News

New grant for Computational Research Integrity Conference 2023 - details soon
Successfully ran the Science of Science Summer School (S4) 2021 and awarded six micro-grants
Organizing and running Computational Research Integrity Conference 2021
Presentation at International Conference of Social Computing (virtual)
New grant from the US’s Office of Research Integrity: Large-scale High-Quality Labeled Datasets and Competitions to Advance Artificial Intelligence for Computational Research Integrity.
New grant from Sloan Foundation to study the effects of funding on the direction and impact of academic energy research (as co-PI with David Popp) News
Summer School on Science of Science postponed until next year August 2 - 6, 2021 in the iSchool of Syracuse University!
New grant from Sloan Foundation to study the effects of funding on the direction and impact of academic energy research (as co-PI with David Popp) News

Media

Interview for The New Yorker (2021) How a Sharp-Eyed Scientist Became Biology’s Image Detective
Interview for Nature News (2020) Pioneering duplication detector trawls thousands of coronavirus preprints
Mention in Nature Machine Learning Editorial (2020) A match for virtual conferences
Mention in Nature News (2020) Publishers launch joint effort to tackle altered images in research papers
Nature Feature interview about Elisabeth Bik (2020) Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers
Interview for Nature News (2018) Researchers have finally created a tool to spot duplicated images across thousands of papers

Travel

August 22 - 24, 2022: Ray Summit Meetup and Ray Summit 2022, San Francisco, CA
June 7 - 9, 2022: International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), Washington, DC
January 27 - 30, 2020 ACM FAT Conference Barcelona, Spain
November 6 - 10, 2019 Data Science Leadership Summit, Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 14 - 16, 2019 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Atlanta, Georgia
September 5 - 8, 2019 Metascience 2019 Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
June 11 - 12, 2019 International Conference on Science of Science, Tsinghua University and the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, China
June 2 - 5, 2019 6th World Conference on Research Integrity, Hong Kong
May 22-23, 2019 2019 Research Integrity Conference, Chicago, IL
May 10, 2019, University of Rochester, Rocherster, NY
March 31 - April 3, 2019, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
March 20, 2019 Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

News archive

Paper accepted for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAT) 2020 in Barcelona, Spain!
Funded NSF grant to study mentorship in science.
A research grant and a conference grant funded by ORI. Inaugual Conference on Computational Research Integrity to be announced soon.
Best poster award, Metascience 2019 conference (with Ph.D. student Han Zhuang)
October 14 - 16, 2019 A talk and poster accepted to the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy
June 2 - 5, 2019 Oral presentation at the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity, Hong Kong
May 10, 2019 Invited speaker to the 8th Annual Ethics in Biomedical Research Lecture, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
March 31 - April 3, 2019 Short paper presentation iConference 2019, University of Maryland
March 20, 2019 Invited talk at Symposium of Yotta Informatics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Feb 14 - 15, 2019 Attending Rich Context Competition Workshop, NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Nov 2018 New publication Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers in Nature Communications, press release in Nature Asia
July 2018 The Office of Research Integrity DDHS has generously funded our grant Methods and tools for scalable figure reuse detection with statistical certainty reporting
June 2018 NSF has generously funded our grant Optimizing scientific peer review (in collaboration with James Evans from U of Chicago and Konrad Körding from UPenn)
February 2018 Nature featured our pre-print on Bioscience-scale automated detection of figure element reuse