The NAIRR Pilot Portal serves as the primary entry point to the NAIRR Pilot, providing researchers, educators, and students with a unified environment to discover AI research resources, explore opportunities, and connect to the broader NAIRR ecosystem. SGX3, The NSF Center of Excellence for Science Gateways, provides the portal, which features a growing set of interactive sandboxes that demonstrate how researchers, educators, and students can explore advanced AI-ready infrastructure and data through hands-on environments.
The webinar presentation will highlight three sandboxes, two sandboxes which leverage Jetstream2. The first sandbox highlights Numerical Image Recognition using Jetstream2 based on a NAIRR classroom project. It illustrates how scalable cyberinfrastructure can support teaching, learning, and applied AI experimentation. The second Jetstream2 sandbox, Making Biomedical Data FAIR on the NAIRR (EAGER), focuses on practical approaches to FAIR data management within the NAIRR ecosystem. A third sandbox showcases capabilities enabled by the National Data Platform (NDP). This sandbox presents the NDP dataset catalog and NAIRR workspaces, including projects such as HydroGen and OpenTopography.
Please note: NAIRR Pilot Portal Sandboxes are available only to U.S.-based reearchers, educators, and students.
Exploring the NAIRR Pilot Portal Sandboxes
Remote event
Instructor
Sandra Gesing
Senior Researcher, SDSC
Sandra Gesing is the Executive Director of US-RSE and Senior Researcher at SDSC. Her research focuses on science gateways, computational workflows as well as distributed and parallel computing which inherently leads to highly interdisciplinary projects. As Director of the Center of Excellence for Science Gateways, she aim at supporting users, developers and providers of science gateways. She is especially interested in sustainability of research software, usability of computational methods and reproducibility of research results and support open science initiatives. Sustainability of research software has many facets and via her roles in US-RSE (first as founding steering committee member and now as Executive Director) she advocates for improving career paths for research software engineers and for incentivizing their work via means beyond the traditional academic rewarding system. US-RSE has four major goals: RSE community building and interaction; advocacy for RSEs; providing resources; and promoting, encouraging, and improving diversity, equity and inclusion. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM. The program with Chicago Hopes for Kids, for example, supports children with high potential (ages 5-11 as starting point) living in unstable housing.