AI.DIVE Research Showcase Symposium

AI.DIVE RESEARCH SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM

Artificial Intelligence Discoveries, Innovations, and Ventures at Emory

September 11, 2024

10 AM - 6 PM

Robert W. Woodruff Library

AI.DIVE RESEARCH SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (2)

Speakers and Panelists

Executive Address

Ravi Bellamkonda

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Emory University

Ravi V. Bellamkonda serves as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University. As the institution’s chief academic officer, he ensures the quality of undergraduate, graduate and professional education and advances Emory’s progress as an eminent research university. The deans of all the schools at Emory report to the provost on all academic matters.

Interactive Session

Think Bigger: Unknown Use Cases for Generative AI

Paul Welty

Vice Provost for Academic Innovation

Interim Executive Director

Emory Continuing Education

Emory University

As vice provost for academic innovation and interim director of the Emory Continuing Education (ECE) program, Paul Welty is responsible for Facet, the enterprise-wide faculty database; the Hatchery, a center through which Emory's student creators and entrepreneurs can experience all stages of innovation from inspiration and learning to projects and startups; and ECE, which helps people broaden their skills and contribute to changing workplace needs.

Welty brings to Emory more than 20 years of experience in the technology and marketing industries, where he has built solutions, teams, and organizations that address business problems with modern technology at companies such as North Highland, Sparks Grove, Synaxis, and the Merge Agency.

AI + Democracy: Electoral Transparency in the 2024 Election

Moderator

Joe Sutherland

Director

Center for AI Learning

Emory University

Dr. Sutherland is a noted technology executive, public service leader, and educator. His professional background includes executive roles at Amazon and Cisco, public service at The White House and academic appointments at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and Emory. As the inaugural director of the Emory Center for AI Learning, he promotes artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and community across Emory University.

Anthony DeMattee

Data Scientist for the Democracy Program

The Carter Center

The Democracy Program works globally to support democratic elections and strengthen participatory democracy, consistent with human rights. The overarching objective is to enhance democratic governance and increase effective political participation for all, especially groups that have been historically disadvantaged or that face political, cultural, or socioeconomic barriers.

James Roland

Senior Director

Center for Civic and Community Engagement

Emory University

Emory's Center for Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) supports members of the Emory community to develop and apply their skills to foster a kinder and more socially just world. Last academic year, the CCE developed and supported over 13,000 hours of service across over 650 different opportunities for volunteer engagement.

Zachary Peskowitz

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

Emory University

Zachary Peskowitz, PhD, is an associate professor of political science at Emory and an expert on how elections affect public policy outcomes. His research uses statistical and survey methods to understand how electoral rules affect who participates, how the electoral environment affects candidates' campaign strategies and politicians' behavior in office, and how well politicians represent the opinions of their constituents. He has conducted and analyzed public opinion surveys to measure citizen attitudes on policy issues in Atlanta, across Georgia, and nationwide.

LLMs Usage in Academia: A Discussion on Qualitative Research

Marcia Ash is a mixed-methods researcher and PhD candidate in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. Her research broadly focuses on the implementation of behavioral interventions and digital tools to address mental health inequities. Marcia also has industry experience as a User Experience Researcher, most recently at LinkedIn. As a Research Fellow at the Center for AI Learning, Marcia is studying the application of large language models to support qualitative data analysis.

Moderator

Marcia Ash

Research Fellow

Center for AI Learning

Rollins School of Public Health

Deanna Kaplan, PhD is the Director of the Human Experience and Ambulatory Technologies (HEAT) Lab, a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and Emory Spiritual Health. She is an advisor for this Delphi study, and she is appointed faculty for several Emory centers, including the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Spiritual Health, and the ADJUST Center.

Deanna Kaplan

Assistant Professor

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

Emory University

Dr. Michael Hoffmann is a Professor for Philosophy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. He is the Director of the Reflect! Lab, Co-Director of ETHICx, the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center, and he directs the VIP Digital Deliberation.

Michael Hoffmann,

Professor for Philosophy

Co-Director of the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center (ETHICx)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Rajiv Garg’s research explores the economic and social implications of digital technologies and human-machine interactions, while considering privacy and ethical implications. More recently, his research has delved into the applications of AI in education, marketing, and e-commerce.

Rajiv Garg

Associate Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Emory University

AI in the Workplace

Moderator

Tommy Ottolin

Senior Program Coordinator

Center for AI Learning

Tommy Ottolin comes to Emory after a history of product and project management roles, ranging from musical AI startups to healthcare technology companies. He sources, designs, and manages all experiential learning projects through the Center, acting as the students' support throughout the engagement.

Chris Yasko

Architect, Experiential Learning Lab

Center for AI Learning

Christopher Yasko is a former senior vice president, and chief data scientist, at Equifax. He currently works with Emory’s Center for AI Learning, setting the technical architecture of our student projects. With over thirty years of industry experience, he’s led a global team chartered to pioneer disruptive solutions utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Kimber Armstrong

Strategic Partnerships Lead

Better Business Bureau ®

Kimber Armstrong is BBB Atlanta’s Strategic Partnerships Lead. She’s been with BBB for 6 years and manages their partnerships and educational programming.

Nicole Torno

Data Analyst

Invest Atlanta

Nicole Torno is the data analyst for Invest Atlanta; she came to Invest Atlanta from a background in academic research. She completed her undergraduate coursework at the UC Santa Barbara, and she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in data science from UC San Diego.

Sasha Smith

Technology Strategist

City of Atlanta

Sasha Smith is a former technology consultant who worked in the e-commerce, human capital and DEI. She has a background in working in social work, non-profits and higher education.She is a double alumna of the University of Connecticut ending her studies with a Master's of Social Work with a focus in Community Organizing and Social Justice. In addition to her MSW she also has an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Student Exhibits

Accreditations for Better Business Bureau

This project attempted to predict business accreditation status based on operational data in BBB

Chris Wang

Jonathan Wang

Gloria Wang

Caitlin Wei

Claudia Yang

The AI Tools Repository

The AI Tools Repository is a curated platform that categorizes AI tools, sourced from student contributions and web research.

Sirui Zhou

Kiran Nimmakayala

Atlanta BeltLine

This project studied the impact of the construction of the beltline in Atlanta in causing green gentrification.

Ashley Wang

Minsol Kim

Kaavya Muthuganesan

Chris Cardenas

Dahyoung Lee

Image Generative AI Corruption

This research addresses the ethical and legal challenges of using copyrighted images in AI training datasets by reconstructing Stable Diffusion models and "corrupting" them with new images.

Ao Lyu

Claudia Yang

Fay Yan

Frank Feng

Helen Jin

Katie Shao

Paul Ge

Shawn Chen

Stephanie Ma

Tom Suo

Tuan Vinh

Leads and Google Data

This project predicted BBB accreditation approval based on an aggregation of Google Maps data and BBB data.

Tomas Hossain-Aguilar

Felix Huang

Jocelyn Nguyen

Iris Wu

Jeffrey Wu

Machine Learning-Assisted Image Detection for Actin Depolymerization

Using machine learning, this research automates the measurement of protein depolymerization in lab workstations.

Etna Ozkara

Amy Yan

Museum Artifact Tagging Bias

The project utilizes AI to identify potential bias in the Michael C. Carlos Museum's artifact collections.

Raasikh Kanjiani

Lina Li

Chang Liu

Jessie Ni

Jaroy Wei

Sophia Yoon

Obesity in Atlanta: An AutoML Analysis on Social Determinants of Health

We utilized autoML techniques to identify key social determinants of health that contribute to obesity in the metro Atlanta area.

Sana Ansari

Zhuohan Chi

Sunny Fong

Raya Islam

Rishi Khullar

Pengfei Lou

Yoonsuh Park

Caitlin Wei

Jillian Wu

Ombot - Help Desk

This project is focused on building an empathetic chat bot that the Emory community can use to learn more about on-campus resources they have.

Raphael Palacio

Dylan Parker

Predicting Relationships Between Neighborhood Qualities and Gentrification

This project examined possible areas of gentrification in Atlanta based on economic mobility, property data, and race.

Lily Liu

Ihan Do

Marry Guan

Xipu Wang

Small Business Accreditation Strategy for the Better Business Bureau

This team worked with the Better Business Bureau to identify ways to best serve minority business owners.

Hasong Cho

Leo Chen

Andy Dang

Muhammed Jaiteh

Laura Wang

Student Advising Agent

Our project enhances university advising by integrating knowledge graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with generative AI through LangChain.

Jihan Lee

Minyang Li

Eileena Mathews

Henry Ning

Chris Paik

Brian Tekadtuera

Christopher Wang

Coco Wu

John Zhai

Eric Zou

Ugandan Art

This project compares a computer vision model's ability to codify Ugandan children's drawings to the standard human review process.

Alisha Morejon

Kiran Nimmakayala

Tuan Vinh

Why Some Intersections Cause So Many Accidents: A Geospatial Machine Learning Approach

This project investigates crashes by frequency and location to determine if there is a correlation between the number of crashes at a particular intersection and whether the roads in that intersection are owned and managed by two or more jurisdictions rather than one.

Andrew Yin

Annie Ye

Charlotte Zhao

Harris Wang

Heyi Yang

Jayden Bai

Ram Kandikonda

Reese Yang

Riyaa Randhawa

Xipu Wang

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