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 spring 2022


AI-Cybersecurity Education Through Designing AI-based Cyberharassment Detection Lab

Okpala, Ebuka, Vishwamitra, Nishant, Guo, Keyan, Liao, Song, Cheng, Long, Hu, Hongxin, Wu, Yongkai, Yuan, Xiaohong, Wade, Jeannette, Khorsandroo, Sajad

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Cyberharassment is a critical, socially relevant cybersecurity problem because of the adverse effects it can have on targeted groups or individuals. While progress has been made in understanding cyber-harassment, its detection, attacks on artificial intelligence (AI) based cyberharassment systems, and the social problems in cyberharassment detectors, little has been done in designing experiential learning educational materials that engage students in this emerging social cybersecurity in the era of AI. Experiential learning opportunities are usually provided through capstone projects and engineering design courses in STEM programs such as computer science. While capstone projects are an excellent example of experiential learning, given the interdisciplinary nature of this emerging social cybersecurity problem, it can be challenging to use them to engage non-computing students without prior knowledge of AI. Because of this, we were motivated to develop a hands-on lab platform that provided experiential learning experiences to non-computing students with little or no background knowledge in AI and discussed the lessons learned in developing this lab. In this lab used by social science students at North Carolina A&T State University across two semesters (spring and fall) in 2022, students are given a detailed lab manual and are to complete a set of well-detailed tasks. Through this process, students learn AI concepts and the application of AI for cyberharassment detection. Using pre- and post-surveys, we asked students to rate their knowledge or skills in AI and their understanding of the concepts learned. The results revealed that the students moderately understood the concepts of AI and cyberharassment.


Geospatial Data Science (Spring 2022)

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Massive geospatial data are generated every second from our smartphones, through our social media posts, or through many kinds of other means like tracked whale trajectories in the ocean, allowing us to trace the movements of entire societies. As these data keep growing, it becomes more important to extract meaningful insights from location, relation, and position, for applications as diverse as business analytics, epidemiology, or species protection. This course provides students core competences in Geospatial Data Science (GDS). A prerequisite for taking this course is solid know-how in Python programming and data analysis. There are 14 weeks of learning/teaching activities.


Spring 2022: NSF Convergence Accelerator

Interactive AI Magazine

Highlights from the current issue: NSF Convergence Accelerator Transitioning research to practice for societal impact The Third AI Summer Exploring recurring themes in AI history and the future of AI Challenges in ConvAI Evaluation Problems behind evaluating creative and mature ConvAI systems View Current Issue : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23719621/2022/43/1


Research Internship - NLP (Spring 2022)

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As the health and safety of our candidates and our employees come first, we're excited to provide virtual experiences for interviews and new hire on-boarding. Dataminr puts real-time AI and public data to work for our clients, generating relevant and actionable alerts for global corporations, public sector agencies, newsrooms, and NGOs. Our real-time alerts enable tens of thousands of users at hundreds of public and private sector organizations to learn first of breaking events around the world, develop effective risk mitigation strategies, and respond with confidence as crises unfold. Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, recently earning recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50 and Forbes Cloud 100 lists. We also earned accolades for'Most Innovative Use of AI' from the 2020 AI & Machine Learning Awards.