Auburn University Team

The Biggio Center is hosting the inaugural AI Ethics Iron Bowl on April 22 with our partners at the Birmingham Urban Studio. This event will feature an ethics competition between Auburn University students and University of Alabama students.

Headshot photo of Eli Williams
Eli Williams
  • Hometown: Chelsea, Alabama
  • Major: Civil Engineering, Senior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Navy, Officer in the Civil Engineering Corp
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Hannah Montgomery
  • Hometown: Spanish Fort, Alabama
  • Major: Genetics and Neuroscience, Senior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Medical School
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Thomas Smith
  • Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
  • Major: Chemical Engineering, Freshman
  • Future Career Goal(s): Chemical Manufacturing
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Remi Buckley
  • Hometown: Florence and Huntsville, Alabama
  • Major: Civil Engineering, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Transportation Engineering
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Ethan Watson
  • Hometown: Frisco, Texas
  • Major: Electrical Engineering, Senior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Senior Nuclear Reactor Operator/Executive Engineer
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Blaise Koda
  • Hometown: Montgomery, Alabama
  • Major: Aerospace Engineer, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Work on propulsion systems for high velocity aircraft or rockets
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Trey Harbin
  • Hometown: Gadsden, Alabama
  • Major: Aviation Management, Freshman
  • Future Career Goal(s): Commercial Airline Pilot
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Tripp Hedden
  • Hometown: Hilton Head, South Carolina
  • Major: Finance, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Financial Analyst and Real Estate Investor
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Will Atkinson
  • Hometown: Houston, Texas
  • Major: BioMed, Freshman
  • Future Career Goal(s): Research
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Tee Parker
  • Hometown: Dallas, TX
  • Major: Business Management & Finance, Freshman
  • Future Career Goal(s): Commerical Real Estate, Entrepreneurship
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Auburn Coach

Dr. Lindsay Doukopoulos is Associate Director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Auburn University, where she leads the Biggio Teaching Unit and designs initiatives that advance teaching innovation through dialogue, experimentation, and emerging technologies. She is Co-PI on an NSF grant studying how active learning professional development supports student belonging and engagement and contributes to Auburn’s award-winning Teaching with AI initiative. A co-founder and co-host of the POD Network podcast Centering Centers, she studies and builds the professional learning ecosystems through which conversations about teaching become institutional change.

University of Alabama Team
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Jack Geiger
  • Hometown: Mount Airy, Maryland
  • Major: Criminal Justice & Criminology, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Federal Agent: FBI; Secret Service
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Henry Gillam
  • Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
  • Major: Creative Media and General Bsuiness, Sophomore
  • Future Career Goal(s): Entertainment Lawyer, Film Director, or Lawyer in the United Kingdom
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Sofia Hanson
  • Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
  • Major: Economics and Philoshophy, Sophomore
  • Future Career Goal(s): Law School
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Samuel Miller
  • Hometown: Eufaula, Alabama
  • Major: Environmental Policy (Through New College) and Legal History, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Environmental or Agricultural Law
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Ainslee Monroe
  • Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
  • Major: Physics and Philosophy, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Astrophysics Research
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Tomas Ospina Salamanca
  • Hometown: Bogota, Colombia
  • Major: Neuroscience and Economics, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Higher Academia/Professorships
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Elle Sims
  • Hometown: Gadsden, Alabama
  • Major: International Studies and Political Science, Sophomore
  • Future Career Goal(s): International Humanitarian Lawyer with the United Nations
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Addison Spears
  • Hometown: Fairhope, Alabama
  • Major: Management Information Systems, Sophomore
  • Future Career Goal(s): Win the AI ethics bowl, of course!
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Jackson Turner
  • Hometown: Holly Springs, North Carolina
  • Major: Computer Engineering, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): Research and Development in embedded systems or silicon technology
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Andrew Warren
  • Hometown: McKinney, Texas
  • Major: Economics, International Studies, and German, Junior
  • Future Career Goal(s): International/Administrative Law
Headshot photo of Dr. Katherine Chiou
University of Alabama Coach

Katherine Chiou is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Alabama and Co-Director of the AI Teaching Enhancement Initiative. Her work focuses on ethics education and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging technologies. She is Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Student Training in Responsible AI Knowledge and Ethics Research (STRAKER) project, which adapts Ethics Bowl pedagogy to help students develop ethical reasoning, research, and communication skills around AI and other complex technologies. Chiou is a longtime organizer of the Society for American Archaeology Ethics Bowl and has also worked with several professional archaeology organizations on ethics training and professional standards.