Identifying Human Trafficking Online

Faculty: 
Eric Gilbert
Students: 
Julia Deeb-Swihart

We are looking at identifying instances of Human Trafficking on online marketplaces and review sites. Using textual and visual cues, we are training a classifier to predict the likelihood of being trafficked.

Lab: 
Director: 
Eric Gilbert

The comp.social lab focuses on the design and analysis of social media. According to their website they "like puppies, mixed methods and new students (particularly MS)."