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TRAILS: Trustworthy AI in Law & Society

GW to Co-Lead a New $20 million NSF AI Institute 

 

The George Washington University is co-leading a multi-institutional effort supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will develop new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies designed to promote trust and mitigate risks, while simultaneously empowering and educating the public. The NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) unites specialists in AI and machine learning with systems engineers, social scientists, legal scholars, educators, and public policy experts. The multidisciplinary team will work with impacted communities, private industry, and the federal government to determine how to evaluate trust in AI, how to develop technical solutions and processes for AI that can be trusted, and which policy models best create and sustain trust. David Broniatowski, an associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering at GW, is the lead principal investigator of TRAILS at GW.

 

The new institute is expected to transform the practice of AI by encouraging new innovations that foreground ethics, human rights, and input and feedback from communities whose voices have previously been marginalized. The NSF, in collaboration with government agencies and private sector leaders, has now invested close to half a billion dollars in the AI institutes ecosystem—an investment that expands a collaborative AI research network into almost every U.S. state.

 

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Professor Balaras Elected ASME Fellow

September 1, 2023

Congratulations to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Elias Balaras on being elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers!

Dr. Plesniak to Co-Chair Largest Conference in Fluid Dynamics

August 31, 2023

We are excited to announce that Dr. Michael Plesniak will co-chair the 2023 meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics!

Designing Next-generation Computing Architectures

August 31, 2023

In Spring 2023, Professor Ahmed Louri was awarded three new National Science Foundation awards to continue researching and designing next-generation computing architectures.

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THE STATE OF

ENGINEERING for women

 

GW Engineering beats the national average for women pursuing engineering degrees. 

24.5%
 

National Average,
undergraduate women
in engineering
source: ASEE 2020
Engineering By
The Numbers 
)

45%
 

Women in the GW Engineering
Undergraduate class 
of 2026
(source: GW Engineering)

28%
 

National Average, graduate women in engineering,
source: ASEE 2020 Engineering By The Numbers)

34%
 

Women enrolled as GW Engineering On-Campus graduate students (source: GW Engineering Data)