Books are a profound resource. Novels especially are permanently inscribed with a vast archive of information and narratives. They highlight unseen elements of the human condition that would never be revealed in objective texts. When filtered through computational analysis, these books can inform intelligent systems about the most intimate parts of the human experience, and in turn, improve their capacity for human-centered reasoning.

Part seven of our AI Researcher Profile series invites Associate Professor Fusheng Wang of the Department of Computer Science and of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, to speak on his profound research efforts which are currently making inroads toward the ongoing opioid epidemic.

AI: What types of research interest you, and what inspired you to get involved with this research?

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to announce that Zhenhua Liu, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics , has received the prestigious National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Early CAREER Research award.

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.

Stony Brook Computer Science PhD student alum Aria Rezaei and Professor Jie Gao have been awarded the Best Paper Award at EWSN 2021 for "Application-driven Privacy-preserving Data Publishing with Correlated Attributes."

The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is an international conference focusing on the latest research related to embedded systems, wireless networking, the ‘Internet of Things’ and Cyber-Physical Systems. EWSN ‘21 featured the theme of “Embedded AI,” reflecting the recent technological advances at the crossroads of embedded systems and the vision of revolutionizing AI capabilities from the cloud to physical devices.

Two Stony Brook alum, Brad Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel, are paving the way in customer service technologies. The two trailblazers have sold their company, Kustomer, to Facebook for a whopping $1 billion.