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For the Record
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.
Building Trust in Medical AI
With support from the National Science Foundation, DSI Resident Faculty member Rahmat Beheshti is exploring how to evaluate, and ultimately improve, the reliability and fairness of AI in medicine.
Finding the Right Balance
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.
Crab Pot Cleanup
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.
For the Record
DSI affiliated faculty member James Rising lead the development of the integrated assessment model, called META, used to quantify costs and benefits in a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware published in the journal Science, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment based at the London School of Economics, the National Bank of Belgium and Duke University.
For the Record
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.
AI Meets Real Intelligence at UD Hackathon
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.”
Stronger by Design
University of Delaware researchers, including DSI affiliated faculty member Nektarios Tsoutsos (right) are leading an NSF-funded project to build security directly into computer chip design, using artificial intelligence, game theory and cryptography to stop hardware attacks before they happen.
UD Faculty Named Among World’s Most Influential Researchers
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.
Biotechnology Solutions for Plastics Problems
DSI affiliated faculty member Mark Blenner, Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has earned the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably.
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