AI Chatbot Project Team
Dr. Yu-Che Chen (picture center) at the School of Public Administration at the College of Public Affairs and Community Service is the Principal Investigator to lead the interdisciplinary team. Dr. Chun-Hua Tsai (right) at the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the College of Information Science and Technology and Dr. Eduardo Zendejas, J.D. (left) at the Tribal Management and Emergency Service program in the School of Public Administration are the Co-PIs. All project team members are faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Project Description
This NSF grant is a three-year award of $750,000 from Oct 2023 to September 2026. This award is from the NSF’s Design Accountable Software System program to advance our knowledge about the complex relationships between software systems and their social contexts. This project aims to tackle the distinct software accountability challenges arising from the unique governance structures, cultures, and technological conditions of tribal nations, as well as their intricate relations with other sovereign entities. This project develops and implements a multi-level participatory design framework and an AI chatbot for emergency management.
Digital Equity in Advanced Computing Cyberinfrastructure
Project Team
Dr. Yu-Che Chen at the School of Public Administration at the College of Public Affairs and Community Service is the Principal Investigator to lead the interdisciplinary team. Dr. Xiaoyue (Zoe) Cheng, the Project Co-PI, is at the Department of Mathematics at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Both Drs. Chen and Cheng work for the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Co-PI Dr. Rich Knepper is the Director of the Center for Advanced Computing at Cornell University.
Project Description
The title of this project is “Data-Enabled Pathways to Equity in Cyberinfrastructure Utilization for Scientific Discovery.” This project has three aims: (a) understanding and defining equity in the utilization of advanced computing resources provided by cyberinfrastructure; (b) studying and designing pathways to equity in cyberinfrastructure utilization; and (c) developing and implementing a knowledge portal featuring an interactive data platform for equity in cyberinfrastructure utilization and pathways to achieve it.