DAFNI / ASU CICI and SPARC

DAFNI is a UK computing platform for national-infrastructure research; SPARC and the CICI Lab at Arizona State University, led by Wenwen Li, do GeoAI and cyberinfrastructure research for environmental and disaster applications.

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DAFNI stands for the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure.¹ It serves UK research on transport, water, energy and city-scale systems, and was funded as an £8 million investment by the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC).² Researchers deposit and share data on it, run and link computational models at a larger scale than their own machines allow, and present results as visualisations.² Hosted projects include:

OpenCLIM, a climate impacts modelling framework for UK risk assessment¹
Pywr-WREW, a water resources model for England and Wales¹
a sewer-overflow flood risk model¹
projects on grid resilience, aviation resilience and flood-disrupted road networks^1,3

Access is arranged with DAFNI directly.³

Wenwen Li directs two groups at Arizona State University: the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC) and the Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Intelligence (CICI) Lab.⁴ She is a professor in ASU's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.⁴ Her research applies cyberinfrastructure (shared computing, storage and networks for research), big data and geospatial AI to environmental and social science.⁴ Her projects include an AI flood-mapping tool, wildfire prediction in Alaska, AI for disaster and emergency response, and tracking Arctic permafrost thaw.⁴ Funders include NSF, NASA, USGS and Google.org.⁴