AI and Us:
Upcoming Events

This session of the AI & Us SBS Series will showcase the work of the 2025–2026 PIT Faculty Fellows as they present early outcomes from their Responsible AI seed-funded projects. Each team will deliver a 15-minute lightning talk, followed by 5 minutes of audience Q&A. Lunch will be provided.

• Youngbin Kwak and Mohommad Atari, College of Natural Sciences – Cross-cultural human–AI collaboration: trust, communication styles, and decision-making across diverse populations

• Chaitra Gopalappa & Mohammad Derakhshi, College of Engineering – Integrating social determinants of health into AI-driven epidemic modeling to improve equitable public health strategy design

• Joe Pater & Virginia Partridge, College of Humanities and Fine Arts and College of Information and Computer Science – Developing AI tools for automatic, accurate transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet using speech-recognition technologies

Presented by the Public Interest Technology Initiative at UMass and co-sponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences AI and Us Series

We are calling for posters on topics related to computational social science, broadly defined, including but not limited to statistical and computational methods and their applications, social networks, text-as-data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and their impact on society and the future of work. The event is a great opportunity for students to get feedback on their work from faculty beyond their own classes and for the wider public to learn about the latest research in computational social sciences. 

Co-sponsored by the Computational Social Sciences Institute (CSSI) and the Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) program.