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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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Championing Student Success: Jason Zara Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

March 25, 2024

In a natural evolution of the leadership roles BME professor Jason Zara has held at both the university and school levels, he stepped into the new position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs on March 1.

GW Hosts Special Live Performance of Science Friday Radio Show

March 25, 2024

GW partnered with WAMU to host a unique opportunity for our community to catch a peak behind the curtain of the national radio show, Science Friday, at a special live performance on March 23.

Developing a National Capability for Integrated Water Resource Management

March 22, 2024

For her expertise in hydrology and hydrometeorology modeling, CEE associate professor Leila Farhadi was nominated to attend the second Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling workshop held in Fall 2023.

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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)