Karla Badillo-Urquiola
Computer Science and Engineering
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
- Human-computer Interaction
- Social Computing
- Online Safety, Usable Privacy and Security
- Digital Youth, Child Welfare
- Latino Populations, Marginalized Populations, Teens in Foster Care
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Today Show
Video of Bunnies Jumping on Trampoline Went Viral Over AI Suspicion. What Experts Think
August 12, 2025
The original creator of the video has not confirmed whether the video is AI or released details on how the video was made, and TODAY.com has reached out for comment but has not heard back yet. But Karla Badillo-Urquiola, a professor of computer science and engineering at University of Notre Dame, points to "clues" that support the video is AI-generated.
Yahoo
The big thing missing in stories about teens and social media
February 04, 2025
"A lot of the work that I am doing is sort of how do we move beyond parental mediation strategies to look at more community-based practices and creating more social and ecological supports for these youth," Badillo-Urquiola said. "That's what we wanted to look at: Is any of that coming out in any of these articles? For the most part, it's not, right? It's still very parent-focused."
Science Magazine
Overburdened caseworkers put foster youths’ online safety on the back burner
June 27, 2024
In a study led by Karla Badillo-Urquiola, the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame, 32 caseworkers across the U.S. were interviewed about the online risks encountered by adolescents ages 13-17 in foster care.