PIT Faculty Fellows’ AI Lightning Talks and Lunch | AI & Us

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First Floor Multi-Purpose Room
UMass Amherst Old Chapel
Hybrid
Research

This session of the AI & Us SBS Series will showcase the work of the 2025–2026 PIT Faculty Fellows as they present early outcomes from their Responsible AI seed-funded projects. Each team will deliver a 15-minute lightning talk, followed by 5 minutes of audience Q&A. Lunch will be provided.

  • Youngbin Kwak and Mohommad Atari, College of Natural Sciences – Cross-cultural human–AI collaboration: trust, communication styles, and decision-making across diverse populations
  • Chaitra Gopalappa & Mohammad Derakhshi, College of Engineering – Integrating social determinants of health into AI-driven epidemic modeling to improve equitable public health strategy design
  • Joe Pater & Virginia Partridge, College of Humanities and Fine Arts and College of Information and Computer Science – Developing AI tools for automatic, accurate transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet using speech-recognition technologies

Presented by the Public Interest Technology Initiative at UMass and co-sponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences AI and Us Series.

Hybrid event posted in Research

UMass Amherst Old Chapel

144 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

First Floor Multi-Purpose Room