Selected Paper Sessions

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Chair: Andrea Greco (AI Alliance Membership and Growth Leader, IBM)

Andrew Hoh (President & Co-Founder, LastMile AI), “Building Transparency and Safeguards into AI Agents”
Stephen Keeley (Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences, Fordham), “A New Tool for Unboxing the Deep Neural Network”
Laura Globig (Postdoctoral researcher and cognitive neuroscientist, NYU), “Artificial Intelligence Circumvents Identity-Driven Biases in Source Selection during Information-Seeking”
Yilu Zhou (Associate Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham): “Can Chat GPT Protect Children from Age-Inappropriate Apps? A Study on Maturity Rating with Multimodal LLMs”

Chair: Holly Curtis (Assistant Provost for Corporate Relations, Fordham)

Celia Fisher (Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics, Professor of Psychology, Fordham), “Reimagining Research Ethics for the Age of Digital Wearables: Risks, Power, and Responsibility”
Dinesh Verma (Fellow, IBM) and Mohamed Rahouti (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Fordham), “NLIP: Enabling Responsible, Secure, and Interoperable AI Agent Communication”
Giacomo Santangelo (Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Fordham), “The 'AI Externality-Equity Nexus:' When Market Failures Become Justice Failures”
Lenka Molins (Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute), “AI Audits and Accountability: The Legal Approaches across Jurisdictions and their Shortcomings”

Chair: Robert Hume (Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Fordham)

Kellie Owens (Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine), “Managing a ‘Responsibility Vacuum’ in AI Monitoring and Governance in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study”
R.P. Raghupathi (Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham) and Leonard Chiang (Graduate Student, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Explainability in Deep Learning in Healthcare and Medicine: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?”
Jie Ren (Associate Professor of ITO, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Unveiling Gender Dynamics for Mental Health Posts in Social Media and Generative Artificial Intelligence”
Zachary Griffen (Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Grossman School of Medicine), “Governance from Below: How to Regulate AI When Nobody’s Watching”

Chair: Ann Gaylin (Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Arts and Sciences, Fordham)

Mandanna Appanderanda Nanaiah (Head of Responsible AI, Americas, Infosys), “Scaling Trust: How to Operationalize Responsible AI Across the Enterprise”
Aimee Rinehart (Founder, Frontier Collective), “Ownership, Not Just Happy Talk: Co-Designing a Participatory Large Language Model for Journalism”
Kuan-Tsae Huang (Chair Professor, Asia University, Taiwan), “Sovereign AI and Autonomous Uncrewed Vehicles in Secure High-Tech Manufacturing”
Su-Je Cho (Professor, Graduate School of Education, Fordham), “Beyond the Classroom: How AI Expands Access to Language Learning”
Wenqi Wei (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Fordham), “Navigating Organizational Trade-offs among Quality, Privacy, and Security in AI Risk Management – A Case Study in Code Generation Large Language Models”

Chair: Joe Landau (Dean, School of Law, Fordham University)

Adam Pingel (IBM Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance), “AI, Law, and Responsibility – Navigating Risks and Opportunities in the Legal Space”
Deborah Denno (Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, School of Law, Fordham), “Neuroscience: The Foundation of Artificial Intelligence”
Courtney Cox (Associate Professor, School of Law, Fordham), “Hardwiring Hercules”
Mark Conrad (Professor, Law and Ethics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “The New California, New York and Tennessee Digital Replica Laws and Free Speech: First Amendment Conflict with the Right of Publicity?”
Aditya Saharia (Professor of Information Systems, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Productivity, Displacement, and the Global Ethics of Deployment”