PAWS: Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security

• Protect wildlife from poaching
• Provide randomized patrol routes to combat poaching
• Key AI Techniques: game theory, spatio-temporal analysis, human behavior modeling, optimization

Wildlife Corridor Design

• Protect endangered wildlife such as Andean bears in a significant biodiversity hotspot, while improving livelihoods of local communities
• Plan cost-effective joint movement corridors for wildlife
• Key AI Techniques: stochastic optimization, spatio-temporal modeling.

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Smart Grid Modeling and Control

• Power grid modeling, control, and energy storage
• Managing the power system with increasing use of renewable sources of electricity
• Key AI Techniques: stochastic optimization, sequential decision making, pattern decomposition

Computer Support of Teamwork in Complex Healthcare

• Create new tools to support complex, loosely-coupled teamwork
• Key AI Techniques: teamwork modeling, optimization

Adaptive Traffic Signal Control

• Control traffic signal to react to traffic conditions in real time
• Key AI Techniques: constraint-based reasoning and optimization

HEALER

• Using Social Networks to Spread Health Based Information
• Key AI Techniques: sequential decision making, stochastic optimization