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World Wildlife Fund partners with Discovery Analytics Center on automated system to help save forests , articleFor the first time, researchers at the Discovery Analytics Center will use an automated data analytics system to help identify suspicious timber trade records that relate to possible illegal activity.
Date: Nov 10, 2020 -
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Researchers examine impact of digital information on COVID-19 decisions and behavior , articleThe study, funded by a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant, will shed light on decision-making under uncertainty and how pandemic-related information plays a role.
Date: Oct 21, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech, Facebook team up to develop a new way for video editors to erase unwanted objects , articleThe method developed by Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, Ph.D. student Chen Gao, and their Facebook collaborators uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to achieve flow-edge guided video completion.
Date: Sep 28, 2020 -
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Students focus on COVID-19 impacts on sustainability, education, and society , articleStudents in the urban computing graduate certificate program gave their group presentations via Zoom at the end of semester 2020 Spring Retreat.
Date: Jun 16, 2020 -
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Projecting the outcomes of people’s lives with AI isn’t so simple , articlePublished by 112 co-authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the results suggest that sociologists and data scientists should use caution in predictive modeling, especially in the criminal justice system and social programs.
Date: Mar 30, 2020 -
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Video: Solutions for complex problems , articleEvery day, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students delve into data, experiment, and study research findings to address real-world challenges. In the latest installment on complex problems, hear how data is used to boost safety, improve efficiency, and promote equity.
Date: Feb 25, 2020 -
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Srijan Sengupta awarded NIH grant to study unstructured data that can improve patient safety , articleSengupta, assistant professor of statistics in the College of Science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, received a Research Project Grant to develop methods to analyze detailed information that spans multiple categories and can be more valuable in identifying an event than just checking off a category.
Date: Nov 12, 2019 -
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Davon Woodard heads to South Africa for first phase of research on social networks in minority communities , articleThe Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation research trainee in the multidisciplinary UrbComp program, administered through the Discovery Analytics Center, will compare online and offline social networks to provide urban planners and local leaders with insights and expanded tools to increase the voice and visibility of historically marginalized citizens.
Date: Aug 22, 2019 -
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Tanushree Mitra among first to receive research grant providing access to Facebook data , articleThe assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also one of only two women to receive the Social Media and Democracy Research Grant. Mitra and her team will study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform.
Date: Jul 08, 2019 -
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Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos , articleWith the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
Date: Jun 28, 2019 -
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Amazon Research Award supports developing algorithms that tackle unfairness in recommendation engines , articleWhile other research focuses almost exclusively on situations where group identities of users are known, Bert Huang, professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, and Ph.D. student Sirui Yao look at settings where they do not know, or do not trust, information about who belongs to what groups.
Date: Apr 18, 2019 -
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Software platform engages communities in school rezoning decisions , articleAn online interactive platform developed at the Discovery Analytics Center uses data analytics and machine learning to help stakeholders better understand school rezoning plans and potential effects on the community. Users can also share comments and concerns about proposed plans, propose changes to boundaries, and even create their own plans.
Date: Apr 16, 2019