Projects

OKN: Open Knowledge Networks for Rural Resilience

An NSF-funded project building an interdisciplinary knowledge graph to integrate health, environmental, and social data for enhancing rural community resilience and risk mitigation.


CAST: Coaching Data Storytelling at Scale

Supported by the NSF Cyberlearning program, CAST develops an AI-driven learning platform—Story Studio—to help educators teach data storytelling effectively and at scale in higher education.


FLAI: AI-Enhanced Flood Storytelling for Community Resilience

This CIROH-funded initiative uses generative AI and community-informed narratives to improve flood risk communication in underserved communities, enabling more trusted and actionable messaging.


AI-Gaming: Flood Resilience Education through LLM-Guided Gaming

Led by the University of Alabama and supported by CIROH and NOAA, this project engages youth in flood resilience through an immersive educational game powered by GPT-4 and real-world flood simulation data.


HAT: Human-Autonomy Teaming for Next-Generation Vehicles

HAT explores how humans and AI systems can safely and ethically collaborate in next-generation vehicles by designing interpretable, trustworthy, and adaptive autonomy for mobility in complex environments.


ROADSAFE: Researching Operator and Driver Safety and Awareness

Funded by CDC/NIOSH, ROADSAFE investigates driver and tow truck operator behaviors to reduce struck-by incidents using behavioral research, AI-enhanced analysis, and policy recommendations.


Water-R2O: NSF Research Traineeship in Water Prediction

The Water-R2O NRT program trains graduate students to translate research into operational hydrology solutions through interdisciplinary coursework, AI-driven tools, and real-world engagement with water prediction systems.