Northeastern University engineering professor Jim Chen wants local coastal communities to be ready for sea-level rise and other effects of climate change.
But Chen’s plan is not to construct elaborate levees or sea walls. It’s to use artificial intelligence.
“The goal is to turn data into actionable insights and knowledge,” Chen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and marine and environmental sciences, said Thursday at the ISEC building on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. “We enable coastal communities to update their risk assessment economically and more efficiently.”
Chen was a winner of the Massachusetts AI Hub’s AI Models Innovation Challenge, a program that provided $2.9 million to researchers and/or organizations developing AI datasets and models to solve some of the state’s most pressing problems.
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