LAS Announces 2026 Collaborators
Twenty-two faculty members from 16 universities and five 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 22 faculty collaborators representing 16 academic institutions and five 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 project proposal process.
This year’s projects align with LAS’s core research initiatives in sensemaking, human-centered AI, and operationalizing AI and machine learning.
Much of LAS’s unclassified research portfolio has applications not only for the intelligence community but also for industries across 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 challenge areas: audio sensemaking, video sensemaking, AI-infused reporting, AI-infused workflows and analytics, and AI-model assessments benchmarking.
The 2026 LAS collaborators are:
Faculty collaborators
- 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
- Robin Burke, College of Communication, Media, Design and Information, University of Colorado Boulder*
- Carlos Busso, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- R. Jordan Crouser, Department of Computer Science, Kenyon College
- Mallesham Dasari, College of Engineering, Northeastern University*
- Alex Endert, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ali Gurbuz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University*
- Lane Harrison, Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Sungwon In, College of Engineering, Northeastern University*
- Nathan Jacobs, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
- Alexandros Kapravelos, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
- Richard Lamb, College of Pharmacy and College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
- Chris North, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
- 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
- Matthew Stamm, College of Engineering, Drexel University*
- Abby Stylianou, Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Science, St. Louis University
- Xuan Wang, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech*
- 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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