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Towards Equitable AI: Detecting Bias in Using Large Language Models for Marketing
Berk Yilmaz, Huthaifa I. Ashqar
The recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized industries such as finance, marketing, and customer service by enabling sophisticated natural language proce…
Flood Risk Assessment of the National Harbor at Maryland, United States
Neftalem Negussie, Addis Yesserie, Chinchu Harris +2
Over the past few decades, floods have become one of the costliest natural hazards and losses have sharply escalated. Floods are an increasing problem in urban areas due to increas…
When to Commute During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Analysis of Traffic Crashes in Washington, D.C
Joanne Choi, Sam Clark, Ranjan Jaiswal +3
Many workers in cities across the world, who have been teleworking because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are expected to be back to their commutes. As this process is believed to be gr…
Influential Factors in Increasing an Amazon products Sales Rank
Ben Chen, Rohit Mokashi, Mamata Khadka +2
Amazon is the world number one online retailer and has nearly every product a person could need along with a treasure trove of product reviews to help consumers make educated purch…
Analysis of Droughts and Their Intensities in California from 2000 to 2020
Ujjwal, Shikha C. Patel, Bansari K. Shah +2
Drought has been perceived as a persistent threat globally and the complex mechanism of various factors contributing to its emergence makes it more troublesome to understand. Droug…
The Effect of Funding on Student Achievement: Evidence from District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland
Adam Raabe, Jessica Reynolds, Akshitha Kukudala +1
The question of how to best serve the student populations of our country is a complex topic. Since public funding is limited, we must explore the best ways to direct the money to i…
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Medicare Quality Measures
Hala Algrain, Elizabeth Cardosa, Shekha Desai +3
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, expanding Medicaid and improving access to care for millions of low-income Americans. Fewer uninsured individuals reduced the c…
The Relationship Between Smartphone Usage and Sleep Quality Amongst University Students
Hafsa Chaudhry, Hetvi Patel, Sai Teja Avadhootha +4
Gender differences were examined in sensitivity to sleep quality, in the context of blue light exposure from smartphones. Our hypothesis was created based on our journal article fi…
Identifying Economic Factors Affecting Unemployment Rates in the United States
Alrick Green, Ayesha Nasim, Jaydeep Radadia +4
In this study, we seek to understand how macroeconomic factors such as GDP, inflation, Unemployment Insurance, and S&P 500 index; as well as microeconomic factors such as health, r…
Evaluating a Signalized Intersection Performance Using Unmanned Aerial Data
Mujahid I. Ashqer, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy +4
This paper presents a novel method to compute various measures of effectiveness (MOEs) at a signalized intersection using vehicle trajectory data collected by flying drones. MOEs a…
Impact of risk factors on work zone crashes using logistic models and Random Forest
Huthaifa I Ashqar, Qadri H Shaheen, Suleiman A Ashur +1
Work zone safety is influenced by many risk factors. Consequently, a comprehensive knowledge of the risk factors identified from crash data analysis becomes critical in reducing ri…
Network and Station-Level Bike-Sharing System Prediction: A San Francisco Bay Area Case Study
Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Hesham A. Rakha +2
The paper develops models for modeling the availability of bikes in the San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share System applying machine learning at two levels: network and station. Inves…
Developing a Novel Crowdsourcing Business Model for Micro-Mobility Ride-Sharing Systems: Methodology and Preliminary Results
Mohammed Elhenawy, MD Mostafizur Rahman Komol, Huthaifa I. Ashqar +4
Micro-mobility ride-sharing is an emerging technology that provides access to the transit system with minimum environmental impacts. Significant research is required to ensure that…
Modeling bike counts in a bike-sharing system considering the effect of weather conditions
Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Hesham A. Rakha
The paper develops a method that quantifies the effect of weather conditions on the prediction of bike station counts in the San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share System. The Random Fo…
Modeling bike availability in a bike-sharing system using machine learning
Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Mohammed H. Almannaa +3
This paper models the availability of bikes at San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share stations using machine learning algorithms. Random Forest (RF) and Least-Squares Boosting (LSBoost)…
Vulnerable Road User Detection Using Smartphone Sensors and Recurrence Quantification Analysis
Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Mahmoud Masoud +2
With the fast advancements of the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry, detection of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) using smartphones is critical for safety applications of Cooperative I…
A Comparative Analysis of E-Scooter and E-Bike Usage Patterns: Findings from the City of Austin, TX
Mohammed Hamad Almannaa, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy +3
E-scooter-sharing and e-bike-sharing systems are accommodating and easing the increased traffic in dense cities and are expanding considerably. However, these new micro-mobility tr…
Ethics, Data Science, and Health and Human Services: Embedded Bias in Policy Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Davon Woodard, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Taoran Ji
Background: This study aims to evaluate the Chicago Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative delivery optimization outcomes given policy-neutral and policy-focused approaches to delive…