The research that Amber and I spent the last few months on has the potential to revolutionize the insurance industry. Our models could significantly speed up damage assessment after disaster events and even improve the everyday assessment experience by eliminating the need for a physical assessor to visit a homeowner’s residence. While we’re making incrementalContinue reading “Jas Chawla: Drone Damage Assessment”
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Amber Losciale: Modernizing Disaster Response Through Drones and AI
My time spent on this IDEA Grant project has altered how I perceive myself as a student, researcher, and just an individual wanting to leave a meaningful impact on the world around me. The most exciting part of this project has been connecting with industry professionals at AON, who introduced us to DroneDeploy and accessContinue reading “Amber Losciale: Modernizing Disaster Response Through Drones and AI”
Jas Chawla: Professional Labelers
This month has been an eventful one for us. We already have a basic model that can detect damaged windows reasonably well; however, this alone isn’t sufficient to achieve our broader goal of drone-based damage assessment. To move closer to that goal, we decided to revisit the dataset used to train the original model andContinue reading “Jas Chawla: Professional Labelers”
May Drone Report
My experience working on the grant project has been productive but stressful—though not necessarily because of the project itself. At the beginning of the month, I had a family emergency that required me to travel to India. While I was there, the city I was staying in became a target during a skirmish between IndiaContinue reading “May Drone Report”
Growing as a Researcher Through Disaster Damage Analysis
Throughout my academic and professional journey thus far, I have discovered that what drives me the most is mission-driven work that has a legitimate real-world impact. This project is precisely that, through developing a machine learning model to assess the building damage caused by natural disasters. This project fits me perfectly in its capabilities toContinue reading “Growing as a Researcher Through Disaster Damage Analysis”
Amber Losciale: Unmanned Aircraft Assessors
Hello readers! My name is Amber Losciale, and I am a third-year Cyber-Criminology major. I am incredibly passionate about my major and career trajectory, with many of my academic and occupational goals particularly aligning for a future combatting Internet crimes against children. I am unsure if I watched too much of ‘How to Catch aContinue reading “Amber Losciale: Unmanned Aircraft Assessors”
Jas Chawla: Drones, AI, and Post-Disaster Recovery
Hello! My name is Jas Chawla, and I am proud to be part of a team to have received an Idea Grant. To be honest, I was one of the people who majored in computer science because it was what all my friends were doing. In fact, my original plan was to major in Finance.Continue reading “Jas Chawla: Drones, AI, and Post-Disaster Recovery”
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