Anind Dey and co-collaborators Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas,  and J. Andrew Bagnell recieved the 2024 AAAI Classic Paper Award, a 15-year impact award recognizing their paper “Maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning,” which was published in Proceedings of the 23rd...

Heather Whiteman was awarded $2,000 for the Global Innovation Fund Teaching Award. Her first award in 2022 led to case studies, examples, and student projects based in Latin America. This year’s award focuses on partnering with experts from South Korea and Australia to incorporate additional...

Jamie Snyder and Benjamin Buck (UW, Department of Psychology) were awarded $50,000 by the NIH through the Department of Psychology for their pilot program “User-centered design of a single-module digital mental health intervention for college students at risk for psychosis.”Alexis...

Miranda Belarde-Lewis gave a keynote at the Closing Colloquium for the Advancing Pathways for Longterm Collaborations at Dartmouth titled “Building Cultural Information Bridges.” Tessa Campbell was also invited to attend the colloquium. Miranda Belarde-Lewis was an...

Jaime Snyder, co-PI Julia Parrish, and Senior Personnel Clarita Lefthand Begay received a $900,000 ($485,605 to iSchool) NSF CISE Human Centered Computing Grant for the project “Grounded Visualization Design to Support Community-Engaged...

Aylin Caliskan was awarded a $1,043,249 grant from the NIST Information Technology Laboratory on Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards for her project “Human-AI Bias Interaction in Decision Making.” Lorcan Dempsey has been awarded the K&IM (Knowledge &...

Marika Cifor has been awarded the 2024 Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies with Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at The University of Sydney. The funding will support research and collaboration with Drs. Kane Race and Warwick Anderson...

Katie Davis book, Technology's Child, was officially published on Tuesday, March 7. Among the highlights: Technology's Child was chosen by The Next Big Idea Club as a March 2023 Must-Read Book. The book was reviewed this week in Seattle's Child. Katie was interviewed for the...

Stefania Druga Authored article “Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived — and It’s Here to Help You Make and Craft” was published (print and online) in the latest Make Magazine. Was quoted in the Teen Vogue article “ChatGPT and Plagiarism: Student Cheating Concerns...

Wanda Pratt  In collaboration with Gina Sequeira, Nicole Kahn, Keven Bocek, Taraneh Shafii, Peter Asante, Dimitri Christakis, Laura Richardson, had their paper “Pediatric Primary Care Providers’ Perspectives on Telehealth Platforms to Support Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse...

Marika Cifor and Co-Director, K.J. Rawson of Northeastern University, received a $349,759 National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Grant for the project, “Developing a Spanish-language Homosaurus: Using Multilanguage Linked Data to Enhance LGBTQ+ Resource...

Melanie Walsh: Is co-director with Matthew Wilkens and David Mimnoon on a new NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant ($349,987) based at Cornell to support BERT for Humanists, which makes recent advancements in artificial intelligence, like BERT and GPT-3, accessible to...

Jevin West was an invited panelist for the Council of State Governments annual conference. The audience included state representatives from around the U.S. and Canada. The topic of the panel was “Setting the Record Straight: Combatting Disinformation.”  Jevin West was an invited...

Chirag Shah has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest and most prestigious association of computing professionals. The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years...

Mike Teodorescu coauthored a US Patent and Trademark Office Economics Working Paper Series, "Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the USPTO," which informed this USPTO policy note on reducing gender disparities in patenting. Jevin West gave an invited...