LAS Announces 2025 Collaborators
Seventeen faculty from 11 universities and three companies will conduct LAS research projects this year.
The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences at NC State University will provide research funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to 17 faculty collaborators representing 11 academic institutions and three industry organizations this year. Collaborators will conduct year-long, national security-related research projects in partnership with LAS staff. NC State selects collaborators through the annual white paper proposal process.
This year’s projects align with LAS’s core research initiatives in human-machine teaming, content triage and operationalizing machine learning.
Much of LAS’s unclassified research portfolio helps not just the intelligence community, but industries across various sectors. This broader impact allows LAS to engage collaborators who are not typically focused on intelligence-specific problems but have relevant expertise.
LAS selected collaborators who will focus on the following application areas: object and activity detection in full-motion video, providing support for technical intelligence, producing tailored summaries of relevant information, rule-constrained text summaries, audio environment analysis, and edge deployment of machine learning-based content triage approaches.
The 2025 LAS collaborators are:
Faculty collaborators
- Jaime Arguello, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Helen Armstrong, College of Design, NC State University
- Gedas Bertasius, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Sambit Bhattacharya, Department of Math and Computer Science, Fayetteville State University
- Cody Buntain, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland*
- Robert Capra, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
- R. Jordan Crouser, Department of Computer Science, Smith College
- Alex Endert, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lane Harrison, Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute*
- Nathan Jacobs, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
- Deborah Littlejohn, College of Design, NC State University
- Valeria López Torres, College of Design, NC State University*
- Matthew Peterson, College of Design, NC State University
- Robert Pless, Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering & Applied Science, George Washington University
- Richard Souvenir, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, College of Science and Technology, Temple University*
- Abby Stylianou, Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Science, St. Louis University
- Yue Wang, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill*
Industry collaborators
*New LAS year-long collaborators
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. The results will be presented at LAS’s annual Research Symposium in December.
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