Congratulations to TDAI faculty David Melamed, Subhadeep Paul, and Dennis Hirsch for receiving Accelerator grants through the most recent cycle of the President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program, which awards up to $50,000 to small teams to pursue curiosity-driven, novel, high-risk and high-reward research. 

David Melamed, Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-investigator on Network Structures Shape Collective Responses to Embedded Misinformation with PI Kelly Garrett (College of Arts and Sciences) and co-investigators Duane Wegener (College of Arts and Sciences) and Srinivasan Parthasarathy (College of Engineering). This research uses network-based experiments to investigate how interactions between individuals, shaped by network topology, affect the formation of collective beliefs. The goal is to understand how misinformation remains entrenched in largely accurate networks.

Subhadeep Paul, Associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the lead PI on Heterogeneous Transfer And Federated Learning For Digital Twin In Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with co-investigator Debdipta Goswami (College of Engineering). The ambitious concept of Digital Twin (DT), which can replicate complex physical systems such as aerial vehicles digitally, has received enormous interest from industry leaders, policymakers, and scientists. The team proposes trustworthy AI solutions to develop a DT for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Dennis Hirsch is the lead PI on The Impact of Responsible AI Management (RAIM) on Organizational and Market Performance: An Econometric Study, with co-investigator Aravind Chandrasekaran (Fisher College of Business). This study examines the impact of Responsible AI Management (RAIM) practices on organizational performance. The team will use ISO 42001 certification as an indicator of RAIM adoption and apply econometric methods for the analysis.