Dan Lopresti

Humanity at the Heart of Problem-Solving

Annual Report 2019

Lehigh scholars are motivated by a desire to make meaningful contributions to improve lives around the world, by confronting the challenges we face as a society and by providing the insight and practical knowledge needed to overcome them.

Computer Science and Engineering Professor Dan Lopresti recently helped organize a two-day conference at the United Nations, which brought together top researchers, policy makers, social scientists and tech experts—as well as victims of exploitation—for a deep dive into the topic of using artificial intelligence in the fight against human trafficking. This work will continue on as the International Code 8.7 collaboration.

“Finding a solution to this problem is not just a technical one. It also involves social and political policy. As a researcher, if you don’t understand this, you could come up with a solution that you think is elegant mathematically but is totally irrelevant in the real world. So that’s why we wanted to be in the same room with the social scientists and the policy makers.”

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