Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Category: Awards

  • Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2019

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    The Crowd Lab won the Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2019! Congratulations to Crowd Lab postdoc and team leader Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri, and undergraduate researchers David Mitchell and Chris Hurt. Their poster/demo was titled, “PairWise: Mitigating political bias in crowdsourced content moderation.” The Crowd Lab also won the Best Poster/Demo Award at…

  • Received Purdue Outstanding Technology Alumni Award

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    Dr. Luther was honored with the Outstanding Technology Alumni Award from his alma mater, Purdue Polytechnic Institute (formerly Purdue University’s College of Technology), at an awards event at Purdue University on April 26. According to the press release, recipients of the Outstanding Technology Alumni Award “have made significant and recognized impacts in their fields, and…

  • Accepted to CSST 2019 Summer Research Institute

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab postdoc Jake Thebault-Spieker for his acceptance to the NSF-funded Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST 2019) Summer Research Institute at Rutgers University in June 2019.

  • Best Paper Award at IUI 2019

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    Our paper, “Photo Sleuth: Combining Human Expertise and Face Recognition to Identify Historical Portraits,” received the Best Paper Award at IUI 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. This award recognized the best paper among 282 submissions. Congratulations to lead author Vikram Mohanty (CS Ph.D. student), David Thames (CS undergraduate), and Sneha Mehta (CS Ph.D. student). A…

  • Dr. Luther named ACWM Emerging Scholar

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    Dr. Luther was selected as one of eight Emerging Scholars by the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA. He will give an invited presentation on Civil War Photo Sleuth to audiences at the grand opening of the newly expanded museum on May 4. The goal of the program is to “highlight some of the…

  • Sukrit Venkatagiri selected as Rita Allen Misinformation Forum Graduate Fellow

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri on his selection as one of 12 Graduate Student Fellows of the Rita Allen Foundation’s Misinformation Solutions Forum, which took place in October 2018 in Washington, DC. As a Graduate Fellow, Sukrit received a travel grant to attend the Forum and co-authored (with Amy Zhang of MIT)…

  • Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the inaugural Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland. Their poster/demo was titled, “Are 1,000 Features Worth A Picture? Combining Crowdsourcing and Face Recognition to Identify Civil War Soldiers.”

  • Won Grand Prize in Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the Grand Prize in the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge. Their submission was titled, “Civil War Photo Sleuth” and the prize was $25,000.

  • Received COE Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award

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    Dr. Luther received the 2018 Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award in the College of Engineering.

  • Placed 3rd at 2018 VTURCS symposium

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab undergraduate researcher Anne Hoang for winning 3rd place in the Faculty Choice category at the 2018 Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) Symposium. There were 37 submissions including 22 capstone projects and 15 research projects. Anne also won 1st place in the Capstone category and 1st place in the…