Research Focus
Digital technologies such as social media, web, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have revolutionized information generation and consumption, generating massive unstructured data that presents an information overload challenge for sensemaking at any organization. Thus, my research interest is to mine relevant behaviors in online data at scale through the human-AI collaboration based intelligent/AI systems, which can augment human capabilities at organizational workplaces for processing realtime information for decision support. For example, creating realtime systems to filter data to discover people seeking help during disasters to aid emergency services. I create human-centered computing methods to extract and analyze individual/group behavioral knowledge (e.g., intentional acts) from text and multimedia data streams using Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning techniques. Our lab applies this research in a variety of domains to design AI systems for public services and social good, e.g., managing natural crises (hurricanes, etc), societal crises (hate, gender violence, etc.), and human crises (terrorism, cyberattacks, etc.).
Current Projects
■ NSF CRII Project: Creating algorithms for mining user intentions from natural language content, such as for seeking help on social media during disasters
■ NSF III Project: Designing computational summarization approaches to handle noisy, unstructured data streams from multiple online sources in real-time to transform into a structured and machine-readable format and augment decision support systems of emergency and public services, especially during disasters
■ NSF DUE Project: Analyzing social media participation as indicator of actors, awareness, attitudes, and activities related to STEM education and diversity
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