Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mapping Healthy Food Access and Suggesting AI-Driven Solutions

Elsevier Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, August 2024

Junfeng Jiao, Kijin Seong, Marcus Sammer, Ryan Hardesty Lewis, et al.

An NSF Convergence Accelerator project leveraging AI to address food security challenges.

Voxelizing Google Earth: A Pipeline for New Virtual Worlds

SIGGRAPH 2024, July 2024

Ryan Hardesty Lewis

Creating a pipeline to voxelize Google Earth into Minecraft-compatible formats.

Crowdsourced Streetview: Integrating Real-Time Imagery Updates into Google Streetview

SIGGRAPH 2024, August 2024

Ryan Hardesty Lewis

An algorithm that overlays real-time social media imagery on Google Streetview.

Fire and Smoke Digital Twin: A Computational Framework for Modeling Fire Incident Outcomes

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 110, 102093, June 2024

Ryan Hardesty Lewis, Junfeng Jiao, Kijin Seong, et al.

Simulating 911 fire call outcomes using fluid simulations displayed in real-time.

Workshop Publications

Streaming the Future of Sustainability

ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review (EIR), Volume 4, Issue 5; Presented at HotCarbon 2024, July 2024

Ryan Hardesty Lewis, Alex Conway

Discussing the role of streaming in reducing the carbon footprint with edge/cloud systems.

Posters and Invited Talks

Agentic Exploration in Games

Cornell Tech Innovation Meets Impact, December 2024

Voxel Earth: Leveraging Digital Twins for Geospatial Analysis

SIGGRAPH CARTO BoF, July 2024

Building Cities Twice: The Making of Digital Twins

Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium, August 2023

Analyzing Downwind Smoke Impacts with Fluid Models

CHEER Climate Change and Health Symposium Poster Session, February 2023

Technical Articles

ComputeGPT: A Computational Chat Model for Numerical Problems

arXiv preprint, March 2023

Ryan Hardesty Lewis, Junfeng Jiao

One of the first implementations of automated code execution from language models.

Gamifying Ethics for AI

arXiv preprint, July 2022

Ryan Hardesty Lewis, Samuel Baker

Embedding ethics in games by creating 'moral agents' using modified RL algorithms.