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Dr. Habib's Research Team's Project is Finalist for the Igniting Innovation Award
Tue, 04/21/2020 - 4:03pmThe College of Engineering is excited to announce great news about ongoing research by one of its faculty members, Dr. Emad Habib, Endowed Professor with the Civil Engineering Department. His research project titled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Flood Prevention and Forecasting” has been selected as a finalist for the Igniting Innovation Award offered by the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), a premier public-private partnership in the government technology community. The Igniting Innovation Award recognizes premier work that promotes and connect innovations and innovators to improve citizens and government operations. The project was selected as a finalist out of over 150 nationwide innovation nominations that were submitted. The final competition and award ceremony will take place at Igniting Innovation 2020 Conference on August 3rd, 2020 in Washington DC.
This project focuses on improving the ability to predict and warn against flood events by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to the analysis of the myriad of environmental observations that are continuously collected by various sensors, including space-based systems, ground radar, field sensors, and social media data. The project applies predictive analytics approaches in such a way that makes the environmental observations easily interpreted and useful to decision makers and the public for applications such as emergency evacuations, road closures, and access mapping for areas that have been devastated by natural disasters.
The project includes members of Dr. Habib’s research team, Dr. Mohamed Elsaadni, a Research Scientist and Assistant Professor – Research, Department of Civil Engineering, and Ahmed Abdelhameed, a Computer Engineering PhD Candidate working with Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head.
This project is sponsored as a joint collaboration between Dr. Habib’s research group, CGI Federal and the UL Lafayette Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI).
Congratulations to the research team and its collaborators!
(Image: Geospatial information on land use patterns over the Vermillion River watershed.)