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Divya Ramesh awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship
Given to high-achieving women from Asian countries, the award recognizes Ramesh’s academic excellence and will support her continued research on algorithmic accountability for socially responsible AI.Michigan News: November 30, 2023
AI in society: Perspectives from the field
Experts working in artificial intelligence discuss the recent turning point in AI and what it means for the future. This story and its accompanying videos feature comments from CSE faculty Nikola Banovic, Joyce Chai, Maggie Makar, Rada Mihalcea, and Michael Wellman.Nikola Banovic receives NSF CAREER Award to advance explainable AI
Prof. Banovic aims to use human-AI interaction to explain and justify AI decisions to end users.7th Summer School on Computational Interaction brings together human-computer interaction scholars from around the world
The University of Michigan hosted the seventh annual installment of the summer school, supporting the next generation of HCI researchers through applied skills training and lectures from thought leaders.New York Times: April 28, 2023
Your Next Fitness Coach Could Be a Robot
Professor Nikola Banovic is quoted on how AI-based fitness programs fail to replicate the social interactions that make training effective.Seven papers by CSE researchers presented at CHI 2023
30 University of Michigan researchers authored and co-authored papers spanning surveillance, virtual reality, algorithmic stigma, assistive technology, and sensing systems.Explore CS Research year-long effort concludes with poster session
Designed to engage students in research, this year’s program has included workshops, panel sessions, and – of course – research!Jane Im earns 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship
PhD candidate Jane Im hopes to use the fellowship to advance research into how social media companies can better implement usable privacy controls.Michigan Daily: April 11, 2023
UMich Perspectives: How are we dealing with AI?
In this article, Prof. Nikola Banovic speaks with The Daily on how people connect with computers, and how they use computers to connect with each other.Divya Ramesh chosen for Quad Fellowship in interdisciplinary studies in STEM
Ramesh is one of three students from U-M in the inaugural cohort of fellows from the United States, Japan, India, and Australia.Jane Im awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship
The scholarship will support her work on creating safer social computing systems grounded in users’ consent.New computational framework to understand aggressive cancer cell behavior
Cancer cell biologists have teamed up with computational scientists and experts in artificial intelligence to focus the power of these fields on understanding and overcoming heterogeneity in cancer.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: September 14, 2020
Study: Pa. benefits screening tool may be telling potential applicants they don’t qualify
A study by two University of Michigan researchers found errors in a Pennsylvania public benefits screening tool that could have wrongly told people they were not eligible for benefits, when in fact they were.How predictive modeling could help us reopen more safely
Graphical online simulation could spur more targeted COVID-19 protection measures.
Computer scientists employ AI to help address COVID-19 challenges
Five multidisciplinary research teams are working on projects to assist with the coronavirus outbreak and to help find solutions to pressing problems.
Michigan News: February 11, 2020
‘Alexa, let’s chat!’: U-M among 10 student teams worldwide advancing conversational AI
The U-M Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge team have made it to the semi-finals.Michigan team competes in Amazon challenge to make AI more engaging
The team of twelve students is one of ten worldwide working to give Amazon’s Alexa more human-like conversational skills.