LAS Announces 2023 Collaborators

Twenty faculty from 12 universities and seven companies will conduct LAS research projects this year.

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences at NC State University will provide research funding to 20 faculty collaborators representing 12 academic institutions as well as seven industry organizations. Collaborators will conduct research projects in partnership with LAS staff. Collaborators are selected by NC State through the annual white paper proposal process.

“This year’s projects continue to align with LAS’s strategic research initiatives in human-machine teaming, content triage and operationalizing machine learning,” says Matthew Schmidt, director of programs at LAS. “These initiatives are not mutually exclusive, and many 2023 projects will address two or more research initiatives.”

Specifically for 2023, LAS selected collaborators who will focus on the following technical areas: machine learning, video analysis, audio/speech analysis, cybersecurity, information science, human-computer interaction (HCI), user experience (UX) design, and cognitive science.

The 2023 LAS collaborators are:

Faculty collaborators

1. Jaime Arguello, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
2. Helen Armstrong, College of Design, NC State University  
3. Gedas Bertasius*, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
4. Sambit Bhattacharya, Department of Math and Computer Science, Fayetteville State University
5. Carlos Busso, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
6. Robert Capra, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill 
7. R. Jordan Crouser, Department of Computer Science, Smith College
8. Mary “Missy” Cummings*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University 
9. Brent Harrison, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky 
10. Sharon Joines, College of Design, NC State University 
11. Ketan Mayer-Patel, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
12. Tim Menzies, Department of Computer Science, NC State University 
13. Alvitta Ottley, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis 
14. Matthew Peterson*, College of Design, NC State University
15. Eric Ragan, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida
16. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
17. Montek Singh, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
18. Tim van Gelder, Hunt Laboratory for Intelligence Research, University of Melbourne, Australia
19. Stephen Ware, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky
20. Matthew Wright*, Department of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology

Industry collaborators

1. Amazon Web Services*
2. Cymantix
3. Elemendar
4. Kairos Research*
5. Parenthetic*
6. PUNCH Cyber Analytics Group
7. SAS Institute

*New LAS collaborators for 2023

Collaborators are working with LAS staff to define each project’s goals and objectives for the year and how they align with LAS’s research initiatives. LAS will also conduct several student-led projects, including NC State senior design projects. Research project results will be presented at LAS’s annual Research Symposium in December.