Metaverse of Simpson’s Victory City Reconstruct & Reimaging of Orville Simpson’s Vision of Urban Futures using AI Ming Tang. $4500. Supported by SAID Simpson Urban Futures Grant Program. UC. 8. 2026-8. 2027 This project works on the AI-creation of an online Metaverse by reconstructing and reimaging Orville Simpson’s visionary “Victory City.” Using archival materials from […]
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Entries by Ming Tang
paper in Frontiers
Differentiated memory and scientific cognition in AI research agents Cuadros DF, Maiga A-A, Thatham S, Ortiz A, Powers-Fletcher M and Tang M (2026) Differentiated memory and scientific cognition in AI research agents. Front. Big Data 9:1916523. doi: 10.3389/fdata.2026.1916523 AI research agents increasingly support ideation, literature search, coding, experimental execution, analysis, and manuscript drafting across the […]
SENSE-AI Studio
SENSE–AI: Developing Spatial Experiences through Narrative, Senses, and Emotions with AI ARCH 4001 studio. SAID, DAAP, UC. This SENSE-AI design studio invites students to explore the complex relationship between architecture, human emotion, cultural heritage, and experiential design through the conceptualization and design of a new museum at Fort Ancient, part of the UNESCO-listed Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. Using […]
DOE Award: Genesis Mission
I am very excited to share that UC grant proposal, “AI-Enabled Prediction of Coupled Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Processes in Heterogeneous Subsurface Systems,” has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs through artificial intelligence. DOE Phase 1: The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI. Award Amount: $500,000 Project […]
paper in Environments Journal
Toward Sub-Sewershed Spatio-Temporal Wastewater Surveillance: A Critical Review and a Candidate Multimodal Foundation-Model Framework Cuadros, Diego F., Xi Chen, and Ming Tang. 2026. “Toward Sub-Sewershed Spatio-Temporal Wastewater Surveillance: A Critical Review and a Candidate Multimodal Foundation-Model Framework” Environments 13, no. 7: 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments13070382 Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has matured into a population-level surveillance complement with operational […]
