Earthquake Detection with Crowd-sourced Data

Have you ever wanted to hear what an earthquake sounds like? Today on the show we have Omkar Ranadive, Computer Science Masters student at NorthWestern University, who collaborates with Suzan van der Lee, an Earth and Planetary Sciences professor at Northwestern University, on the crowd-sourcing project Earthquake Detective.

Guest

Omkar Ranadive: Omkar Ranadive is a Master's student in the Computer Science department at Northwestern University. His research interests are in Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning. He is collaborating with the Earthquake Detective team to develop Machine Learning algorithms to help detect low-amplitude seismic events and analyze them.