Exploiting AI To Help Find Critical Minerals in the United States
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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Craig Knoblock.
They discussed research that Dr. Knoblock is doing at the USC Information Sciences Institute on using AI to help locate critical minerals in the United States. Dr. Knoblock is working on a project with DARPA and the US Geological Survey to create new AI tools that help find critical minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, and germanium, that are needed for things such as building batteries for electric cars and creating microelectronic chips. In this project, Dr. Knoblock led a team of researchers on the problem of creating a comprehensive repository of mineral sites throughout the world where they have found these critical minerals in the past. His team used various AI techniques to automatically extract and integrate the relevant data from mining reports, journal articles, and databases. The resulting repository can then be used in a machine learning system to predict where these critical minerals are most likely to be found in the future.
Website: isi.edu/~knoblock
Bio: Craig Knoblock is the Keston Executive Director of the Information Sciences Institute, Research Professor of both Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, and Vice Dean of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University and his Master’s and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science. His research focuses on techniques for describing, acquiring, and exploiting the semantics of data. He has worked extensively on source modeling, schema and ontology alignment, entity and record linkage, data cleaning and normalization, extracting data from the web, and combining all of these techniques to build knowledge graphs. He has published more than 400 journal articles, book chapters, and conference and workshop papers on these topics and has received 7 best paper awards on this work. Dr. Knoblock is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is also past President of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and winner of the Robert S. Engelmore Award.
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