Dr. Kevin Shao, a researcher with UCLA EPSS, has been interviewed by Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) about his work on using artificial intelligence to more deeply understand landslides.
Read JPR’s description for the segment below:
We like to think of the ground beneath us as rock-solid and immovable. But reality intrudes, especially in our volcano-and-fault-ridden part of the world.
We’ll set earthquakes aside for a moment and take up landslides with Dr. Kevin Shao, a researcher at UCLA. He’s part of a team feeding information about landslides into a neural network, in the hope that artificial intelligence can help human minds understand the most important contributing factors to the ground giving way.
It’s a complicated process with lots of acronyms, but the upshot is that it DOES help human scientists. Kevin Shao visits to explain.
Listen to Dr. Shao’s segment here: https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2023-07-18/wed-9-40-using-ai-to-help-understand-why-landslides-happen
Learn more about the research here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-landslides