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iSchool to present research at TPRC 2025

iSchool faculty, staff, and students will participate in the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC 2025), which will be held from September 18–20 in Washington, DC.

iSchool participation includes:

Assistant Professor Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo served on the 2024-2025 TPRC Program Committee and chaired the Student Paper Awards Committee. At the conference, she will moderate the session, "AI, Privacy, and Trust," and serve as a panelist for the panel discussion, "Governing Generative AI," which she also co-organized.

Informatics PhD student Isaac Joy will present the paper, "Modeling Elements of Copyright with Large Language Models," co-authored with Sanfilippo.

Informatics PhD student Kyra Milan Abrams will present the paper, "Privatization and the Evolution of Social Norms Regarding Large Language Models," co-authored with Sanfilippo and PhD student Eryclis Rodrigues Bezerra Silva.

Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou (PhD '25), assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will present the paper, "A Comprehensive Institutional Analysis of Software Accessibility Laws," co-authored with Sanfilippo and Informatics PhD student Justin Eric Chen.

Zhou will present the paper, "Examining Generative AI Policies in Japanese Universities: A Qualitative Perspective."

PhD student Mubarak Raji will present the paper, "Deepfakes and Data Protection: Evaluating the Effectiveness of African Privacy Laws in the Age of AI," co-authored with PhD student Valentine Ugwuoke and Associate Professor Masooda Bashir. Raji will also participate in the Graduate Student Workshop.

Anita Nikolich, director of research and technology innovation and research scientist, is a co-author on the paper, "Are Research and Education Networks Critical?"

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