished Undergraduate Achievement Award
Loyola Distinguished Undergraduate Computing Research Award
Loyola Mulcahy Scholarship 2024-2025
Loyola Research Mentoring Fellow Mentee Summer 2025
SBP-BRiMS Conference Attendance Scholarship Oct 2024
2025 Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention
Loyola University Chicago Dean's List (4 years)