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Matthew Lease is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, co-director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute Cosmic Origins, and leader of the university’s Good Systems Grand Challenge aimed at designing responsible AI technologies. He directs the UT Austin Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centered Computing, where his team's research spans artificial intelligence modeling, human-computer interaction design, and the development of human-in-the-loop approaches. Lease's work emphasizes the creation of novel datasets, AI model evaluation, and the application of fair AI practices to combat disinformation and bias. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he also earned his M.Sc. degree. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval. Lease has received several prestigious awards, including the 2024 Test Time Paper Award from the AAAI Conference and the 2024 Influential Paper Award from the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.
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