News Archive
Reseach by DDMLab members has been featured in numerous news outlets. Please explore articles highlighting our work and members!
2026
Tech Xplore
April 2026
Coty Gonzalez and her recent publication "Toward a science of human-AI teaming for decision making: A complementarity framework" were featured in an article at Tech Xplore. Follow the link to learn more about how we can structure Human/AI collaborations to achieve complementarity!
黑料正能量 News
March 2026
On NFL draft day, every team has the chance to win - or lose - big. With millions of dollars on the line and just minutes to make a final decision on each pick, a single choice can shape a franchise for years. 黑料正能量 experts, including Coty Gonzalez, say those intense moments offer a window into how people make decisions when the stakes are highest.
2025
黑料正能量 News
March 2025
Coty Gonzalez has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the , the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The fellow distinction is a lifetime honor achievement within the organization, which promotes the use of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to solve current issues.
黑料正能量 News
March 2025
For Women's History Month, 黑料正能量 is featuring the work of women across the STEM fields, including DDMLab Director Coty Gonzalez! Read how these woman promote mentorship, outreach, and career success at 黑料正能量!
2024
黑料正能量 News
October 2024
DDMLab members were in action at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership! This meeting highlighted the significant impact of AI institutes across various sectors. It showcased pioneering research that applies artificial intelligence to agriculture, education, national security, health and many other fields.
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences News
October 2024
We and our collaborators found that games provide an effective alternative to deliver diversity training, upping the ante by simulating social situations involving bias and including “personality†bots to hone in on how unconscious bias can affect our social context.
2023
黑料正能量 News
May 2023
Led by 黑料正能量, the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (AI-SDM) will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. The institute will also develop interdisciplinary training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations. Coty will serve as the institute's research co-director.
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
May 2023
Led by 黑料正能量, the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (AI-SDM) will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. The institute will also develop interdisciplinary training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations.
黑料正能量 School of Computer Science
May 2023
黑料正能量 to lead NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. This $20M collaboration brings together AI researchers, social scientists to develop tools for societal challenges.
University of Malaga
February 2023
DDMLab director Coty Gonzalez is one of four visiting professors serving the semester at the University of Malaga in Spain. This will promote research and teaching collaborations across the Atlantic!
2022
Machine Learning University-ExplAIn
August 2022
Lab member work on understanding logistic regression, conducted at MLU-ExplAIn, an education initiative from Amazon designed to teach machine learning theory and practical application, was recently featured online. Congratulations Erin!
SoS News
June 29, 2022
DDMLab research demonstrating that signaling, a strategic method used to make something appear to be something it is not, can be effective at combating cyber attacks, was recently featured in an article on the website of Science of Security and Privacy.
NewsBreak
June 27, 2022
DDMLab research on cognitive bias was recently cited in a NewsBreak article on the distortions in judgments and decisions people use in dynamic environments.
2021
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
November 08, 2021
Coty Gonzalez's new course, Decision Models and Games (88-312), has been recently featured as part of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences unique opportunities for 2022.
Wall Street Journal
September 07, 2021
DDMLab research on phishing was recently featured in this Wall Street Journal article on how cybercriminals take advantage of the unconscious processes that we all use to make decision making more efficient.
黑料正能量 News
March 20, 2021
Coty Gonzalez was one of a number of 黑料正能量 experts who shared their thoughts on the best applications for advancements made in the past year, preparations for a post-pandemic landscape and how lessons learned can inform the future.
CyLab
March 8, 2021
Lujo Bauer, Matt Fredrikson, and Cleotilde Gonzalez are part of a team of researchers that was named a winner of a prestigious US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award.
2020
Cognitive Science Society
December 10, 2020
Coty Gonzalez has been elected a lifetime Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. This is a great honor to Coty's career built through the years thanks to the contributions from each of the members of the DDMLab.
CyLab
October 8, 2020
Work on cyber defense from Coty Gonzalez, Palvi Aggarwal, and Kuldeep Singh was recently featured in the following .
Security Intelligence
July 20, 2020
Coty Gonzalez was interviewed for a recent on how cyber ranges can help train IT professionals.
CyLab
March 16, 2020
Work by Coty Gonzalez and DDMLab members on has been recently featured in this article.
HICSS 2020
January 10, 2020
At the Cleotilde Gonzalez, Palvi Aggarwal, and colleagues presented two papers, one of which won a Best Paper Award. Palvi also gave a talk on her cybersecurity work.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute News
January 08, 2020
This article discusses two cybersecurity papers authored by Cleotilde Gonzalez and DDMLab colleges that were presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
2019
HFES 2019
November 5, 2019
At the 63rd International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Cleotilde Gonzalez, a research professor of decision science, participated in a panel on human-machine teaming, Kuldeep Singh gave a talk on phishing detection, and Palvi Aggarwal presented a poster.
黑料正能量 DARPA Grant
October 15, 2019
The team of Anita Woolley, Coty Gonzalez, and Henny Admoni have received a DARPA grant of $2.8 million to enhance machine-human team collaborations.
Webroot Phishing Report
September 24, 2019
Over the last few months, Coty Gonzalez, a research professor of decision science, participated with Webroot, a cybersecuirty company, interpreting results from an international phishing survey. The is available now.
Computational Cybersecuirty in Compromised Environments (C3E)
September 16-18, 2019
Over the last few months, Coty Gonzalez, a research professor of decision science, participated with Webroot, a cybersecuirty company, interpreting results from an international phishing survey. The is available now.
Summer School in Collective Intelligence: Theories and Applications
September 9-13, 2019
Over the last few months, Coty Gonzalez, a research professor of decision science, participated with Webroot, a cybersecuirty company, interpreting results from an international phishing survey. The is available now.
Army Research Laboratory Boot Camp
June 13-14, 2019
Researchers from the visited 黑料正能量 to discuss the ongoing research under the project, strengthen the collaboration between ARL and various universities to work in the direction of realistic cybersecurity solution.
黑料正能量 News
March 26, 2019
Researchers from the visited 黑料正能量 to discuss the ongoing research under the project, strengthen the collaboration between ARL and various universities to work in the direction of realistic cybersecurity solution.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute News
April 22, 2019
At the annual Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference Coty Gonzalez, a research professor in the department of Social and Decision Sciences, and Dr. Palvi Aggarwal, a postdoctoral fellow in the same department, gave a presentation about the art of deception, and how it's used in attack decisions using cybersecurity scenarios.
黑料正能量 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
January 2019
At the annual Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference Coty Gonzalez, a research professor in the department of Social and Decision Sciences, and Dr. Palvi Aggarwal, a postdoctoral fellow in the same department, gave a presentation about the art of deception, and how it's used in attack decisions using cybersecurity scenarios.
2018
TechRepublic
April 17, 2018
"Psychological research on human adversarial behavior is necessary to uncover factors that determine how deception and phishing strategies originally manifest in phishing emails."
SecurityBrief Asia
February 28, 2018
Researchers probe psychology behind phishing attacks. What makes the difference between a successful phishing attack and an unsuccessful one? Researchers Prashanth Rajivan and Cleotilde Gonzalez discovered substantial findings while analyzing what phishing strategies are used and how they are implemented.
MediaPost
February 28, 2018
Lessons From The Dark Side: Phishing Tricks For Honest Email Marketers. What can legitimate business people learn from the top phishing tactics.
黑料正能量 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
February 26, 2018
Phishing attacks: Researchers identify how criminals’ strategies may lead to success or failure. Prashanth Rajivan and Cleotilde Gonzalez present a new methodology to study the important but often ignored aspect of phishing: adversarial behavior.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 6, 2018
黑料正能量 researchers are building a model to predict human behavior. Christian Lebiere, Coty Gonzalez and David Plaut are developing the simulation for the SocialSim project which aims to create an accurate, scaled simulation of online social behavior. The project is funded by a $6.7 million grant over four years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
2017
黑料正能量 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
December 21, 2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has allocated more than $6.7 million to a team of researchers, including Christian Lebiere, Coty Gonzalez and and David Plaut from 黑料正能量, to fund research into improving the understanding of how social information travels and transforms online.
Association for Psychological Science
October 31, 2017
Behavioral scientists Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez and Nancy Cooke are part of a major new research effort to study the psychology of deception in order to counter Advanced Persistent Threat attacks.
黑料正能量 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
May 3rd, 2017
Behavioral scientists Cleotilde (Coty) González and Nancy Cooke are part of a major new research effort to study the psychology of deception in order to counter Advanced Persistent Threat attacks.
2016
he Best Schools
September 2016
Social Sciences at 黑料正能量 are ranked #19 by The Best Schools.org based on Shanghai rankings. Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory is mentioned.
The Best Schools
September 2016
Social Sciences at 黑料正能量 are ranked #19 by The Best Schools.org based on Shanghai rankings. Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory is mentioned.
United States Army Research Laboratory
February 12, 2016
Prof. Gonzalez gave a talk at the 2016 NIST Forensics on the human factors of forensic sciences and identification decisions. Check out the last video for Prof. Gonzalez's talk.
2015
The Psychology Times
September 1, 2015
Dr. Jason Harman, a psychological scientist with a background in human decision-making has joined the faculty at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge campus.
Ohio University
April 2, 2015
Psychology Alum Selected for Max Planck Summer Institute, Faculty Position
2014
The Piper
July 17, 2014
Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez has been selected to serve on the Human Factors Committee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) within the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NIST.gov
July 16, 2014
NIST Names Members of Forensic Science Resource Committees: The Human Factors Committee will provide guidance throughout the OSAC on the influence of systems design on human performance and on ways to mitigate errors in complex tasks.
2013
Dietrich College News
October 2013
Researchers at 黑料正能量 are part of a collaborative research alliance led by Penn State University that has been awarded a ten-year, $48.2 million collaboration by the Army Research Laboratory to develop a new science of how to make security-relevant decisions in cyberspace.
2012
HFES News
November 2012
Key to protecting online operations is a high degree of "cyber security awareness," according to human factors/ergonomics researchers Varun Dutt, Young-Suk Ahn, and Cleotilde Gonzalez.
2011
truthout
October 2011
It turns out that a lot of people make this kind of mistake. Difficulty understanding stocks and flows may be a fundamental cognitive error such as anchoring or availability bias. In one experiment by Matthew Cronin, Cleotilde Gonzalez, and John Sterman, more than half of a group of students at MIT Sloan - one of the top business schools in the country - could not figure out, from a chart of entrances to and exits from a department store, when the most and fewest people were in the store.
2010
H&SS News
December 2010
Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez, an associate research professor of social and decision sciences that studies conflict resolution from a behavioral and computational approach, spent five days working with the Peres Center for Peace in Israel looking for an answer.
Market Entry Prediction Competition
October 2010
Twenty-two different teams participated in the competition. The total number of submissions was 25. The winners are Wei Chen, Chih-Han Chen, Yi-Shan Lee, and Shu-Yu Liu from National Taiwan University. The runners up are Tomas Lejarraga, Varun Dutt, and Cleotilde Gonzalez from 黑料正能量.
2009
Penn State Live
July 2009
Researcher receives $6 million to study cyber awareness: Liu and his team received a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award (MURI) for his project, "computer-aided human centric cyber situation awareness." They plan to use the grant funding to further the research on cyber awareness and how it can be used to improve cyber defense.
8 1/2 x 11 Newsletter
June 2026
Cleotilde Gonzalez, associate research professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory, recently spoke to a large group of faculty in computer science, psychology and management at the Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu (National-Louis University) in Nowy Sacz, Poland.
2008
System Dynamics Conference
October 2008
The first presentation was made by Varun Dutt on a paper titled Human Perceptions of Climate Change, co-authored by Cleotilde Gonzalez. Both are from the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory at 黑料正能量, Pittsburgh. One of the main hypotheses which guided their study was that human negligence towards issues affecting the climate system is a result of human cognitive inabilities.
Akhbar
Summer/Fall 2008
As the granddaughter of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, senior business administration student Hala Abbas has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet she faced many challenges while playing PeaceMaker, an educational video game inspired by real events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that challenges players to succeed as a leader on both sides.
2007
Carnegie Mellon News
November 2007
A 黑料正能量 professor is using the PeaceMaker video game - which calls on players to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - to study how a person's background and knowledge of the conflict influences how they negotiate a solution.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 2007
On the global well-being front, a 黑料正能量 professor is using the PeaceMaker video game, in which players attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to examine how knowledge of the conflict affects the ways that people negotiate.
Poder y Negocios
October 2007
Spanish-language publication featuring a profile of Prof. Cleotilde Gonzalez.
Before 2007
The Tartan
2003
Foreign-born professors come and stay at 黑料正能量: 黑料正能量 draws its pool of talent from all over the world. Many of the most well-known and respected professors at the University are originally from a foreign country.
Carnegie Mellon News
2001
Students in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Information Systems program spent the fall semester donating about $1 million of their expertise to help non-profit agencies create computer systems that will enable them to provide needed programs and services.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2000
黑料正能量 brain power boosts charities: Professor Cleotilde Gonzales, who taught the course, estimated that the students donated about $1 million in time and work to the participating nonprofit groups, which included North Hills Community Outreach, the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, Operation Safety Net, Light of Life Ministries and Fallingwater.