| Feb 1, 2026 | New paper published in Geothermics: “Predictive analytics and statistical time series imputation of subsurface temperatures for a campus-scale geothermal exchange field” — collaborative work with J.M. Tinjum, D. Fratta, and colleagues. |
| Dec 15, 2025 | AI-CHESS Lab students present 6 papers at AGU Fall Meeting 2025 in New Orleans, covering urban heat islands, fallow field mapping, IoT waste sensors, urban tree mapping, and urban microclimate modeling. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | New paper published in Applied Computing and Geosciences: “Graph-based evidence accumulation for clustering 3D orientation measurements in planetary surface mapping under relational constraints.” |
| Nov 1, 2025 | AI-CHESS Lab co-authors 6 abstracts at ASN Kidney Week 2025, applying GeoAI methods to nephrology and kidney disease research in collaboration with the SLU School of Medicine. |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Rockwood School District students Adithya Chengalvala and Satvik Seetharaman, mentored by Dr. Aydin, are selected for the AGU Bright STaRS program to present their research at AGU 2025. Read more. |
| Aug 1, 2025 | AI-CHESS Lab student Stefany Carty wins the 2025 USGIF Globe Building STL Scholarship from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Read more. |
| May 15, 2025 | Dr. Aydin is an invited speaker at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025, presenting the Internet of Waste IoT sensor system for monitoring waste and recycling infrastructure across St. Louis. |
| May 10, 2025 | NVIDIA selects AI-CHESS Lab for the Academic Hardware Grant Program for the project “Physics-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Methane Mapping.” The lab receives Blackwell GPUs valued at over $30,000. |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Pause Boden wins the 2025 AGX Applied Geographers Conference Graduate Student Best Paper Award for “Mapping Sargassum in the U.S. Virgin Islands with High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning.” |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Dr. Aydin presents ADAPT-STL and moderates a panel on Nature-Based Solutions at the 2025 SLU Summit for Water. |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Dr. Aydin serves as Lead Organizer of the 2025 AAG GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium in Detroit. |
| Sep 1, 2024 | The U.S. Department of Energy awards SLU $964,848 to establish ADAPT-STL, a Climate Resilience Center led by Dr. Aydin — one of only 10 such centers funded nationwide. Read more. |
| May 28, 2024 | NSF awards AI-CHESS Lab $417,253 for the REU Site: GeoAI-driven Computational Sustainability in the Human-Environment Nexus — an undergraduate research program at the intersection of geospatial AI and sustainability science. |
| May 20, 2024 | NSF awards AI-CHESS Lab $149,791 for the Internet of Waste project — a sensor network to monitor waste and recycling bins across St. Louis using IoT and GeoAI. Read more. |
| Mar 1, 2024 | Dr. Aydin organizes the GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2024. |
| Feb 1, 2024 | New papers published on IoT sensor network optimization: “Efficient node localization on sensor IoT networks using deep learning” (Electronics, 2024) and “An improved localization algorithm to replace faulty nodes using weighted grey wolf optimization” (International Journal of Communication Systems, 2024). |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Recent publication on arcgisbinding is the second most trending publication in Environmental Engineering per OIR |
| Sep 28, 2023 | AI-CHESS Lab member Ryan Kelly wins 3rd place in Geo-Resolution 2023 Conference student poster competition. |
| Aug 23, 2023 | New members  Junaid (PhD), Ryan (PhD), and Vivek (post-doc) join the AI-CHESS Lab!  |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Taylor Geospatial Institute awards AI-CHESS Lab a seed grant for “Mapping Urban Recyclable Waste via a Scalable, Low-Cost, High-Fidelity Sensor Array.” Read more. |