Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.

She is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she also leads the Language and Information Technologies (LIT) Lab.

[3] A prolific researcher, Mihalcea has authored or coauthored over 400 articles since 1998 on topics ranging from semantic analysis of text to lie detection.

She also supports an expansion of the traditional analysis of educational success, which tends to focus on academic behaviour, to include student life, personality and background outside of the classroom.

[15] In a study of video clips of high profile court cases, a computer was more accurate at detecting deception than human judges.

[20] After identifying common human gestures, they transcribed the audio from the video clips of trials and analyzed how often subjects labeled deceptive used various words and phrases.

[23] In 2018, Mihalcea and her collaborators worked on an algorithm-based system that identifies linguistic cues in fake news stories.