Coding Compassionate AI
June 24, 2025
Snigdha Chaturvedi is developing AI systems with empathy and social awareness to understand the nuances of human language.
Computer Science
RUNC: Tianlong Chen
June 11, 2025
Tianlong Chen creates AI tools to improve biological science and health care.
Robot Reboot
October 9, 2024
Lilly Nekervis is modifying a robot dog to be a guide for people who are visually impaired.
Blueprints for Preservation
April 23, 2024
Lauren Leve and Jim Mahaney partner with Nepalese locals to bring religious heritage sites to life through interviews and digital tools.
Protecting Your Texts
April 17, 2024
Saba Eskandarian designs online messaging applications using cryptography, allowing users to report abusive content without compromising their privacy.
RUNC: Snigdha Chaturvedi
July 27, 2022
Snigdha Chaturvedi studies language that connects society and computers.
Connecting Humans and Computers
November 19, 2021
For most of her life, Ayana Monroe has been fascinated by how people and computers connect — a field called human-computer interaction. Now, as a UNC-Chapel Hill junior and Chancellor’s Science Scholar, she engages in research to improve how we use technology to acquire information. She wants to teach the next generation to do the same.
The Sanctity of Cherokee
November 15, 2021
As a result of systemic oppression, there are fewer than 200 native Cherokee speakers in North Carolina. To keep the language alive and pass it to the next generation, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher and Eastern Band Cherokeean citizen Benjamin Frey has teamed up with computer scientists Mohit Bansal and Shiyue Zhang to create a new translation model and grow the literary library of works available in Cherokee.