{"id":5,"date":"2018-05-02T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aiem\/ai-emerging-media\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:51:58","slug":"ai-emerging-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aiem\/","title":{"rendered":"About AIEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mission of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media (AIEM)\u00a0<\/strong>research group at Boston University is to conduct research and foster education in areas related to artificial intelligence and emerging media. We explore and create techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to interpret emerging media, their role in mass and interpersonal communication, and understand the human and automated processes by which emerging media are developed, marketed, shaped and reshaped by users.<\/p>\n

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The AIEM group\u2019s weekly research meetings are open to colleagues and students. If you are interested in joining BU AIEM, please contact the\u00a0AIEM professors<\/span><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BU AIEM is housed in the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering<\/a> and is part of BU’s Artificial Intelligence (AIR) Initiative. Our team members are affiliated with various colleges and departments throughout Boston University, including the College of Arts and Sciences (Department of Computer Science), the College of Communication (Division of Emerging Media), and the College of Engineering (Department of Computer Engineering).<\/p>\n

BU AIEM started with a Hariri Institute incubator research award in June 2016 led by\u00a0Lei Guo<\/span><\/a>. Projects with\u00a0Prakash Ishwar,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Margrit Betke<\/span><\/a>, and collaborators led to first publications on\u00a0Big Social Data Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dynamic Allocation of Crowd Contributions for Sentiment Analysis during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

In mid 2018, BU AIEM has proudly graduated its first Ph.D. student, Mehrnoosh Sameki, celebrated a Google Research Award in the \u201cInformation Retrieval and Real Time Content\u201d category, and welcomed a new faculty team member,\u00a0Derry Wijaya.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0In the same year, the collaboration among AIEM faculty and students led to $1 million\u00a0NSF grant<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to address emerging media representation and effects.<\/p>\n

BU AIEM is currently working on a project to examine international news coverage of COVID-19 and its impact. We meet every week via ZOOM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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