Press

Articles

• California National Guard Using Satellites to Fight Wildfires. Air Force Magazine. September 8, 2020.
• Fighting Fires Together: xView 2 Prize Challenge Helps Automate Damage Assessments. NASA. June 25, 2020.
• JUST IN: Defense Innovation Unit to Sponsor Computer Vision Prize Challenge. National Defense Magazine. March 12, 2020.
• AI for natural disaster damage assessment challenge reaches final stages in California. The Sociable. January 8, 2020.
• DIU teams up with civilian agencies to start humanitarian AI challenge. Federal News Network. November 19, 2019.
• A Challenge to Automatically Assess Damaged Buildings After a Disaster. NASA. November 7, 2019.
• California has 33 million acres of forest. This company is training artificial intelligence to scour it all for wildfire.. The Washington Post. November 6, 2019.
• Can AI automate damage assessments after a disaster?. C4ISRNet. October 4, 2019.
• DIU challenge takes on algorithms to assess building damage. FedScoop. September 30, 2019.
• U.S. Military, Looking to Automate Post-Disaster Damage Recognition, Seeks a Winning Formula. IEEE Spectrum. September 26, 2019.
• Defense Innovation Unit launches new satellite imagery prize challenge. Space News. September 26, 2019.

Reports

• Into the Storm: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve California’s Disaster Reslience. Partnership for Public Service + Microsoft. July 9, 2020.

Videos

• Building Damage Assessment from Remote Sensed Imagery. May 1, 2020.
• Human–Machine Teaming and AI. January 30, 2020.
• AI in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response. September 18, 2019.
• What is Ransomware?. September 12, 2019.
• Efficient NetFlow Partitioning via Minimum Cuts. July 2, 2019.
• Learning by Observing via Inverse Reinforcement Learning. March 21, 2019.
• You Can Prove It With Less: Data Science Tasks Using Challenge-Based Acquisition. October 25, 2018.
• Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, the Bad, and the Future. June 7, 2018.