Dr. Camille Dempsey is the Director of the PennWest Center for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies and is an educator, educational technologist, scholar, and cultural/media theorist. She is also a Professor of Educational Technology at PennWest University, teaching Edinboro, Clarion, and CalU graduate and undergraduate students. 

      Recently, Camille was selected as a Faculty Research Fellow in AI for the International Society for Technology in Education and also served as faculty in that program. She received a “20 to Watch” award from the International Society for Technology in Education and was a recipient of the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology Association’s “Educational Technology Impact Award,” for her article, The spirit of the times: Virtuality culture and technology-mediated human presence. Camille presents, publishes, and consults widely related to her research focused on founding the Theory of Virtuality Culture, as well as educational technology. Her work focuses on the ways society is connecting, exploring, and communicating through contemporary technologies, as well as how they restructure human consciousness and mediate human presence and connection. Most recently, Camille has been investigating intersections between generative AI, education, and contemporary virtuality culture.