CIDER Lab Wins First Prize at Kumo AI Hackathon
On August 20, 2025, the Kumo AI Hackathon took place in San Francisco. The CIDER Lab students Binrong Zhu, Guiran Liu, and Yang Liu participated. Competing among many strong teams, the project WildfireRFM – Wildfire Risk Alarm System with KumoRFM won First Prize. Part of this work is also supported by Gilead Innovation Initiative 2025 Summer Research Award and with Professor Zhuwei Qin, an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering.
WildfireRFM leverages KumoRFM to combine California-wide forest datasets and historical wildfire records in order to predict the regions at highest risk of wildfire in the coming month. The system also integrates real-time camera detection and edge LLM analysis of weather and environmental signals, enabling timely early-warning reports for fire stations in high-risk zones. This recognition highlights both our students’ dedication — after a summer of intensive research on AI and wireless networks — and the potential for foundation models to tackle urgent real-world challenges such as wildfire prevention.
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