Laboratory for Analytic Sciences Releases 2024 Impact Report
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the lab’s progress in intelligence analysis research.
The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at North Carolina State University released its 2024 Impact Report, highlighting the organization’s continued exploration of novel capabilities that improve intelligence analysis. This year’s report celebrates the lab’s groundbreaking work through cross-sector collaborations with faculty, students, companies, and government agencies.
LAS supports national security by focusing on the following research themes: content triage, human-machine teaming, and operationalizing artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Last year, LAS funded year-long research projects with 21 industry and academic collaborators, including universities like UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, and Northwestern University, and companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAS Institute. These projects aimed to aid intelligence analysts in evaluating large volumes of data.
The lab’s third annual Summer Conference on Applied Data Science (SCADS) also brought together 40 participants for an 8-week, cross-sector collaboration in Raleigh, NC. Researchers worked side-by-side on rapid prototyping to help the intelligence community with data analysis.
“NC State remains proud to partner with the U.S. Intelligence Community and all of our academic and industry collaborators, as LAS continues to drive analytics innovation and shape the landscape of intelligence analysis,” says Matthew Schmidt, principal investigator at LAS.
Stories with Impact
From facts and figures to spotlights on collaborators, the 2024 Impact Report provides readers with an overview of the real-world impact of intelligence analysis research happening at LAS. Contents include:
- 2024 Scholarly Publications
- Faculty Spotlight: Tim Menzies, NC State
- A Better Image Search Tool with George Washington University, St. Louis University, and Washington University in St. Louis
- Faculty Spotlight: Richard Lamb, University of Georgia
- Summarizing Conversational Speech with RTX BBN
- Kairos Research Helps LAS Study Human Trust in AI
- Refining Model Scanning Infrastructure
- Enhancing Operator Comment Workflows with UNC-Chapel Hill
- Model Deployment Service Saves Time, Boosts Scalability
- Advancing Surveillance Video Summarization
- A Revolutionary Initiative to Strengthen Internet Integrity
- Enhancing Speech-to-Text Triage
- Recognizing Manipulated Media with Northwestern University
- Tearlines with Amazon Web Services: ‘It’s Classified’ – But Here’s the Unclassified Summary
- Collaborators Build Reporting Tools for Intelligence Community at Third Annual SCADS
- SAS and LAS Develop Tools for Non-Technical Analysts
- Pacific Northwest National Lab Collaborates with LAS
- NC State Students Design UX for Intelligence Analysts
- NC State Computer Science Students Advance Speech-to-Text in Audio Sensemaking
About LAS
LAS is a partnership between the intelligence community and NC State that develops innovative technology and tradecraft to help solve mission-relevant problems. Founded in 2013 by the National Security Agency and NC State, each year LAS brings together collaborators from three sectors – industry, academia and government – to conduct research that has a direct impact on national security.
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