Logically announces three-year research partnership with Punjab Engineering College and the Cyber Security Research Centre in Chandigarh on Tackling Misinformation and Improving Civic Discourse through Artificial Intelligence under the Cyber Swachta Mission of UT Police
Logically, a technology company using advanced AI to tackle misinformation, along Cyber Security Research Centre in Chandigarh (CSRC) at Punjab Engineering College (PEC), the leading research and technical institutes, have launched an ambitious research partnership that will develop new methods for the detection and analysis of fake news, propaganda and disinformation on social media in India.
The partnership combines CSRC’s expertise in computer software development with Logically’s industry-leading capabilities in developing and applying advanced technology to combat disinformation. It aims to technically contribute to datasets and computational models that can reliably detect information security threats, cyber warfare and threats to India's interests in its surrounding geographies in South Asia.
As part of the partnership, researchers from PEC are developing methods that can better identify and locate the actors behind the spread of harmful disinformation, as well as the demographics being targeted, with a particular focus on foreign actors, spreading anti-India narratives and threatening national cyber security. The team has announced that they will be working with UT Police for their pilot deployments and make significant steps forward in the development of technical tools to further the fight against harmful disinformation in India, a problem that has been seen grow exponentially since the outbreak of the pandemic.”
Mr. Lyric Jain, CEO and Founder logically took a session in PEC on the topic “Tackling Misinformation and Improving Civic Discourse through Artificial Intelligence”. The session was under the Cyber Swachta Mission of UT Police in partnership with PEC. He said: “We are excited to be working with such a prestigious institution as the Punjab Engineering College. Staying at the cutting-edge of research in this field is of crucial importance, as the threats and actors we are confronting are evolving and becoming more advanced every day.
As a part of the MoU, two PhD scholars and two M.Tech students of CSRC are carrying out the research work in collaboration with Logically and are being supported with real time datasets by the company. The company is also supporting international travel of the researchers for presenting their work in top conferences.
Dr. Divya Bansal, Head of Cyber security Research Centre at PEC said that the collaborations are aimed towards indigenising the production and availability of cutting-edge cyber tools/software and products, vital for national cyber security and interests and contribute towards making the country a leading cyber power of the world. The research solutions are being aimed to be translated to capabilities including problems like time-based clustering of terroristic events from online media, identification of radical/extremists/anti-national content on social media, and fake news detection. The converted capabilities will contribute to applications in national security i.e. early warnings against illicit acts, predict chances of unrest, and flagging misleading content
The collaborations will give a boost to the ongoing research and provide the much-needed expertise to our PhD scholars in communication and journalism and utilize our own expertise in Artificial Intelligence techniques to combat problems such as misinformation, disinformation, malicious users, hate content etc.
