CMU Auton Lab publicly recognized by a Department of Homeland Security official

[Andrew Moore]

Can we talk about this one publicly? I think we could get good venues for
this one.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Team,
>
> I was surprised but very pleased to hear one of our projects showcased as
> the sole template of
> a success story in a plenary talk by Dr. Joel Rynes, Assistant Director
> for R&D at the U.S. Department
> of Homeland Security, at the DNDO ARI conference earlier this week.
>
> This was completely unexpected, because the government officials at this
> level of responsibility
> typically refrain from mentioning any vendor or partner names explicitly
> in their public appearances.
> In the past, we had prepared numerous batches of presentation and
> press-releasable materials for
> the use by our government sponsors, from which we had to remove any and
> all references to CMU,
> the Robotics Institute, or the Auton Lab.
>
> Dr. Rynes basically said that everyone in the R&D community working in the
> space of radiation safety
> should look at how our CMU team has developed the foundations of ERNIE
> system and how the results of
> our research are being successfully transitioned to the U.S. Customs
> practice, and how significant difference
> it will make when the system is fully deployed throughout the organization.
>
> Hats go down above all to Saswati who continues to deliver exceptional
> implementations of our
> algorithms and who makes our partners from Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory and various
> groups of our sponsors and end-users very pleased with them.
>
> Cheers!
> Artur
>
> PS ERNIE stands for " Enhanced Radiological Nuclear Inspection and
> Evaluation".
> This is the project in which we look at the data collected using Radiation
> Portal Monitors
> at the U.S. ports of entry, and the primary objective is to combine
> physics of radiation models
> and machine learning to allow dismissing a large number of alerts that are
> generated
> by non-threatening sources of radiation, while never missing a real
> threat.
>



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