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• July 31, 2024, Alice Zou led her team in a waterbot project and submitted an abstract to AGU2024, titled Exploring Trace Element Fingerprinting in Water Samples with Artificial Intelligence. The lab work was done in the UTK’s High Temperature geoCHemistry (HiTeCH) lab by using the state-of-the-art inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) technique for trace element abundances. The team was mentored by Ping Wang, Dr. Shichun Huang and Dr. Brian Daniel Duggan.
• June, 2024, Alice Zou, a program alunmni living in San Jose, led their DAISY group and submitted their project to NeurIPS2024.
• June 3- June 21, Planet+AI Summer 2024, 47 high school students completed the program. The team was mentored by Ping Wang.
• April 25, 2024, We had a group meeting on the Planet+AI Summer Program.
• April 2, 2024, Ping Wang, Professor Kwon from the Law School at UTK, and Principals at Austin East had a meeting together discussing how to recruit students from Austin East High.
• March-May, 2024, With the support the Knox County School District, our team have been recruiting high school students for our Planet+AI Summer Program. Ping Wang and Melody Hawkins has been talking about recruiting minority students, making plans, and building strageties since September, 2023.
• On March 22, 2024, Ping Wang and colleagues, including Dr. Guoyu Lu, Dr. Weiyan Shi, Dr. Anyi Rao, organized the online Symposium on AI Technologies and Their Implications.
• During March 11-15, 2024, Ping Wang presented research at LPSC in Houston.
• Our Planet+AI summer program was approved by the Programs for Minors Office at the UTK on March 5, 2024!
• During March, Ping Wang did outreach in the Art School, UTK by working with Professor Koichi Yamamoto on visual anagrams.
• The Moon Rocks by our program alumni is on exhibit at the American Museum of Science and Energy (it starts from March 3, 2024)!
• Ping Wang et al. were invited for in-person poster presentation at LPSC 2024 in Feb 2024.
• Ping Wang attended the Canada Consulate Luncheon on the Impact of Technology and AI on Public Engagement in Atlanta on Feb 6, 2024.
• Ping Wang published, in Jan 2024, the multimodal Alluvial Fans on Mars dataset for AI outreach and research, which will be introduced to participating students in the summer course.
• Ping Wang with colleagues submitted to an abstract EXPERIMENTING WITH EMERGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGIES UTILIZING PLANETARY SCIENCE DATA FOR STEM EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH to LPSC in January 2024.
• Dr. Maroulas and his PhD student Layal Bou Hamdan started to prepare the math component of the summer curriculum in January 2024.
• Ping Wang submitted the IRB for approval on Jan 3, 2024.
• Ping Wang sent student team’s From Hawaii to the Moon work to the American Museum of Science and Energy in Dec 2023.
• Ping Wang attended AGU and talked to colleagues on AI outreach for Geosciences in Dec 2023.
• Ping Wang attended the NSF AISL Awardee Meeting between Dec 6-8, 2023.
• Ping Wang mentored student teams in NYC and San Jose, CA to create a series of AI-assisted creative works, including AI Optical Illusions since Sep 1, 2023.
• Ping Wang mentored student teams in NYC and San Jose, CA to create From Hawaii to the Moon works in Dec 2023.
• Ping Wang has been organizing and conducting public lecture series, since Sep 1, 2023, co-funded by NSF and NASA Space Grant Consortium at UTK for which Dr. Nick Dygert is the Director.
• Ping Wang has been organizing and conducting public webinar series (weekly), since Sep 1, 2023, co-funded by NSF and NASA Space Grant Consortium at UTK for which Dr. Nick Dygert is the Director.
• Researchers, including Dr. Pengyu Hong and his PhD student Zhengyang Zhou, at Brandeis and Ping Wang at UTK have been preparing for summer-camp curriculum from September to December 2023.
• Project Kickoff Meeting was held on Monday, Sep 11, 4-5pm Eastern.
• Proposal #2314155 Collaborative Research: Cultivating Tomorrow’s Innovators Through Exploring Planetary Images with Artificial Intelligence was awarded by NSF on Aug 22, 2023.