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Unmasking Human Trafficking: New AI Research Reveals Hidden Recruitment Networks
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BALTIMORE, MD, May 24, 2025 – Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales; however, new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is turning its attention to where trafficking truly begins – recruitment. Using machine learning to analyze millions of online ads, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered patterns that link deceptive job offers to sex trafficking networks. By mapping the connections between recruitment and sales locations, the study reveals a hidden supply chain – one that can now be exposed and interrupted earlier in the trafficking process.

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Why Congress May Push Back on State AI Regulations
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House Republicans proposed a 10-year pause on state rules for artificial intelligence. What that could mean for consumer protections.

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Has flying become more dangerous? We speak to a Professor of statistics and a Director of aerospace engineering
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From the Jeju Airline tragedy to the Washington DC plane and helicopter collision, it makes you wonder whether flight safety standards have dropped.

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Increasing board diversity leads to a reduced market value

Increasing board diversity leads to a reduced market value

Human Resources, November 15, 2019

In an age when many companies have stepped forward to become an advocate of board and workplace gender diversity, it turns out that one additional woman on the board results in a 2.3% decrease in the company’s market value in the US on average. This could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, according to INSEAD’s latest study on investor responses’ to board diversity.

Eyes on Detroit as airport seeks to attract non-flyers

Eyes on Detroit as airport seeks to attract non-flyers

Runway Girl Network, November 12, 2019

First it was Pittsburgh International Airport, then Tampa International Airport, and now it is Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. What do these three airports have in common? They are the only commercial airports in the United States that allow non-passengers to pass through passenger screening checkpoints and enter the post-security side of the airport.

Solutions to Increase Efficiency in the Ride-Hailing Marketplace: Researchers Recognized with INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize

Solutions to Increase Efficiency in the Ride-Hailing Marketplace: Researchers Recognized with INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize

News Release, November 7, 2019

INFORMS, the leading association for operations research (O.R.) and analytics professionals, has awarded the 2019 Daniel H. Wagner  Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research to researchers from DiDi Research America and Didi Chuxing Technology Co. for their work to increase efficiency in the ride-hailing marketplace. 

Georgia Tech’s Beril Toktay elected to board of INFORMS

News Release, October 11, 2019

CATONSVILLE, MD, October 11, 2019 – INFORMS, the largest international association of operations research (O.R.) and analytics professionals and students, announced that L. Beril Toktay has been elected to its board, where she will serve a two-year term as vice president of marketing, outreach and communication. Toktay is a professor in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

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