IIDS AI Faculty Fellowship Presentations
May 1 2025 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Data Hub – LIbrary 107
Yin Hong Cheah
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education, Health & Human Sciences
“Conducting Inductive Thematic Analysis with Generative AI: A Machine-Centered, Human-Oriented, or Integrated Approach?”
By applying the concept of Intelligence Augmentation (Dede et al., 2021) within social science research, this presentation showcases an iterative process of “coaching” large language models to conduct inductive thematic analysis using textual interview data, with the aim of culminating in a synthesized, recommendable workflow.
Bruce Godfrey
Associate Professor
GIS Librarian
“Opportunities to use AI to transform historical aerial photography into intelligent geospatial data”
This presentation explores initial steps to use AI to transform historical aerial photographs into data sets that support contemporary geospatial analysis. We will discuss the results of two separate approaches: one that uses a vision model, and one that combines a vision model and a text model to extract data (e.g. photo date) from two collections of photographs. We’ll explore opportunities for further development of scalable and efficient AI-enabled methodologies that are needed to transform these photographs into data sets that enable researchers and the public to more easily explore landscape histories over longer periods of time.
