Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics. Assistant professor Joe Mihaljevic of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has been working with public health partners across the state and the country to share computer models mapping the spread of the coronavirus. Mihaljevic, a disease ecologist who applies… Read more
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Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant!
Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2022-Spring 2023).
John Hardy is the third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student in Dr. Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen’s research lab, who has been showing a great interests and potential in conducting cutting-edge research on next-generation microelectronics.
The project being funded will be focused on the oxide-based memory for neural network implementations towards the computing challenges.
Congratulations Maxwell Weiss and Isaiah Shipley for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant
Congratulations Maxwell Weiss and Isaiah Shipley for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2021-Spring 2022).
Maxwell and Isaiah are the third-year undergraduate students in Dr. Daphne Chen’s research lab, who has been showed a great interests and potentials in conducting the cutting-edge research.
The project being funded will be focused on the neural network implementations and epidermal sensory systems towards the outer space challenges.
Mihaljevic awarded NAU Pilot Project Program research grant for West Nile virus work
The researcher, along with SICCS colleagues Crystal Hepp and Ben Ruddell, hope to use climate data to predict the risk of West Nile virus transmission from mosquitoes to humans in Maricopa County. Read More.
NAU researcher making drones smarter, situationally aware and team-oriented with $480,000 NSF grant
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened the door for an unprecedented number of uses for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). Groups of drones now can work together in networks for purposes such as traffic control, smart agriculture, surveillance and security systems, law enforcement, public safety and much more.
However, current drone systems are missing key considerations such as the ability to identify and respond properly to environmental and behavioral factors, says Abolfazl Razi, an assistant professor in the School of Informatics,… Read more
Fallowing cattle-feed farmland simplest way to alleviate western water shortage, FEWSION-based study finds
An important new study published this week in Nature Sustainability finds that irrigated crop production accounts for 86 percent of all water consumed in the western U.S.—and of all the water used on western farms, by far the largest portion goes to cattle-feed crops such as alfalfa and grass hay. To alleviate the severe shortage of water in the region—especially in the Colorado River basin—the study’s authors suggest that rotational fallowing farmland,… Read more