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  1. 2026
  2. Publication

    Nine papers accepted at seven NeurIPS 2026 workshops, on auditing agent and AI evaluations, peer review in the age of AI, supervising teams of LLM agents, social simulation and mathematical reasoning, including Fateme Mazdarani's study of mathematical creativity in formal proof generation (MATH-AI).

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  3. Publication

    Three papers from the NSF AIMing project will appear at MathNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest: the NaturalPRISM premise-retrieval benchmark, a context ablation for conjecture generation, and robust procedural mathematical reasoning.

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  4. Publication

    Qualification by Calibration, a readable benchmark for admitting language models to human-computation tasks, is presented at HCOMP 2026 in Alexandria, VA.

  5. Publication

    Perspective article AI Consciousness? Attribution and Cognitive Biases accepted in Frontiers in Psychology.

  6. Publication

    Sycophantic Metacognition, on the Dunning-Kruger effect in LLM self-assessment, is presented as a full paper at ACM CUI 2026 in Bremen, Germany.

  7. Publication

    Cecilia Delgado Solorzano presents our Navy-funded study of narrow vs. general-purpose AI models for underwater search and rescue at ICECET 2026 in Rome.

  8. Publication

    Wangfan Li's Supervisory Control Theory for LLM Revision is published at the inaugural ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026).

  9. Book

    The director's second book, Human-Centered Automation, is published by CRC Press / Taylor & Francis.

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  10. Publication

    Fateme Mazdarani's Worker-Centered AI: Transparent Explanations for Trustworthy Task Recommendation in Crowd Work appears at IEEE CAI 2026 in Granada.

  11. People

    Colt Doster joins the lab as a Ph.D. student.

  12. People

    Weber Whelan presents the departmental honors thesis Fermi-LLM: An LLM Service for Performing Fermi-LAT Data Analysis.

  13. Event

    The lab presents three extended abstracts at ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona, where Dr. Toxtli serves as Associate Chair.

  14. People

    Krishna Panthi successfully defends the M.S. thesis on AquaCrop-Richards crop simulation and deep reinforcement learning for irrigation, co-chaired with Dr. Vidya Samadi.

  15. Event

    Dr. Toxtli and two Ph.D. students take part in the NSF NRT+ Summit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  16. Publication

    Wangfan Li presents Requirement Bot at ACM SAC 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

  17. Funding

    New U.S. Army project through Clemson's VIPR-GS center: a resilient network security architecture for next-generation military ground vehicles (Co-PI).

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  18. Publication

    Expanding the Roster, a needs assessment for autonomous teammates in hazardous environments, appears at IEEE CogSIMA 2026.

  19. Publication

    Open-access book chapter Empowering the Crowd: Measuring the Impact of AI-Driven Tools on Crowdwork published by IntechOpen.

  20. Funding

    Savannah River National Laboratory award for physics-informed deep learning across the Savannah River Basin, with Dr. Vidya Samadi.

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  21. 2025
  22. Event

    Cecilia Delgado Solorzano and Wangfan Li join Dr. Toxtli at the NSF NRT+ Summit at Cleveland State University.

  23. Book

    Book Human-AI Empowerment: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, the framework behind the lab's name, is published by Chapman & Hall/CRC.

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  24. People

    Three Ph.D. students join the lab in 2025: Austin LaHue (HCC), Fateme Mazdarani (CS) and Christopher Kalahiki (CS).

  25. Funding

    NASA FERMI-LLM project begins (Fermi Guest Investigator Program; Co-PI with Dr. Marco Ajello).

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  26. Funding

    NSF SaTC 2.0 award Tracking the Usability of Secure Authentication Systems (Co-PI with Dr. Kelly Caine).

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  27. Publication

    Working in a Heartbeat: Considerations for AI Teammates in Search and Rescue Teams published in the Proceedings of HFES 2025.

  28. Talk

    Invited talk LLMs and Health Care for high-school computer science teachers at the SC EPSCoR Research Experience for Teachers program, College of Charleston.

  29. Publication

    Two papers at IEEE CAI 2025 in Santa Clara: AI for Becoming Fluent and Human Oversight Over Autonomous Task Execution in Sandbox Environments.

  30. Publication

    Customer Journey Mapping with Multimodal Large Language Models appears at The Web Conference 2025 (LLM for E-commerce), Sydney.

  31. Event

    Clemson hosts the NSF NRT+ Summit; Dr. Toxtli serves on the host team and the Entrepreneurship in Academia panel.

  32. Publication

    AI-Powered Comment Triage for Efficient Collaboration and Feedback Management is presented at ACM SAC 2025 in Sicily.

  33. 2024
  34. Funding

    NSF HCC: Small award on generative AI for end-user driven creative workforces begins (Co-PI with Dr. Guo Freeman).

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  35. Publication

    A Culturally-Aware AI Tool for Crowdworkers (CultureFit) appears at ACM CSCW 2024 in San José, Costa Rica.

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  36. Award

    Cecilia Delgado Solorzano's A Study of LLM-Powered Student Query Support, developed with Clemson University Libraries, receives the Best Paper Award at ACM MexIHC 2024.

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  37. Publication

    Two papers at MexIHC 2024: the Wellbot workplace assistant and LLM-powered student query support (LibRef).

  38. Funding

    The lab is awarded NSF AIMing: Interactive Conjecture Proving, led by Dr. Toxtli as PI.

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  39. Publication

    Two papers by Cecilia Delgado Solorzano at IEEE SmartData 2024 in Copenhagen, on syllogistic reasoning in LLMs and AI language tools in crowdsourcing.

  40. Publication

    Four lab papers at CSCE 2024 in Las Vegas, including ReActIn and LLM-generated BPMN workflows for robotic process automation.

  41. Event

    Four lab demos at ACM CHIWORK 2024 in Newcastle, UK: SmartMonitor, VirtuaScreens, LLM task-management agents and sandboxed human oversight. Dr. Toxtli serves as Web Chair.

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  42. Service

    Dr. Toxtli serves as Tutorials Chair of AAAI ICWSM 2024 in Buffalo, NY.

  43. People

    Dmitry Lukyanov defends the M.S. thesis Heterogeneous Federated Learning at Scale.

  44. Publication

    Work on deep learning for flood image segmentation is presented at the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna.

  45. 2023
  46. Event

    The lab co-organizes the workshop Conceptualizing Indigeneity in Social Computing at ACM CSCW 2023 in Minneapolis, with a workshop paper by Cecilia Delgado Solorzano.

  47. Funding

    NSF Future of Work award on AI and mixed reality for aviation inspection begins (Co-PI with Dr. Anand Gramopadhye).

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  48. Talk

    Dr. Toxtli joins the Clemson Research Symposium panel ChatGPT Use in Higher Education.

  49. Funding

    U.S. Navy project on human-autonomy teaming in underwater environments begins (Co-PI with Dr. Nathan McNeese).

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  50. Event

    New course Human-Centered AI developed for Clemson's School of Computing; an online Coursera edition follows in 2025.

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  51. 2022
  52. Event

    The Human-AI Empowerment Lab is founded in the Human-Centered Computing Division of Clemson University's School of Computing.