KhudaBukhsh, Robertson, and Dutta receive Outstanding Paper honors

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor of software engineering; O. Nicholas Robertson, associate professor of criminal justice; and Arka Dutta, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, received Outstanding Paper honors for “Race in the Record: Measuring Racial Signal and Model Inference in Police Arrest Narratives” at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Budapest. The paper was co-authored with Syracuse University.