Assistant Professor of Computer Science Eni Mustafaraj was awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER grant for early-career faculty in support of her work on “Signals for Evaluating the Credibility of Web Sources and Advancing Web Literacy.” The 5-year $460,610 grant will support Eni’s work with several student researchers under her leadership in the Wellesley Cred Lab.

Eni’s project will identify and implement signals about online sources that will help users assess their credibility (should you believe what this source is writing about climate science or gender equality?) These signals can be used to augment search results, for example in Google. A concrete example in one of Eni’s blog posts uses the metaphor of “nutrition labels” to explain this augmentation.

Wellesley Cred Lab, Spring 2018 outing