INFO PhD student spends summer with LAS and SCADS Conference, work spurs $130,000 LAS grant
Joshua Paup [INFO PhD student] spent his summer at theÌý at North Carolina State's Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. Over an 8-week period, Paup collaborated with fellow academics, industry, and government partners to tackle the grand challenge problem of generating tailored daily reports (TLDRs) for knowledge workers within the U.S. Intelligence Community. Some of the projects he engaged with included identifying pain points within intelligence analyst workflows for Large Learning Models (LLM) and recommender systems interventions and evaluating the performance of recommender system outputs.Ìý
Paup’s work from this summer program later informed the project,"Capture and Recommendation of Analysis Workflows for AI." Paup and Professor Robin Burke were awarded $130,000 from the LAS at NC State for 2026. The project explores information seeking and analysis workflows through a collaboration with the students and faculty in the JRNL 4572/5572 News Corps capstone course here at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder!. The goal is to build tools to capture and represent analytic activities and generalize them into workflows that can be shared with others performing similar tasks and monitored by more experienced managers. The research team will focus particularly on AI tools since norms around their use are not well-established.