Meera Ray is a Computer Science and Engineering PhD student at Penn State. She is advised by CBDR co-director Dr. Christopher Dancy and has been working in the CBDR space since 2025. Meera graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2023 with a B.S. in Statistics and Machine learning. Since then, she has researched the use of neuro-symbolic AI to represent sociocultural knowledge within models of human thinking.