NewsLII News | February 5, 2026
Applied Research & Innovation
As during the many years since she worked with us while a student, LII’s Language & Data Scientist Dr. Sylvia Kwakye once again oversaw the work of Masters of Engineering (M.Eng.) students in both semesters.
With an assist from developer Matt Carey, JD in the fall semester, the project focused on regulatory drafting, identifying the “purpose” sections in state regulations and extracting information from them to characterize, categorize, and compare regulations across multiple states. In the spring semester, M.Eng. student Allen Wang designed and presented a proof-of-concept AI-powered vector search to improve the relevance of results returned to users of our website.
LII was pleased to add a second student project in the spring semester, this one by Rutgers Ph.D. student Mani Subramanian Krishnamurthy. A long-time admirer of LII, Mani researched and presented a project using a Large Language Model to automate the formalization of state regulations pertaining to public benefits.
