Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  Members of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and invited guests gathered at the second annual CCI Symposium April 17 to 18, 2023, in Richmond, VA. Dr. Luiz DaSilva , executive director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, presented the State of CCI speech at the 2022 CCI Symposium. In his speech, Dr. Silva mentioned the selected proposals for the “Securing Interactions between Humans and Machines” call this year. In a later workshop, funded projects from Virginia universities presented a short briefing on their projects . As the PI of one of the projects, I presented our research work on counter human smuggling. This is a collaborative work between  Dr. Faryaneh Poursardar ,  Dr. Vikas Ashok   from ODU CS, and  Dr. Erika Frydenlund   from  VMASC . Intentional misinformation and/or disinformation can play a large part in humanitarian crises involving human smuggling and trafficking. Human smugglers (also known as coyotes on the U.S. southern border)...