Award From National Science Foundation and Amazon to Improve AI Fairness

My T. Thai, associate director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute and UF Foundation Research Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), in collaboration with professors Hanghang Tong from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ross Maciejewski from Arizona State University, recently received a three-year award for over $1 million from the National Science Foundation and Amazon. The award is a part of their joint Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (FAI) program, which supports computational research focused on fairness in AI, with the goal of contributing to trustworthy AI systems that can help tackle society’s biggest challenges.