Leveraging CMU’s world-class thought leadership and PwC’s strategic client-engagement expertise, the Center is dedicated to researching, developing and testing next-generation technological solutions to help solve challenges related to critical areas in our rapidly changing digital landscape.
Please see the most up to date list of funded projects below (*denotes current active project).
2023 Funded Projects
2022 Funded Projects
*Agile AI/ML Engineering - Thomas Scanlon (CMU)
*Intelligent Digital Transformation - Alan Scheller-Wolf (Tepper), Sunder Kekre (Tepper), Sham Kekre (Tepper)
Measuring the Energy and Cost Implications of Working from Home - Sameer Badlani (Heinz Adjunct)
*Robust and Fair AI Systems in Dynamic Environments - Zachary Lipton (Machine Learning), Hoda Heidari (Machine Learning), Andrej Risteski (Machine Learning), David Childers (Tepper)
*Using Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection in General- and Sub-ledger Bookkeeping Data - Leman Akoglu (Heinz), Pierre Liang (Tepper)
2021 Funded Projects
Cloud Benchmarking and Maturity Model - Chris Herr (Heinz)
Efficient AI-Enhanced Auditing for Financial Statement Audits with Statistical Guarantees - Pierre Liang (Tepper), Zachary Lipton (Machine Learning), Aaditya Ramdas (Statistics)
Evidence Matching - Scalable Similarity Search with Incomplete Data - George Chen (Heinz)
2020 Funded Projects
Anomaly Detection of Large Volume Transactional Data - Pierre Liang (Tepper)
Auditing for Quality and Fairness when Predictions Become Policies - Zachary Lipton (Machine Learning), Alexandra Chouldechova (Heinz), Matthew Fredrikson (Computer Science)
Communication Skills Training for VR - Jessica Hammer (HCII), Kim Hyatt (Heinz), Geoff Kaufman (HCII)
Customization of Voice Profiling Technology for Paralinguistic Analysis of Generic Call Center Data - Richard Stern (ECE), Alexander Rudnicky (LTI)
Digital Crime Fighters - Hai Wang (Heinz), Chris Labash (Heinz)
GL Anomaly Detection Applications and Graph - Pierre Liang (Tepper), Leman Akoglu (Heinz)
RegTech Gap Analysis - Anatole Gershman (LTI)
Summer Research Program - various CMU Faculty Advisors
The Impact of AI on Corporate Performance and Labor Demand: Deriving Strategic Corporate Information from Economic Data - Lee Branstetter (Heinz)
2019 Funded Projects
Analytics Maturity Model for Selected Specific Domains, Part 2 - Peter Chen (Heinz)
Authorship Attribution, Part 2 - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Childhood Food Insecurity Initiative - Timothy Zak (Heinz)
Social Cohesion, Employee Advancement, and Retention - Anita Woolley (Tepper), Rosalind Chow (Tepper), David Krackhardt (Heinz), Zachary Lipton (Machine Learning)
2018 Funded Projects
Applying AI to Auditing - Eduard Hovy (LTI), Pierre Liang (Tepper), Sunder Kekre (Tepper)
CMU Driver Behavioral Facial Awareness System - Marios Savvides (ECE)
Data Collection of Voice-Based Deception Data in Engineered and Controlled Lab Environments - Rita Singh (LTI)
Detecting Accounting Abnormalities in General Ledger Detail Reports - Leman Akoglu (Heinz), Pierre Liang (Tepper)
Early Detection of Risk from Streaming Media Documents - Leman Akoglu (Heinz)
Entity ID and Linkage - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Healthcare Analysis, Part 2 - David Krackhardt (Heinz)
Information Extraction from Commercial Lease Documents, Part 3 - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Smart Pricing - Pricing Sensitivity - Kannan Srinivasan (Tepper), Hui Li (Tepper)
2017 Funded Projects
A Framework for Strategy Management of RegTech Technologies - Sunder Kekre (Tepper), Sham Kekre (Tepper)
An IoT Testbed for the PwC Center - Bruno Sinopoli (ECE)
Analysis of Risk in Complex Vendor Networks - George Chen (Heinz)
Analytics Maturity Model - Peter Chen (Heinz)
Authorship Attribution - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Community Detection Analysis in Healthcare - David Krackhardt (Heinz)
Community Trust and Sentiment Analysis - Jamie Callan (LTI)
Deriving Enhanced Biometric Information From the Human Voice to Assist Forensic Analysis - Rita Singh (LTI), Alexander Rudnicky (LTI)
Exploring Privacy and Security Risks in Blockchain Ecosystems - Nicolas Christin (ISR)
Fraud Analytics: Description, Sense-Making, and Detection - Leman Akoglu (Heinz)
Information Extraction from Commercial Lease Documents - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Information Extraction from Commercial Lease Documents, Part 2 - Eduard Hovy (LTI)
Maturity Model Framework for Blockchain Ecosystems - Nicolas Christin (ISR)
Resilience Analysis and Design of IoT-based Smart Infrastructures - Bruno Sinopoli (ECE), Anthony Rowe (ECE), Yuvraj Agarwal (ISR)
Understanding the Public's Perception of Public Safety and Police Departments - Jamie Callan (LTI)