Huan Chen and Sylvia Chan-Olmsted Receive UF AI Research Catalyst Award

Huan Chen, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising associate professor, Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, CJC Telecommunication professor and Media Consumer Research director, and UF College of Engineering Professor My Thai have received a UF Research Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Catalyst Fund award for their project “Fairness in Information Access Through Culturally Competent AI Systems.”

According to the authors, “The proposed project will facilitate certain social groups’ information access in specific contexts, resulting in better information receptivity because of cultural resonance. It will help to build a large-scale fairer information access system via culturally competent AI mediated model, advancing the research fronts of fairness in machine learning where we not only exclude the bias features but also promote the cultural sensitivity features.”

Twenty faculty teams received $50,000 each to pursue a wide range of AI-related projects that will leverage the university’s new computing capabilities, which are being developed through $60 million in gifts from alumnus Chris Malachowsky and NVIDIA, the company he co-founded.

Chen will serve as the principal investigator for the project.

Posted: December 7, 2020
Category: AI at CJC News, College News
Tagged as: AIatUF, Artificial Intelligence, Huan Chen, Sylvia Chan-Olmsted