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Kurt Luther

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Dr. Kurt Luther is an associate professor of computer science and a founding faculty member of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus near Washington, D.C. He is also the associate director for research in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, senior advisor for OSINT at the National Security Institute, and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History. His research interests include crowdsourcing, social computing, and human-AI collaboration. He currently serves on the AAAI HCOMP Steering Committee and the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. He is a member of AAAI and a senior member of ACM. His research has been funded by CCI, DOD, Google, NEH, NHPRC, NIH, and NSF (including a CAREER Award); and featured by The Atlantic, CNN, The History Channel, NPR, Smithsonian, and TIME. Previously, Dr. Luther was a postdoctoral fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in human-centered computing from Georgia Tech and his B.S. in computer graphics technology from Purdue University. He also interned at IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and YouTube/Google.