Researchers study the crowdsourced investigation of Jan. 6, 2021 – Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

*Kurt Luther is an associate professor of computer science and history. Photo by Olivia Coleman* for Virginia Tech.

How has online sleuthing successfully replaced wanted posters?

Researchers within the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science answered this question by studying the crowdsourced online investigation that followed the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Tianjiao “Joey” Yu and Kurt Luther collaborated on the project with Ismini Lourentzou, assistant professor of computer science and a core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, and Sukrit Venkatagiri, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. Read the full story here.