by Yujin Lee | Oct 7, 2025
“What happens when a city asks ‘Should we’ before ‘Can we?’ with AI?” In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) can bring unprecedented efficiency to cities, the real challenge isn’t just about how fast governments can adopt new tools but whether they do so in ways...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 16, 2025
Craig Scott (PI), Keri Stephens (Co-PI) and Mir Rabby (Co-PI, and TIPI graduate research assistant) received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As automated decision-making through algorithmic systems is...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 15, 2025
The Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) is thrilled to announce the recipients of our Graduate Student Research Fellowships for Spring 2025. We have funded six exceptional projects at the end of the last spring semester that delve into the complex...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 20, 2024
TIPI is going to the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 110th Annual Convention By TIPI Staff, 9/20/2024 OVERVIEW The National Communication Association (NCA) is hosting it’s 110th Annual Convention: Communication for Greater Regard from November...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 23, 2024
New White Paper Offers Ethical Guidelines for Procurement and Management of Smart City Technologies By Brad Limov, 8/23/2024 OVERVIEW The rapid advancement of smart city technologies, particularly the widespread deployment of camera-based surveillance systems, has...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 3, 2024
Strengthening Community Resilience: Connecting Online and Offline Networks By Jiayu Sun, Keri K. Stephens, Tara Tasuji, Kasey Faust & Sergio Castellanos SUMMARY An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (including TIPI...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 22, 2023
Human-AI Teaming During an Ongoing Disaster BY TARA TASUJI & KERI K. STEPHENS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | JUL 22, 2023 Bringing research into the real world… of baseball In 2023, CBS Austin, Texas reported on a system being tested during the Round Rock...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 1, 2023
Summary There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk: they are designed as regulation and planning tools. In an effort to understand how flood maps can more accurately show and communicate the changing nature of...
by Leo Cao | Jun 27, 2023
This case studies series is part of the research project Being Watched: Embedding Ethics in Public Cameras supported by Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge. Two workshops that utilized the case studies have been presented by the TIPI team at ICEGOV 2022 and MozFest...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 20, 2023
Summary A recent study in Risk Analysis by researchers at the Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) found that a shared sense of duty around seeking flood information — if your family or community thinks it’s important to do, so will you — is the most...
