Announcements

EAGER: A Graph Analytics Approach to Understanding Leakage Patterns in Information Espionage
Protecting Valuable American Research from Interference
In today’s competitive global environment, there is growing concern that valuable discoveries funded by U.S. taxpayers may be subject to malign foreign interference or misappropriation. This project develops new tools and techniques to help universities and research agencies better understand when and how such transfers of knowledge might occur.
This project constructs a knowledge graph that connects data from grants, publications, patents, and institutional affiliations over time. Within this graph, it defines and detects leakage paths — chains of connections that suggest research may have moved outside authorized channels. The system will be able to score and explain these patterns, and simulation will be used to improve the models and discover new risk indicators.
We plan to share the final product as an open-source toolkit.

The Second International Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC)
Improving Scientific Communication with AI
Organized by ADIL’s Subhasis Dasgupta, the Second International Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC) aims to apply the full power of artificial intelligence to communication between scientific teams. The conference will bring together scientists, technologists, AI researchers, ethicists, and software developers to discuss how AI-driven techniques can enhance, transform, and secure scientific discourse. Save the date — the conference meets September 15-18 2025 in Chicago!
Note that this conference is colocated with the 21st IEEE e-Science 2025 conference.

NOURISH Website Launched
Fresh Food, Fresh Opportunities
24 million Americans live in food deserts where ultraprocessed foods are abundant and fresh food is scarce, giving rise to large health disparities in diabetes and related cardiometabolic diseases.
NOURISH app provides current and future small business owners with access to:
- Chat-based interface available in multiple languages
- Loan and grant information
- Online maps that optimize the placement of fresh food outlets for foot traffic
- Help with navigating the convoluted business permitting process
- AI-enabled guidance on affordable ways to locally source fresh ingredients

Demonstrating AWESOME
A Tri-Store Data System for Multi-Model Analytics
Modern data science applications increasingly use heterogeneous data sources and analytics, leading to growing interest in polystore systems. Instead of a general-purpose polystore system, we present AWESOME (Analytics WorkbEnch for SOcial MEdia), a cutting-edge specialized “tri-store” system tailored to analytics workloads spanning relational, graph, and text data. AWESOME features a powerful domain-specific language, ADIL, which empowers users to concisely express complex applications involving cross-DBMSs queries, text and graph analytical functions, and transformations across the three data types. By incorporating a learned optimizer, it intelligently selects the optimal platform for analytical functions and the most efficient data stores for intermediate processing, which eliminates the need for users to grapple with intricate coding or complex decision-making in heterogeneous data environments.