DSI Faculty Council member Thomas M. Powers, director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy associate professor of philosophy and the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and lead of the Ethics Working Group of the First State AI Institute, is part of a  group of international researchers who recently coauthored “Roadmap for Responsible Robotics”, published in IEEE Robotics and Automation.

With support from the National Science Foundation, DSI Resident Faculty member Rahmat Beheshti, center, is exploring how to evaluate, and ultimately improve, the reliability and fairness of AI in medicine.

DSI affiliated faculty member Daniel Harris, assistant professor of epidemiology at UD, and co-principal investigator Kaley Hayes of Brown University, have been awarded $2.6 million from the National Institute on Aging to study blood pressure treatment strategies in nursing homes.

Lost or abandoned crab pots pose both environmental and navigational risks as they litter the seafloor, damage boat propellers and trap marine life. At an event hosted by UD’s Delaware Sea Grant, volunteers scooped 120 crab pots out of the Indian River.   The event was led by DSI Faculty Council member Art Trembanis, professor in UD’s School of Marine Science and Policy and Brittany Haywood, coastal ecology specialist.

DSI resident faculty member Sanford Student, assistant professor in CEHD’s School of Education, has published several articles. They include “Vertical scaling with moderated nonlinear factor analysis” in the Journal of Educational Measurement and “Applying Bayesian checks of cancellation axioms for interval scaling in limited samples” in Behavior Research Methods.

Delaware Governor Matt Meyer, with DSI faculty council member Sunita Chandrasekaran, told the hackathon participants that winning the future “ultimately will come down to talent, to people. Our success comes down not to artificial intelligence, but to real intelligence.”

DSI affiliated faculty member Xiang-Gen Xia (bottom left) was among five University of Delaware professors named to the 2025 list of Highly Cited Researchers, an international designation by Clarivate, a global analytics company.