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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">ICICLE Educational Fellowship Program Unveils its 2024 Cohort of Fellows</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">BLOOMINGTON, IN</span></b><span style="color:black"> – The NSF AI Institute Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE) announces its 2024 cohort of ICICLE Educational
Fellows. The 2024 cohort — Lucas Borges dos Santos, Huiying “Fizzy” Fan, John Myers, Rosemarie Santa González, and Emily Steliotes — brings together an impressive array of scholars and researchers committed to AI-enabled cyberinfrastructure and knowledge systems
in support of food system resilience.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">“The ICICLE AI Institute is harnessing the power of AI and computing for the benefit of science and society, and has democratization at its core.” said Dr. Beth Plale, co-principal investigator of ICICLE and Michael
A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering at Indiana University. “Our 2024 ICICLE Educational Fellows bring unique and diverse perspectives to how AI and computing can be applied to food systems to fundamentally amplify our
ability to nourish the world.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">About the </span></b><a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/education-and-outreach/icicle-educational-fellows-program"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">2024 ICICLE Educational Fellows</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Lucas Borges dos Santos</span></b><span style="color:black">, a
</span><span style="color:#333333">third-year Informatics Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><span style="color:black">, will leverage his work using
</span><span style="color:#333333">next-generation sequencing and pangenomes to uncover the genetic diversity of pathogens affecting soybeans production around the world
</span><span style="color:#434343">to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying AI to boost soybean cultivation in Africa. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Huiying “Fizzy” Fan</span></b><span style="color:black">, a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, works at the intersection of transportation engineering, climate resilience, and network and
data sciences, centering her efforts on understanding the complex effects of climate change on urban infrastructure and the discrepancy among populations and exploring themes such as extreme heat exposure during transportation, flooding interactions with urban
topology, and the application of urban analytical tools in environmental and population health analyses. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">John Myers</span></b><span style="color:black">, an environmental scientist who presently serves as an urban agriculture and natural resource agent at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, brings passion
for new and emerging technologies and their application to addressing food security in underserved communities to his ICICLE Fellowship. Through his fellowship, he will explore solutions to address food insecurity in marginalized communities, such as Alabama’s Black
Belt regions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Rosemarie Santa González</span></b><span style="color:black">, a postdoctoral fellow from the Georgia Institute of Technology, brings to her fellowship a dedication to
</span><span style="color:#212121">developing socially responsible AI solutions that empower underrepresented minorities and promote sustainability. Santa González‘s doctoral work in humanitarian logistics and past experiences in developing tools for mobile
clinic deployment in conflict zones coalesce with her fellowship project, which aims to eliminate food deserts by democratizing AI technologies that enhance cold food supply chains. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Emily Steliotes</span></b><span style="color:black">,
<span style="background:white">a PhD student at the University of California, Davis and IC-FOODS Fellow, brings
</span>to her ICICLE Fellowship <span style="background:white">10+ years of experience working toward healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems across the private, nonprofit, and academic sectors</span>. Steliotes will design</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D">
a competency-based microcredential in food informatics that synergizes food domain knowledge with computational skills, enabling
</span><span style="color:black">more effective interdisciplinary collaboration between food domain scientists and computational scientists. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">This year’s </span><span style="color:#434343">fellowship mentors are
</span><a href="https://cse.osu.edu/people/stewart.962"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Christopher Stewart</span></b></a><span style="color:#434343">,
</span><span style="color:#333333">Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University,
</span><a href="https://cias.wisc.edu/directory/michelle-miller/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Michelle Miller</span></b></a><span style="color:#212121">, Associate Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
</span><a href="https://dpla.wisc.edu/staff/alfonso-morales/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Alfonso Morales</span></b></a><span style="color:#333333;background:white">, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateolan"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Matthew Lange</span></b></a><span style="color:black">, CEO of the nonprofit
<span style="background:white">International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">About the ICICLE Educational Fellowship</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">The </span><a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/education-and-outreach/icicle-educational-fellows-program"><span style="color:#1155CC">ICICLE Educational Fellowship program</span></a><span style="color:black"> is devoted
to furthering the educational and outreach objectives of the institute by providing successful fellows with real-world, high-impact projects and the opportunity to participate in a nine-month fellowship under the guidance of the collective action working group
within ICICLE, called the Broader Backbone Impacts Network. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">About the National Science Foundation AI ICICLE Institute</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Led by The Ohio State University, the ICICLE Institute is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion, welcoming applications from all backgrounds and encouraging applications from underrepresented populations
that reflects its strong commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI research and ensuring its benefits are accessible to all. Committed to advancing AI, cyberinfrastructure, and education through innovative research and training programs. Visit
<a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/">https://icicle.osu.edu/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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