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Huang Named to Prestigious List of 35 Innovators Under 35
UMD’s Furong Huang was recognized as a visionary for her work in making AI more trustworthy, and developing models that can perform tasks safely and efficiently in unseen environments without human oversight.
Creeped Out by Online Ads? A UMD Researcher Is Studying How Companies Target You
UMD’s Michelle Mazurek says her project aims to create tools for greater transparency when it comes to targeted online advertising.
Twitter Whistleblower Unlikely to Spur Congressional Action
GW’s Rebekah Tromble weighs in on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing with a former Twitter security chief turned whistleblower who revealed data security issues at the social media company.
Driven to Make an Impact
UMD’s Kate Atchison was presented with the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Staff Award for her exemplary work supporting national diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in computing.
App Developed by a Saint Louis University Researcher Helps Stop Human Trafficking
GW’s Robert Pless is part of a team that developed TraffickCam, an app that empowers people to anonymously photograph hotel rooms and upload data to a national law enforcement database to combat sex trafficking.
UMD Machine Learning Experts Presenting Multiple Papers and Workshops at ICML 2022
UMD’s Hal Daumé III, Tom Goldstein and Soheil Feizi are among a mix of UMD faculty, postdocs and students presenting 18 papers and featured in 18 workshops at the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning in Baltimore.
CLIP Lab Presents a Plethora of Papers and Workshops on Human-Centered NLP
UMD’s Marine Carpuat, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé presented papers at a conference focused on human-centered natural language processing.
Use of Twitter Helped Taliban Regain Control in Afghanistan, Researchers Find
UMD’s Cody Buntain is part of a team of researchers who found that Twitter was a strategic tool for Taliban operations in overthrowing the Afghanistan leadership during the country’s civil war.
Summer Boot Camp Seeks to Kickstart New Research on ‘Trustworthy’ Artificial Intelligence
GW’s David Broniatowski, Erica Gralla, Robert Pless, Ekundayo Shittu, and Zoe Szajnfarber host a summer boot camp for doctoral students studying trustworthy AI.
GW Team Celebrates First Flight at Design, Build, Fly Competition
GW’s Peng Wei served as the faculty adviser for a team of students who developed an unmanned aircraft designed to deliver vaccine syringes to areas in need.
Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
UMD’s Jordan Boyd-Graber is developing artificial intelligence that can beat an online version of the board game Diplomacy. It's part of a DARPA-funded project to give artificial intelligence systems enough savvy to help defend against online scammers.
Researchers Work to Make Artificial Intelligence Genuinely Fair
UMD’s Marine Carpuat is part of a $1.6 million project funded by Amazon and the National Science Foundation to make college admissions more fair through the us of AI.
Researchers Find New Way to Amplify Trustworthy News Content on Social Media Without Shielding Bias
UMD’s Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia was part of a research team that developed a way to ensure social media users are exposed to more reliable news sources.
Social Data Science Major to Debut
Katie Shilton is the co-director of a new social data science major UMD that will equip graduates with the skills needed to appropriately collect, analyze and interpret data about people—an increasingly popular field due, at least in part, to social media.
Outsmarting the Bots When it Comes to News on Social Media
UMD’s Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia outlines how to outsmart bots on social media platforms.
Misinformation on Facebook Got Six Times More Clicks Than Factual News During the 2020 Election, Study Says
GW’s Rebekah Tromble tells The Washington Post that a study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election adds to the growing evidence that misinformation is still prevalent on the app, despite mitigation efforts.
As New Director, Mazurek Expands on MC2’s Momentum
UMD’s Michelle Mazurek leads the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, a multidisciplinary research and education powerhouse focused on cryptography, network security, programming-languages security, blockchains and cryptocurrencies, machine learning security and privacy, and human-centered security.
Mazurek Part of Award-Winning Team Studying the Digital Safety of Sex Workers
UMD’s Michelle Mazurek won a Distinguished Paper Award for her research examining how sex workers conceptualize and manage their digital safety.
GW Students Mobilize to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
GW’s Lorien Abroms is the academic sponsor of a volunteer group that aims to spread evidence-based public health updates using social media channels.
Dabaghchian Awarded $300K for Internet-of-Things Research
Morgan State’s Monireh Dabaghchian has received funding from NSF to support her work to address the increasing demand for wireless spectrum bandwidth introduced by the quickly growing number of internet-connected devices.