News
Bias-NRT Fellow, Carl Wiedemann, Presented Poster at the 2023 SPSP Annual Convention
How Considering Future Consequences of Purchase Decisions Relates to Beliefs About
the Utility of Money Through Rational Decision Making
Carl J. Wiedemann & Antonio L. Freitas, Ph.D.
"On March 8, 2023, University Libraries hosted ChatGPT & Generative AI: An SBU Forum. Dean Karim Boughida moderated a faculty, staff, & student panel with interest and expertise in large language models (LLM) and how they might intersect with higher education..."
Photo from left: Rose Tirotta-Esposito, Susan Brennan, Sowad Ocean Karim, Owen Rambow,
and Karim Boughida
Photo credit: Victoria Pilato
Bias-NRT attends 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
From left to right: Rosa Bermejo (NRT Fellow), Kristen Kalb-DellaRatta (Project Coordinator), Susan Brennan (Principal Investigator)
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Announces New Graduate Program in Data Science
"Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences has announced a new graduate program in data science (DAS), which will offer both MS and PhD degree programs in data science beginning in Fall 2023."
Data science program faculty (front row, starting fourth from left) Wei Zhu (Applied Mathematics and Statistics), C.R. Ramakrishnan (Computer Science) and Pei Fen Kuan (Applied Mathematics and Statistics), along with several program students. Photo by John Griffin.
"Twenty-three members of Stony Brook University’s faculty and staff have received the 2021-2022 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
The awards acknowledge the dedication and accomplishments of instructional faculty, librarians and professional staff across SUNY campuses and encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence."
Dr. Adryan Wallace, Faculty on BIAS-NRT, Selected to Present at United Nations Conference
on Africa
"Adryan Wallace, assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently selected by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
(OSAA) to present at an upcoming conference on 'Africa’s fiscal space, fragility,
and conflict.'"
NSF Awards Nearly $3 Million for Graduate Research Training in Data Science and AI
"Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) have become powerful tools for generating
new knowledge, fueling innovation and dealing with some of society’s most pressing
problems. However, 'big data' and machine learning tools can perpetuate biases that
advantage some people, while disadvantaging others."
Back row: Memming Park (Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior and IACS affiliate faculty), Susan Brennan (Area Head and Professor, Cognitive Science Program, Psychology), Jeffrey Heinz (Professor, Linguistics/IACS core faculty), Adryan Wallace (Assistant Professor, Africana Studies/Women’s Studies/Political Science), CR Ramakrishnan (Professor and Graduate Program Director, Computer Science), Reuben Kline (Associate Professor, Political Science). Front row: Wei Zhu (CEAS Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International Programs; Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and IACS affiliate faculty), Bonita London (Professor, Social and Health Program, Psychology), Owen Rambow (Professor and IACS Endowed Chair, Linguistics/IACS) Photo by John Griffin