Neeley Pate Named Finalist for the 2026 NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award
Pate has been named a National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Collegiate Award finalist; one of 63 applicants across the nation that received this distinction.
The AiC Collegiate Award, “honors the outstanding computing accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate students in the AiC Community. The award recognizes technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.”
https://www.aspirations.org/award-programs/aic-collegiate-award
Her application outlined the work ROC HCI has done to mitigate misinformed beliefs through specialized LLM interventions, jointly conducted by herself, Adiba Proma, and other collaborators. The work finds corrective LLM interventions can cause both belief and network change, shifting both towards ground truths, while incorporating guardrails and personalization. The work has implications for future social media moderation design and curbing misinformation.