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  • 2023
    • Sanghani Center research takes new approach to analyze depression, anxiety from Reddit posts to provide better care, lower suicide rate
    • Virginia Tech celebrates Innovation Campus construction milestone with Topping Out Ceremony
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Rebecca DeSipio
    • Virginia Tech team selected for the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2 to advance task-oriented conversational artificial intelligence
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Hoang Anh Just
    • Danfeng 'Daphne' Yao, pioneer and expert in enterprise data security, elevated to IEEE fellow
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Raquib Bin Yousuf
    • Lenwood Heath collaborating on plant genome research project funded by National Science Foundation grant
    • Virginia Tech researchers receive National Science Foundation award to secure vegetable production in a changing environment
    • Dawei Zhou receives Cisco Faculty Research Award to help combat destructive insider threats to cybersecurity
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Afrina Tabassum
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Shengzhe Xu
    • Current page: For chatbots and beyond: Improving lives with data starts with improving machine learning
    • Makanjuola Ogunleye among eight students nationwide to receive Cadence Black Students in Technology Scholarship
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Amarachi Blessing Mbakwe
    • Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative showcases innovative approaches to robust and efficient machine learning
    • Researchers study the crowdsourced investigation of Jan. 6, 2021
    • Lifu Huang receives NSF CAREER award to lay new ground for information extraction without relying on humans
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Longfeng Wu
    • Class of 2023: Mohannad Elhamod and Alli Rossi-Alvarez named Graduate Students of the Year
    • Congratulations to Sanghani Center's 2023 Spring Graduates
    • Innovation Campus solidifies plans for faculty recruitment, research areas of focus, and curriculum
    • Sanghani Center graduate students gain real-world experience while working at companies and labs from coast to coast
    • Children's National Hospital, Virginia Tech unite to advance AI for pediatric health
    • ¿Qué piensas? Graduate School program provides platform for idea-sharing with Latin American visitors
    • Innovation Campus solidifies plans for faculty recruitment, research areas of focus, and curriculum
    • Discussions on higher education issues, universitywide priorities frame quarterly board meeting; final design for Mitchell Hall approved
    • Making a CAREER on bridging scientific knowledge and AI
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Wenjia Song
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Vanshaj Khattar
    • Faculty 'cautiously optimistic' about the potential of generative AI
    • Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative announces support for two Amazon Fellows and five faculty-led projects for 2023-24 academic year
    • Ming Jin receives NSF grant to introduce antifragility into power systems
    • Sanghani Center Student Spotlight: Syuan-Ying Wu
    • New Data and Decision Sciences Building encourages collaboration to address world’s data challenges
    • Human-Centered Future of Work Symposium set for Nov. 3
    • Sanghani Center leads collaborative study to improve both discovery and traceability of illegally-sourced timber
    • Teaming up to beat the heat
    • Aman Ahuja garners 2023 Innovative Student Thesis Award from Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
    • 'Curious Conversations' podcast: Ismini Lourentzou talks about AI's potential as an assistant
    • Congratulations to Sanghani Center’s 2023 Summer and Fall Graduates
    • Researchers use environmental justice questions to reveal geographic biases in ChatGPT

For chatbots and beyond: Improving lives with data starts with improving machine learning

April 10, 2023

Ruoxi Jia. Photo by Chelsea Seeber for Virginia Tech.
Ruoxi Jia. Photo by Chelsea Seeber for Virginia Tech.

Assistant Professor Ruoxi Jia in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analyitics at Virginia Tech has received an National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to investigate fundamental theories and computational tools needed to measure the value of data. Read full story here .

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