SETI Institute Invites Applications for 2022 Frontier Development Lab
This announcement is adapted from the original press release on the SETI Institute website:
Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is an applied artificial intelligence research initiative that pairs researchers from the science domains with data scientists for an intense eight-week sprint to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to challenges important to NASA’s science and exploration goals — and to all humankind.
FDL is now is looking for researchers at the PhD and postdoc levels with expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and/or data science as well as those with expertise in astrophysics and space-related science domains. Research teams are supported by computer data and advice from private-sector partners for an intensive eight-week, paid research sprint over the summer between June and August.
The deadline to apply is 3 April 2022. Visit the SETI Institute website for more information and to apply.
Final 2022 challenges will be announced in March, but research areas include:
- Lunar Exploration
- Space Medicine
- Astrobiology
- Machine Learning Onboard Spacecraft
- Climate Adaptation
- Disaster Response
- Energy Futures
- Earth Science
- "Live Twin," a Digital Twin of Our Planet
- Heliophysics