Yu Xuan Huang NASA Internship
Aug. 17, 2018
Yu Xuang Huang, a senior applied math and computer science double major, got an internship at NASA for the Summer of 2018.
Hear it from him!
I got an internship offer from NASA summer 2018. The project name
is Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes Machine Learning Project and it means
a lot to me because our work will save lives and properties due to
the hazardous weather.
Above Anvil Cirrus Plumes(AACPs) are plumes of cirrus clouds that
shoot above the anvil tops of convective thunderstorms into the
lower stratosphere which is a weather phenomenon that often precede
severe weather such as tornados, thunderstorms, hail, and high
winds.
This work has built off of previous research of AACPs by the
NASA Langley Science Directorate using radar and satellite imagery.
The purpose of this project was to identify AACPs associate with
storms using machine learning techniques such as deep learning and
image processing to perform analysis of imagery of storm clouds in
order to automatically identify AACPs in satellite imagery. Which
predicts AACP associate with storms and issues notification for
precaution because loss of life and property due to severe weather
is an unknown quantity. This project will be an excellence tool to
assist aircraft flying in the vicinity of dangerous weather. This
internship enhances both my soft skills and technical skills
I really appreciate Professor Jack Hanson, Professor Akira
Kawaguchi and Professor Rosario Gennaro for the recommendation
letter.
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