News and Events

• Congratulations Tes Myrie for successfully defending your thesis: Quantifying understory fuel loads for wildfire risk assessment in southeastern US forests.

• Congratulations Joey Vos and Maadhavan Muthuselvan on completing your bachelor's degrees! Both will be continuing on to graduate degrees in Artificial Intelligence at UGA and Management at Georgia Tech, respectively. Until then, they will continue contributing to PERSEUS as Research Assistants. 

• Congratulations Charles (Chaz) Merritt on completing your MSAI degree!

• We have hired 9 new PERSEUS interns beginning Spring 2026! Welcome to the team Dylan Dela-Vega, Jordan Grot, Ashtyn Laraby, Shishir Lohar, Sri Sai Laksham Kunderu, Tyler Price, Arushi Saravanan, Vishaka Venkatraman, and Yagmur (Rain) Yenici! 

• PERSEUS featured by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities

• Congratulations, Advait Sankhe (MSAI) for winning the award for Best Poster at the Artificial Intelligence and Other Advanced Technology Solutions for Eastern United States Forestry Conference!

Automating forest stand delineation with AI techniques using aerial imagery and airborne LiDAR

Advait Sankhe, Can Vatandaşlar, Frederick Maier, and Khaled Rasheed

University of Georgia, Artvin Çoruh University 

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April 2025

PERSEUS 2025 Annual Meeting - Athens GA

15th Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference - Athens GA