SLU Computer Science Professor Named a Business Journal 40 Under 40 for 2022

St. Louis, MO (Nov. 7, 2022) — Abby Stylianou, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and a Fellow of both the Research Institute at Saint Louis University and the Taylor Geospatial Institute, was named a St. Louis Business Journal 40 Under 40 for 2022.

Stylianou began as a Fellow …

Saint Louis University Computer Scientist Uses Image Recognition to Combat Human Trafficking

Travelers Encouraged to Share Hotel Images to Help Stop Traffickers and Rescue Victims

ST. LOUIS – Human traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online ads. As COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines continue to lift around the world, one Saint Louis University researcher reminds travelers that …

Women’s Leadership Luncheon to Focus on Human Trafficking – School Sisters of Notre Dame

MPI’s WEC Enlists Planners to Combat Human Trafficking

Michelle Guelbart, Director of Private Sector Engagement, ECPAT-USA, Onstage at WEC 2018. One of the hot topics at MPI’s WEC 2018 in Indianapolis is sex trafficking, as it relates to the travel industry.

Michelle Guelbart, Director of Private Sector Engagement, ECPAT-USA, Onstage at WEC 2018

Michelle Guelbart, director of private sector engagement for ECPAT-USA, detailed some of the signs and ways

Ending Sex Trafficking? There’s an App for That

You can join the fight against sex trafficking just by uploading a picture.

Nowadays, there isn’t much we can’t do with our cell phones. Modern technology has enabled us to order food, book vacations, call a private driver… and even help rescue victims of sex trafficking.

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TraffickCam

Cybersecurity needs women

Safeguarding our lives online requires skills and experiences that lie beyond masculine stereotypes of the hacker and soldier, says Winifred R. Poster.

Computer hacking is becoming more widespread and damaging. Headlines highlight attacks on government agencies, political campaign offices, financial institutions and big corporations. But citizens and consumers are paying

Leadership Tomorrow class project fights human trafficking

Leadership Tomorrow Class 32 wants to make a lasting impact with their class project.

They’ve heard the statistics and stories that describe the reality of human trafficking, even in Grand Island. Now, they want to do something about it.

Every Leadership Tomorrow class has to come up with some type

Nix Conference & Meeting Management of St. Louis honored for work fighting sex trafficking

Nix Conference & Meeting Management of St. Louis honored for work fighting sex trafficking

WBBJ-TV: United Way volunteers use technology to combat human trafficking

JACKSON, Tenn. — The United Way of West Tennessee is lending a helping hand to authorities in the fight against human trafficking.

Hotel rooms across the country are being used as safe havens for human traffickers and their victims. One snap at a time, volunteers are using their …

Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images

Online volunteers are helping to track slavery from space. A new crowdsourcing project aims to identify South Asian brick kilns – frequently the site of forced labour – in satellite images.

This data will then be used to train machine learning algorithms to automatically recognize brick kilns in satellite imagery.