College of Computing Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Courtland VanDam from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students
Abstract: MIT Lincoln Laboratory researches and develops advanced technologies to meet critical national security needs. What sets us apart from many national R&D laboratories is an emphasis on building operational prototypes of the systems we design. The Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group develops artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, technologies, and systems for extracting information from multimedia data in adverse conditions. Group members have developed advanced AI-based technologies to achieve world-leading performance in automatic speech, language, and speaker recognition for automatically identifying the words and language spoken and the speaker. We have successfully applied natural language processing techniques to automatically identify the authors, languages, topics, and entities (such as people, places, organizations, and events) in the content of communications. Our human-network AI technologies automatically extract information from speech, text, image, and video data combined with network communications to infer network and coordinated activities. These advanced detection capabilities are used by the Department of Defense and law enforcement to identify threatening or illicit activity on the surface and dark webs. Recent focus areas for our group include adversarial AI and AI assurance to increase analytic robustness and support operations in contested environments. Our group is widely recognized for its strong publications in journals and conferences. We emphasize AI, machine learning, technology transition to government in operational environments, and technology evaluation with operationally relevant metrics and datasets. In this talk, Dr. Courtland VanDam will discuss artificial intelligence technologies developed at Lincoln Laboratory including a deep dive on style change detection.
Bio: Dr. Courtland VanDam is a technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her primary interests are in natural language processing, counter–influence operations, and applications of machine learning to cybersecurity. Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory in 2019, VanDam researched disinformation detection at Michigan State University. In 2018, she received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining for her paper on detecting compromised accounts on Twitter. VanDam earned a BA degree in Spanish literature from Kalamazoo College in 2008, and an MS degree and a PhD degree in computer science from Michigan State University in 2012 and 2019, respectively.
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BLL-110 Mackinac Hall
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This event was added to the calendar by Shelby Harrison (harshelb@gvsu.edu) on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 and was last updated on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 8:43 a.m.
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