The Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech, directed by Dr. Kurt Luther, researches the complementary strengths of crowdsourced human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) in domains like journalism, history, and national security. Our current projects focus on improving open source intelligence (OSINT) analysis, combating disinformation and misinformation, identifying unknown people and places in historical and modern photos, and understanding real-world crowdsourced investigations.
Our research has been featured in media outlets including The Atlantic, CNN, Harvard Business Review, The History Channel, NPR, Smithsonian, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal. We have received funding from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, US Department of Defense, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation (including a CAREER Award).
The Crowd Lab is based in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computing at Virginia Tech, with locations in Blacksburg and Alexandria. We are also affiliated with Virginia Tech’s Department of History, the Center for Human–Computer Interaction, the National Security Institute, and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.