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On building WildfireDB.
Talks, interviews, and coverage
Recorded lectures and tutorials, podcast conversations, and press about the lab's work.
Speaking
Invited talks, tutorials, and panels
- 2026Decision-Making for Societal-Scale Systems: Invited talk, Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Vienna.
- 2026Decision-Making under Non-Stationarity: Concepts, Formulations, Algorithms, and Open Challenges. Tutorial, CPS-IoT Week.
- 2025Scalable, Adaptive, and Interpretable Decision-Making for Societal-Scale Systems: Invited talks at the Eindhoven AI Systems Institute (TU/e), TU Delft, and the Technical University of Denmark. Slides
- 2025Decision-Making under Non-Stationarity: Tutorial, NSF CPS PI Meeting. Also a panelist on “CPS in the Age of AI.” Slides
- 2025Panel speaker, NSF Workshop on “Digital TRACE Test Bed: Solutions, Challenges & Opportunities.” Slides
- 2024Panelist, “TNGO Unveiled: New Projects and Future Opportunities,” Chattanooga Connect.
- 2023Algorithms for Optimizing Public Transit Systems: Tutorial, IEEE Conference on Smart Computing. Slides
- 2022Increasing Vaccination Uptake by Optimizing Heterogeneous Resource Allocation: &inCSL seminar series, Sony CSL Paris.
- 2022Multi-agent Systems for Emergency Response: Workshop on Social Media for Emergency Response, ICWSM.
- 2022Invited talk and panelist, NSF CREEATTE Workshop on connecting rural and urban environments for access to transportation, telecommunications, and energy.
- 2021Multi-Agent Systems for Disaster Management: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- 2021Multi-Agent Systems for Emergency Response: Los Alamos National Laboratory Seminar Series. Slides
- 2021Smart Emergency Response: Tutorial, IEEE Conference on Smart Computing. Video
- 2020Smart Emergency Response: Tutorial, NSF Doctoral Consortium on Computational Sustainability. Video
- 2020Robust Incident Forecasting and Response: University of Utah Data Science Seminar. Video
- 2020Robust Incident Forecasting for Animal Conservation: University of Cambridge Environmental Data Science AI4ER Seminar Series. Video
- 2020–21Invited panels, Stanford University CS+Social Good Impact Lab.
- 2019Intelligent Emergency Response: Center for Automotive Research at Stanford Annual Symposium.
Press
In the news
William & Mary
On recent National Science Foundation awards and the lab's work on real-world decision-making with AI.
Read it →George Mason University
On building AI and human collaboration in emergency services.
Read it →Vanderbilt University
On working with the city of Varanasi, India, to improve public transit.
Read it →Vanderbilt University
On the best-paper award at IJCAI 2022, for the tool designed to optimize childhood vaccinations in Nigeria.
Read it →INFORMS, Resoundingly Human
Podcast interview on using AI to design health interventions.
Read it →BellaNaija
On the HelpMum collaboration to increase vaccination uptake in Nigeria using AI.
Read it →TechNext Nigeria
On the first AI-driven vaccination uptake framework to be deployed in Nigeria.
Read it →MetroLab Innovation of the Month
On using artificial intelligence to lower emergency response times in Nashville.
Read it →Financial Times
On how IoT devices could shape the future of smart cities.
Read it →UCR News
On how extracting heterogeneous data about wildfires can help firefighters.
Read it →Patch
On WildfireDB, the first comprehensive database linking wildfire occurrence with covariates extracted from satellite data.
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