Cody Buntain, Giovanni Ciampaglia, and PhD student Do Won Kim will present new research on VIOLETS — GEIS’s AI chatbot for Maryland election information — at IC2S2 2026 in Burlington, VT. The paper builds on the team’s public demonstration of VIOLETS at Maryland Day earlier this year.
Masha Krupenkin has been presenting her research on automated scoring of open-ended survey responses and essays at both the 2026 POLMETH conference and IC2S2 2026, part of a growing line of work on how AI systems can be used to evaluate free-text responses at scale.
