#MarylandDay visitors were interested in the novel research & scholarship underway in Huaishu Peng's Small Artifacts Lab. Innovative projects include prototyping new touchscreens for the visually impaired & designing AI-driven robots that can traverse a dancer's body. #FearlesslyUMD

It was very nice to be able to meet and interact with the US House’s Bipartisan Task force in AI. Hope the conversation can lead to more reliable and trustworthy applications of AI

Thrilled to be invited to to meet and engage with the U.S. House’s Bipartisan Task Force on AI! Excited to dive into critical conversations about the future of artificial intelligence.

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UMD researchers are building trust in AI for healthcare!

Their work combining human and computerized abilities to spot errors can help tackle potential dangerous sources of healthcare errors. today.umd.edu/reliable-er-tr…

What are the odds of having two amazing HCI researchers on the same day? Thanks to Pedro Lopes and Seongkook Heo for the fantastic back-to-back talks and for dropping by our labs! We were all awed by the day. Kudos to Jun Jun Nishida for organizing it all!

We’ve had a great time at #AERA24 talking about Trustworthy AI in education and the lives of youth. Keshiyena Pieters TRAILS

I really enjoyed giving the distinguished lecture at CASA - Cluster of Excellence for Cyber Security and meeting everyone at MPI Security and Privacy at RUB. I am especially grateful to my host Yixin Zou for organizing. After working with so many amazing folks at RUB, it was amazing to finally visit in person.

.Univ. of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (@umiacs) is expanding its data center by 50% to support the institute's growing research portfolio in areas like machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision. Learn more: go.umd.edu/3TSibIQ

✨ Can we detect style in the generated images? Our recent work takes a step towards understanding this question. We train a style-focused vision feature extractor built on top of CLIP, which we call a Contrastive Style Descriptior (CSD).

paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.01292

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Our researchers focus on improving AI models that prioritize human well-being. Univ. of Maryland's Marine Carpuat and Ge Gao coauthored a study evaluating the effectiveness of English-to-Chinese machine translation systems used in emergency rooms. #DoGoodUMD trails.umd.edu/news/evaluatin…

TRAILS director Hal Daumé III (pictured center left) explained why the development of AI models should be focused on the augmentation of human work—opposed to automation—at AAAS's annual conference.

Read more Computing Community Consortium (CCC)'s blog: cccblog.org/2024/03/26/ccc…

Assistant Professor Virginia Byrne (Virginia Byrne) and PhD student Keshiyena Pieters (@KeshiyenaP) of MorganStateHESA are presenting their research on trustworthiness of AI and higher education AERA's annual meeting #AERA24 in Philadelphia on April 11.

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Check out Data Disquiet, which examines how policymakers responded to LLM Chatbots, identifying why people were so upset about how these chatbots obtained data and the governance gaps. I also make suggestions as to a more transparent approach. cigionline.org/publications/d…

Interested in how XAI intersects with fairness especially in the case of proxies (eg zip, university) for protested attributes (race, gender)? Check out Connor Baumler, Navita Goyal, and Tin Nguyen’s IUI paper presented today!

.TRAILS faculty member Naja Mack & undergrad researchers are presenting “Breaking Stereotypes & Feeding the STEM Pipeline” @ #SIGCSE Technical Symposium on 3/22.

Details: go.umd.edu/SIGCSE

Read paper here: go.umd.edu/3ThL6pA

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Discuss the past, present and future of AI on April 5 Morgan State University's first annual National Symposium on Equitable AI. Learn more and register: morgan.edu/ceamls/equitab…

I enjoyed participating at the Brookings Governance 's panel discussion about the risks posed by Generative AI and ways to mitigate them.

You can watch its recording here:
youtube.com/watch?v=l2VvCB…

Faculty associated with TRAILS were awarded 8 grants, totaling over $1.5m, for projects that will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship used for AI design, development & governance. Read more on GW Today: go.gwu.edu/708

Soheil Feizi (Soheil Feizi)—an associate professor UMD Department of Computer Science and researcher TRAILS—is part of a panel Brookings Governance on the dangers of AI and disinformation during elections. It's not too late to register to attend virtually or in-person.