LIST duo set for NASA challenge

Two LIST researchers specialised in Environmental Research and Technologies (ERIN) have been selected to take part in the NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) this year.

About FDL

The NASA Frontier Development Lab is an applied artificial intelligence (AI) research accelerator established to maximize new AI technologies and capacities emerging in academia and the private sector and apply them to challenges in the space sciences. 

The programme is a public / private partnership between NASA and commercial partners including Nvidia, Intel, IBM, Google and Lockheed Martin, who as part of the partnership provide expertise and vast computer resources necessary for rapid experimentation and iteration in data intensive areas. The Luxembourgish Ministry of the Economy is sponsoring the FDL in the framework of the SpaceResources.lu initiative.

LIST researchers joining the programme

Dr Ramona Pelich and Dr Simone Zorzan have been selected to join the programme following an international call for applications.

Dr Simone Zorzan is bioinformatician and his research work is focused on Environmental Informatics. He will be hosted at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California for eight weeks from end of June to Mid-August 2018. He will be working on the Astrobiology challenge. Dr. Ramona Pelich is a remote sensing scientist and her research work is focused on Environmental Sensing and Modelling activities. She will be hosted by ESA at ESRIN and by the University of Oxford during the same period. She will be working on the Earth Observation challenge.

Congratulations to Simone and Ramona on this great achievement!