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Dec 1, 2023

ORBS: Operationalizing Recommender-Based SIGINT

Blake Hartley, Mike Geide, Mattia Shin, PUNCH Cyber Analytics Group Stephen W., Lori Wachter, Pauline M., Al J., Jacque J., Stephen S. What our recommender system does Over the past…

Dec 1, 2023

Diagramming Explanatory Narratives

Causal Storyboards: Augmented Interactive Visualisation for Narrative Abduction   Tim van Gelder, Director, Hunt Laboratory for Intelligence Research, University of Melbourne Project team members: University of Melbourne: Richard de Rozario, Morgan…

Dec 1, 2023

An Introduction to the LAS Model Deployment Service

Troy W., Brent Y., Michael G., Aaron W. The LAS Model Deployment Service (MDS) is a prototype system providing a cloud provider agnostic environment for deploying, scaling and monitoring ML…

Dec 1, 2023

PandaJam: Understanding Triage of Speech-to-Text

Patti K., Sue Mi K., Susie B., Jessica E., Pauline M., John S., Jascha S., Brent Y. Gaining a deeper understanding of analyst workflows is a fundamental step towards implementing…

Sep 20, 2023

Speech Emotion Recognition: Using High Arousal to Find Intriguing Conversations

If we can search audio recordings by the emotions in a speaker’s voice, we could pinpoint a heated argument or surprise celebration.  A team of researchers at the Laboratory for…

May 25, 2023

Students Lead Spring Semester Projects that Support Intelligence Analysts

Students play a vital role in research at the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. From design to computer science and data prioritization, we’re spotlighting four of this year’s research projects at…

Dec 5, 2022

Taming Deep Learning: Faster and Cheaper

This work was funded by the NCSU LAS: Laboratory for Analytics Sciences, 2022. Summary: A “router-based” reasoning oracle can tell when not-so-hard predictions can be handled by a simple/fast/cheap linear model; or…

Dec 5, 2022

LAS Senior Design Engagement

Since the mid-1990s, undergraduate students majoring in engineering and computer science at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have been required to complete a capstone research project during the final semester…

Dec 5, 2022

What Happens When Design Students Innovate for Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence analysts must make sense of never-ending waves of information that crash over them from every direction. Understanding how best to navigate such a vast, ever-changing ocean of data with…

Dec 5, 2022

Communicating Intel to Decision-Makers: Toward the Integration of Graphs in Reports

Melanie Bancilhon, R. Jordan Crouser, Alvitta Ottley Intelligence analysts’ roles include analyzing reports, identifying important information relevant to the current state of affairs, and communicating their takeaways. These reports are…