Peggy Wu is an award-winning scientist with over 20 years of experience combining cognitive psychology with AI in Human-Machine systems. She conducts research advancing Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Human-Computer Etiquette, Socially Intelligent Agents, Virtual/Mixed Reality, and AI explainability, transparency, and trust applied to military, commercial, and space domains. She is a speaker, author, judge for XPrize, and an associate producer of a documentary on the psychology of Space Exploration entitled, "The Longest Goodbye." Her work has been covered by media outlets including National Geographic and the BBC.