Ananda Astrini Muhammad is a Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University's (ISU) Applied Linguistics and Technology program. She completed her Master's in TESL/Applied Linguistics as a Fulbright scholar. She was formerly the Assistant Coordinator of the Oral Communication English Placement Test at ISU. Currently, she is the Graduate Assistant for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Multicultural Student Success and STEM Scholars programs. Her primary research areas are L2 pragmatics, second language assessment, computer-assisted language learning, human-AI interaction, corpus linguistics, and teacher professional development. Outside of academia, she enjoys foraging, baking, and reading sci-fi/horror fiction on her Kindle.