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EPIC Lab receives $2M NSF grant to build tools for criminal justice big datasets

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Originally posted on EECS NEWS: Submitted by Magdalene L. Crowley on September 7, 2021 – 1:55pm EPIC Lab receives $2M NSF grant to build tools for criminal justice big datasets CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein, and Assistant Profs. Aditya Parmeswaran and Sarah Chasins, are among the principal investigators of a new lab that has just received a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation to make big datasets used by the criminal justice system more accessible to non-technical researchers. The Effective Programming, Interaction, and Computation with Data (EPIC) Lab will create tools that utilize machine learning, program synthesis, and human-centered design, to improve the ability of public defenders, investigators and paralegals to research police misconduct, judicial decision-making, and related issues, for their…