A recent University of Central Arkansas graduate captured second place in the 2022 DART Annual Conference undergraduate poster competition.
Aaron Moody recently captured second place in the 2022 DART Annual Conference undergraduate poster competition.
Aaron Moody, who is now pursuing a master’s degree in computer science at UCA, won the award at the event held in Little Rock in May.
Moody’s poster outlined his on-going research into using artificial intelligence to summarize text-based comments, such as those used in online product reviews.
“The poster shows how I can take online reviews and summarize them all into concise statements,” Moody said. “These concise statements will allow users to better understand what they’re looking at without spending hours and hours reading countless reviews.”
Moody’s work is supported by a statewide National Science Foundation grant as part of the DART project (Award #1946391). Short for Data Analytics that are Robust & Trusted, DART operates as a multi-institution, multi-disciplinary data science research center. Faculty and students from across the state work together on targeted problems that are important to the statewide research community as well as to the Arkansas economy.
Moody partnered with Chenyi Hu, a professor in the UCA Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and fellow graduate student Makenzie Spurling as well as researchers from Texas Tech University. The team’s research findings will be published in a paper at the upcoming International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems in Milan, Italy, later this summer.
Moody earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UCA in May 2022, graduating with magna cum laude honors.
By Philip Allison
