The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $349,209 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. The 5-year project, titled "An Integrated Trustworthy AI Research and Education Framework for Modeling Human Behavior in Climate Disasters", aims to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies to enhance the prediction and understanding of human behaviors before, during, and after weather and climate disasters. The research seeks to create theory-informed, high-resolution behavioral models that are explainable and minimize bias, in support of critical decision-making for disaster management. Key project tasks include coupling fundamental theories with data-driven AI approaches, characterizing fairness issues in AI-based models, interpreting model insights to advance theories, and incorporating research outcomes into high school and undergraduate engineering curricula as well as training for emergency managers. This CAREER award under the NSF Engineering program has the potential to yield significant improvements to emergency management, social equity, and community resilience.
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