News & Announcements
| 09.2026. | publication | Position paper presented at the First Workshop on Sovereign AI for Collaborative and Pluralistic AI Ecosystems (ACM HCOMP 2026, Washington, DC): Sovereignty Through Interdependence: Epistemic Agency, Intelligent Action, and Federated AI Collaborators: Maneesh Kumar Singh, BharatGen, Lav R. Varshney, AI Innovation Institute @ Stony Brook University, and Kaushik Bhatta, AI Alliance |
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| 05.2026. | publication | Our multilingual (English, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese), multinational (USA, UK, Ukraine, Russia, and China), and longitudinal (31 months) corpus on the Russo-Ukrainian war is published in LREC 2026. The corpus is dubbed dnipro — Diverse Narratives and International Perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian Offensive — and released as a public resource on Zenodo: • https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20433469 |
| 01.2026. | phd | Chenlu Wang defends her Ph.D. on Pragmatic Language Understanding and Information Integrity. Dr. Wang will begin her next chapter as a Research Scientist at Meta.. |
| 12.2025. | publication | Two publications at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2025: On evidence-based reasoning across languages On medical expert identification Collaborators: Chaoyuan Zuo, Nankai University |
| 09.2025. | award | We are awarded a research grant by the Society of Family Planning to study misinformation and disinformation surrounding contraception. |
| 09.2025. | publication | Vishnu Raja’s work on dysarthric speech @ EMNLP 2025. Collaborators: H. Andrew Schwartz @ Vanderbilt University |
| 06.2025. | publication | Yunik Tamrakar and Ethan Myers publish their work on Android app permission fidelity @ Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST 2025). Collaborators: Dr. Lorenzo De Carli @ University of Calgary and Dr. Indrakshi Ray @ Colorado State University |
| 05.2025. | publication | Chenlu Wang’s work on class distillation @ ACL 2025. |
| 12.2024. | award | We are awarded a research grant from the AI Innovation Institute to decode argumentation and fallacies in digital media. Collaborators: Dr. Ruobing Li, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University |
| 05.2024. | publication | Our work on detecting whataboutism in media introduces a novel mechanism of hard negative mining @ Findings of ACL 2024. |
| 04.2024. | phd | Noushin Salek Faramarzi defends her Ph.D. ⇒ Natural Language Understanding @ Boeing. |
| 01.2024. | award | We are awarded a pilot research grant from the Stony Brook School of Medicine to investigate natural language signals of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. Collaborators: Dr. Farrukh Koraishy, Stony Brook School of Medicine |
| 09.2023. | award | We are awarded an NSF EAGER research grant to investigate medical data against privacy laws. Collaborators: Dr. Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University |
| 01.2023. | award | We receive a SUNY Multidisciplinary Small Team Award to identify natural language predictors of chronic kidney disease in patients with PTSD. Collaborators: Dr. Farrukh Koraishy, Stony Brook School of Medicine |
| 10.2021. | phd | Chaoyuan Zuo defends her Ph.D. ⇒ School of Journalism and Communication, Nankai University. |
| 09.2020. | publication | Chaoyuan Zuo and Narayan Acharya publish their research on cross-genre information retrieval @ EMNLP 2020. |
| 06.2019. | publication | Chaoyuan Zuo’s research on identification of “check-worthy” claims is invited to the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2019. |
| 05.2018. | award | We are awarded an NSF EAGER research grant to study cross-genre semantic changes in health-related information presented and disseminated by traditional and social media. |