AI Magazine · AAAI
NSF’s National AI Institutes
AAAI’s survey of the National AI Institutes highlights AI4OPT’s Ethical AI thrust — transversal across the institute, fusing optimization and ML for ethical, socially conscious design, with her work on theoretical foundations for ethics in practice and fairness in energy networks.
Spring 2024 · p. 43
AI4OPT Newsletter · NSF AI Institute
Leading Ethical AI at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership
As lead of AI4OPT’s Ethical AI thrust, spoke at the inaugural SAIL summit of the 18 NSF and USDA-NIFA AI institutes on ethics challenges in automated decision-making, and gave a keynote at the LANL Grid Science Winter School.
January 2023
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Quantum, Classical Computing Combine to Tackle Tough Optimization Challenges
On hybrid quantum-classical systems built on trapped ions — and where the combination can significantly beat purely classical devices.
April 2022
INFORMS OR/MS Today
OR/MS Education and Quantum Computing
On preparing the operations research community for quantum computing — what it means for the OR/MS curriculum and the next generation of researchers.
August 2021
NSF · AI4OPT
NSF partnerships expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states
The $220M launch of 11 new National AI Research Institutes — including AI4OPT, the institute for AI and optimization where she leads the Ethical AI thrust.
July 2021
Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Teaching in the time of COVID-19
Highlighted for keeping students engaged through the pandemic — walking lectures on machine learning and interactive simulations on algorithmic bias.
November 2020
VOICES for Social Justice · Georgia Tech
How Do Algorithms Impact Behavior Over Time?
Expert guest on how algorithmic bias slowly shapes human behavior — echo chambers, targeted ads, data privacy, and effects on mental health and elections.
October 2020
INFORMS OR/MS Today
Keeping Bias Out of Job Applications and School Admissions
On research designing fairer selection processes — how optimization can counteract bias baked into hiring and admissions pipelines.
June 2020
Georgia Tech ISyE
DARPA Awards $9.2M Grant to Team Researching Quantum Computing
As Georgia Tech PI of the OPTIQ team, identifying the optimization problems where quantum hardware could genuinely outperform classical algorithms.
June 2020
The Uncommon Engineer · Podcast
Bias in Algorithms, with Swati Gupta
Both humans and algorithms are biased — but algorithms give us an opportunity to fix it. On proxy variables, historical data, and mathematically fairer decisions.
December 2019
Center for Machine Learning · Georgia Tech
GT Experts on the Challenges and Importance of Algorithmic Fairness
Panel on fairness in ML — presenting the mathematical foundations of bias and a call to reconsider what we build and whom it affects.
November 2019
Diginomica
Can we create better algorithms for screening candidates — and reduce hiring bias?
Coverage of work with Jad Salem: screening algorithms trained on biased real-world data do better when they explicitly account for affected groups rather than ignoring them.
August 2019
Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Meet Your Newest Job Recruiter, the Algorithm
Hiring algorithms learn bias from human data; this profile covers work to detect and correct it by making algorithms more socially conscious. Also featured by GT ISyE News.
August 2019
Future of Privacy Forum
FPF Connects Academic Stars with Privacy Pros at IAPP
Featured at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit presenting “Individual Fairness in Hindsight” — making the treatment of individuals under algorithms demonstrably fair.
May 2019
Simons Institute, Berkeley
Research Vignette: Real-Time Decision Making in Energy
On modernizing the electric grid — a robust look-ahead framework for phase balancing in distribution systems under uncertain loads.
April 2019
MIT LIDS Magazine
Looking at All the Angles
An early profile: connecting combinatorial optimization, game theory, and online learning — plus panoramic photography and ambigrams on the side.
2016
List of Media Articles
Top 10 MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, MIT Sloan, December 2025
A digital key to open the doors of Mexico City to migrants, El Pais, by Eyanir Chinea, December 2025
4 ways to use AI to improve lives, from MIT researchers, MIT Sloan, September 2025
MIT AI Experts To Know Now, New York Times, November 2024
AI Expert Spotlight — Swati Gupta, MIT Sloan, October 2024
Interview with Deep View’s Editor Ian Krietzberg: MIT Professor on achieving Fair AI, The Deep View, October 2024
NSF’s National AI Institutes, AI Magazine (AAAI), Spring 2024 — AI4OPT’s Ethical AI thrust, p. 43
Leading Ethical AI at the inaugural Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL), AI4OPT Newsletter, January 2023
Quantum, Classical Computing Combine to Tackle Tough Optimization Challenges, Georgia Tech Research Institute, April 2022
OR/MS Education and Quantum Computing, by Giacomo Nannicini, Swati Gupta, Sven Leyffer, Jim Ostrowski, Luis F. Zuluaga, INFORMS OR/MS Today, August 2021
NSF partnerships expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states, NSF, July 2021
Teaching in the time of COVID, Georgia Tech College of Engineering News, November 2020
VOICES for Social Justice Episode 5: How Do Algorithms Impact Behavior Over Time? Plus, Data Privacy, Social Media Addiction, and the Election, Constellations Center for Equity in Computing, Georgia Tech, October 2020
Keeping Bias Out of Job Applications and School Admissions, Resoundingly Human, INFORMS OR/MS Magazine, June 2020
DARPA Awards $9.2M Grant to Inter-agency Team Researching Quantum Computing, Georgia Tech ISyE News, June 2020
Bias in Algorithms with Swati Gupta, Uncommon Engineer Podcast with CoE Dean Steve McLaughlin, December 2019
GT Experts Bring Diverse Perspectives on the Challenges and Importance of Algorithmic Fairness, Center of Machine Learning at Georgia Tech, November 2019
Can we create better algorithms for screening candidates — and reduce hiring bias?, Diginomica, August 2019
Meet Your Newest Job Recruiter, the Algorithm, Georgia Tech College of Engineering News, August 2019 (also GT ISyE News, September 2019)
FPF Research Coordination Network Helps Academic Stars Connect with Private Sector Privacy Pros at IAPP, Future of Privacy Forum, May 2019
Research Vignette: Real-Time Decision Making in Energy (RTDM-E), Simons Institute News Stories, April 2019
Looking at All the Angles, MIT Lab of Information and Decision Systems Magazine, 2016
