Planet+AI is a cross-disciplinary outreach project, which aims to engage youths, particularly high school students in the State of TN, and the public at large, in exploring AI through working with planetary datasets. Planet+AI is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Our Team

• Leading PI: Ping Wang
• Dr. Pengyu Hong
• Dr. Kristin Bass
• Dr. Nicholas Dygert
• Dr. Jeffrey Moersch
• Dr. Shichun Huang
• Dr. Vasileios Maroulas

• Melody Hawkins

  We are very thankful to:

• Dr. Eugene Smith
  
  We lost Gene on June 22, 2023. Gene is a planetary scientist, a friend, a great colleague and he has been supporting our work since the beginning. We will always have Gene in our hearts.
• Dr. John Bush
  We are thankful to Dr. John Bush for allowing us to use his fantastic hydrodynamic quantum analogs photos.

Our Collaborators

• University of Tennessee NASA Space Grant Consortium

Our Summer Programs

• June 3-21, 2024: 47 high school students from the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area participated in our summer program; and each of them got a stipend of $1,200 for attending our 3-week Planet+AI program (with 2 exceptions).

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