Publications Archive - USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society

Encoding and decoding illegal wildlife trade networks reveals key airport characteristics and undetected hotspots

05/23/2025

Nature

Hannah Murray, Meredith Gore, & Bistra Dilkina

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02371-5

Forecasting acute childhood malnutrition in Kenya using machine learning and diverse sets of indicators

05/14/2025

PLOS One

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Laura Ferguson, Caleb Robinson, Shiphrah Kuria, Herbert Wanyonyi, Samuel Murage, Samuel Mburu, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bistra Dilkina

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322959

Exploring predictors of substance use disorder treatment engagement with machine learning: The impact of social determinants of health in the therapeutic landscape

06/08/2024

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

David Eddie, John Prindle, Paul Somodi, Isaac Gerstmann, Bistra Dilkina, Shaddy K. Saba, Graham DiGuiseppi, Michael Dennis, Jordan P. Davis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2949875924001474?dgcid=author

Landscape Surrogate: Learning Decision Losses for Mathematical Optimization Under Partial Information

12/14/2023

37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)

Arman Zharmagambetov, Brandon Amos, Aaron Ferber, Taoan Huang, Bistra Dilkina, Yuandong Tian

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/574f145eac328cc4aaf9358e27120eb5-Paper-Conference.pdf

Learning Optimal Classification Trees Robust to Distribution Shifts

10/26/2023

Under review at Operations Research

Nathan Justin, Sina Aghaei, Andrés Gómez, Phebe Vayanos

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17772

Digital Epidemiological Approaches in HIV Research: a Scoping Methodological Review

11/02/2023

Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Lindsay E. Young, Yuanfeixue Nan, Eugene Jang, & Robin Stevens

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11904-023-00673-x

Longitudinal Associations between Homelessness and Substance Use: Investigating Demographic Differences for Young Adults in Treatment

10/27/2023

Substance Use & Misuse

Graham T. DiGuiseppi, John Prindle, Eric R. Rice, Jordan P. Davis

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10826084.2023.2267124

Interdiction of wildlife trafficking supply chains: An analytical approach

10/13/2023

IISE Transactions

Emily C. Griffin, Aaron Ferber, Lucas Lafferty, Burcu B. Keskin, Bistra Dilkina, Meredith Gore

https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2023.2255643

Multiplying the impact of conservation funding using spatial exchange rates

10/05/2023

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Paul R Armsworth, Bistra Dilkina, Joe Fargione, Maria Fisher, Rachel Fovargue, Jamal Harris, Heather B Jackson, Diane Le Bouille, Christoph Nolte, Casey Richards

https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2678

Effects of Online Friendships on Safer Sex Communication and Behavior among Black Sexual Minority Men: A Study of Network Exposure

09/15/0023

Health Communication

LIndsay E. Young

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2023.2258309

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