January Event: Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar Applications
Charlottesville's own Dr. May Casterline presents her talk from NVIDIA's recent GTC conference
Please join Charlottesville Data Science on the evening of Thursday, January 22 for the talk Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar, featuring Charlottesville’s own May Casterline of NVIDIA! May recently delivered this talk at NVIDIA’s major GTC conference in Washington, DC.
We'll be gathering in person at the TELUS Digital campus (previously known as WillowTree) at Woolen Mills.
About the talk
Radar has long enabled us to “see” what the human eye cannot—through darkness, fog, and across great distances. In areas like remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it reveals the invisible, powering applications from environmental monitoring to autonomous systems. Yet radar development has traditionally been split between two worlds: the rigor of digital signal processing (DSP) and the adaptability of AI.
This talk introduces NVIDIA NVRadar, a GPU-native software framework that unites DSP and AI into a single, accessible workflow. By combining simulation, testing, model training, and real-time deployment, it opens the door for both engineers and AI practitioners to create smarter, more responsive radar systems. Attendees will see how next-generation tools are transforming radar into an intelligent platform for “seeing in the dark.”
About the speaker
Dr. May Casterline is a director of solutions architecture at NVIDIA, focusing on deep learning and AI applications. She holds a Ph.D. and B.S. in imaging science from Rochester Institute of Technology, with a focus on remote sensing. In industry, she has acted as a product owner, technical lead, lead developer, and image scientist on both research initiatives and development projects.
More upcoming events around Charlottesville
Thursday, January 8: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup is holding an online Meet, Swap, and Learn event. Ring in the new year with a virtual show-and-tell of your favorite Rust books, blogs, videos, and conferences from 2025!
Tuesday, January 27: Cville AI Explorers hosts their January event, Transformers Explained. Nish Tahir, a Principal Applied AI Research Engineer at Telus Digital, will explore the underlying machine learning architecture that powers most modern AI systems.
Thursday, January 29: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will hold the second online event in their series on Tock, an open-source, Rust-based operating system used to run multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications on embedded platforms, from security processors to automotive systems.