Aaron Brantly, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and David Hicks, a professor in the School of Education, are serving as co-principal Investigators on “Exploring the Impact of Human-AI Collaboration on Open Source Intelligence Investigations of Social Media Disinformation.” 

Adrienne Ivory, an associate professor in the School of Communication, is one of two co-principal investigators on “Fast Deployment of AI-based Disinformation Detector.” 

These are two of seven transdisciplinary projects funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.  

The principal investigators for the projects are Kurt Luther, Computer Science, and Ruoxi Jia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, respectively.