Yang developing training dataset labeling tool
2023-10-02
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Chaowei Yang, Professor, Director, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, Geography and Geoinformation Science, received funding from the National Science Foundation for the project: "I-Corps: An automatic training dataset labeling tool for producing large amount of quality training datasets."
He and his collaborators are interviewing more than 100 potential customers to: a) identify a customer sector that has the potential to show early success, b) define from a customer perspective a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), c) explore the potential and plan to create a startup by a team composed of undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors, and d) develop concrete proposals for the partnership for innovation or SBIR/STTR programs with a startup or small business.
Yang received $50,000 from the National Science Foundation for this project. This funding began in Sept. 2023 and will end in late Aug. 2024.
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