RAISE Lab (Responsible AI Systems & Societal Experiences) (CDM-026)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Sub-unit: School of Computing
- Content Type: laboratory
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: June 14, 2026
Description & capabilities
The DePaul RAISE Lab (Responsible AI Systems and Societal Experiences) advances research, public knowledge, and innovation on the social and ethical responsibilities of computing and human-centered technologies. The lab uses participatory research methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a commitment to public-interest innovation so that computing systems serve the common good. Lab director Jay Cunningham leads the group; students join by contacting the director. Distinct from the Robotic Assisted Locomotion (RAL) Lab (CDM-006), which is directed by Muhammad Umer Huzaifa.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Lab membership is by arrangement with the faculty director; no published open-access policy for lab space or equipment.
- Access URL: www.depaul.edu/faculty/jay-cunningham
- Contact name: Jay Cunningham
- Contact email: jcunni37@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-06-14
- Source URLs:
- cdm.depaul.edu/academics/research-and-creative-activit…
- www.depaul.edu/faculty/jay-cunningham
Verification
- Status: confirmed (
✓) - Confidence: 90/100
- Rationale: Official CDM Research Labs listing names RAISE Lab and director Jay Cunningham.
- Last verified: 2026-06-14
- Evidence:
- CDM Research Labs cdm.depaul.edu/academics/research-and-creative-activit…
- Faculty profile www.depaul.edu/faculty/jay-cunningham
Equipment
Computational and human-subjects research lab; no dedicated public hardware inventory.
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Jay Cunningham (DePaul Faculty)
- Email: Jay Cunningham
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Jay Cunningham (Faculty lead) — jcunni37@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Distinct from CDM-006 - RAL Lab (Huzaifa). Corrects prior misattribution of RAL Lab leadership to Cunningham.
Linked Relationship IDs
Notes
Promoted from candidate RC-020 on 2026-06-14. PER-002 (Jay Cunningham) faculty-lead association corrected from CDM-006 to this lab. Source: packet 2026-06-14-cdm-csh-institutional-web-discovery.