UMBC's Prof. Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a Trustworthy AI Fellow featured in a Computing Research Association article

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:26:53 -0400
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UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow was featured on the Computing Research Association site this month. The fellowship is intended to help scholars shape frameworks for more trustworthy AI systems through structured interdisciplinary training, collaborative research, and national visibility. She was one of nine early-career researchers who were chosen for program funded by Microsoft based on their interdisciplinary approaches to AI that are both technically sound and socially responsible.

Dr. Kotturi is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department's Human-Centered Computing Program. She designs and builds sociotechnical systems that foster worker resilience by centering relational, community-driven practices and by scaffolding peer support among people navigating precarious forms of employment and entrepreneurship. Her research combines human-computer interaction with insights from labor studies and feminist theory to develop approaches such as community-based software development that shift power in how AI systems are built and used.
The article shares her thoughts on bringing together computing and the social sciences, her current research projects, the impacts she hopes they will have on developing trustworthy AI systems, and perspectives on building better human-centered AI systems.

Read the full article on Dr. Kotturi and her selection here.