Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Cleveland State

CSU professors Anup Kumar and Richard Perloff recently published an article in Communication and Change examining how generative AI is transforming newsrooms and affecting the foundational journalistic processes of gatekeeping and agenda-setting. The authors propose a new framework for understanding these developments.

Dr. Adam Voight, Director of Cleveland State University’s Center for Urban Education, is helping high school students across Ohio bring youth voice into one of the state’s most urgent education policy conversations: how schools should respond to artificial intelligence.

Cleveland State University College of Law is working with AltaClaro to offer students a Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering for Lawyers certificate program. The program covers topics including verification and professional judgment for AI-assisted legal workflows as well as AI’s limitations in the legal practice.

Dr. Joanne Goodell, director of Levin College's School of Education, recently co-wrote an opinion piece for Crain's Cleveland Business about how artificial intelligence (A.I.) is prompting higher education to evolve.

Powered by artificial intelligence, she is the University’s first fully autonomous virtual engagement officer who will connect with alumni, donors and supporters in new, highly personalized ways. CSU is one of the first universities nationwide to pioneer this shift in operations in partnership with Givzey, a Boston-based digital fundraising and engagement company.

Criminology Assistant Professor Rachel Lovell's research was recently published in the Journal of Criminal Justice. Her work focused on teaching a computer to detect innuendo (or signaling) about a victim's credibility in incident reports of rape. The study explored if the words expressed or not expressed, intentionally or not, influenced case progression and outcomes.

Cleveland State University was awarded a grant for $600,000 to aid in Mobilizing the Emerging Diverse AI Talent (MEDAL) through Design and Automated Control of Automated Scientific Laboratories.

Dr. Ye Zhu, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received $139,534 to develop trainings and programs to build the cybersecurity workforce in the US. The project, titled “Revitalize Auto Industry: Elevating Automotive Workforce Excellence through Cybersecurity and AI Innovation,” is led by Dr. Huirong Fu of Oakland University and funded via the National Security Agency’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program.

Professor Brian Ray led an interdisciplinary team of AI experts at the first annual EU AI Act Grand Challenge hosted by St. Gallen University in July 2022. Ray's team -- AI in the Public Interest or AIPI -- included Erman Ayday (CWRU Engineering), Erika George (Utah Law), Anisa Halimi (IBM Ireland), Charles Helleputte (Squire Sanders France/Belgium) and Hadrien Pouget (Carnegie Endowment).