https://jennamk14.github.io/data/news.js

1/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2   NEWS
3   Newest first. The homepage shows the first 5; news.html shows all.
4     date      short display string, e.g. "Jul 2026"
5     title     one line
6     body      one or two sentences (may contain <a> links)
7     highlight true for awards, prizes, and honors — renders with a star
8   --------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
9
10const NEWS = [
11  {
12    date: "Sept 2026",
13    title: "WildBox accepted to NeurIPS 2026",
14    body: "<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21309\">“WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife”</a>, a dataset paper led by Vandita Shukla in collaboration with <a href=\"https://wilddrone.eu/\">WildDrone</a>, was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Datasets and Benchmarks Track."
15  },
16  {
17    date: "Sept 2026",
18    title: "Best Artifact Award at ACSOS 2026",
19    body: "Received the Best Artifact Award at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) for “A Maneuver-Indexed Testbed for Context-Aware Adaptive Wildlife Drones.”",
20    highlight: true
21  },
22  {
23    date: "Jul 2026",
24    title: "Paper accepted to ACM/IEEE SEC 2026",
25    body: "“A Blueprint for Cross-Modal Coordination at the Far Edge” was accepted as a full paper at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing."
26  },
27  {
28    date: "Jul 2026",
29    title: "Speaking at ESA 2026",
30    body: "Presenting “Lessons from FAIR² Drones: Toward AI-Ready Multimodal, Multispatial Sensor Data for Ecology” in the symposium “Building an AI-Ready Ecology &amp; Biodiversity Data Infrastructure for Science and Action” (Mon, Jul 27), and joining the “AI for Ecology” panel (Tue, Jul 28) at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting."
31  },
32  {
33    date: "Jul 2026",
34    title: "Two papers accepted to ACSOS 2026",
35    body: "“What the Sheep Can Teach the Shepherd” presents a vision for self-organizing drone swarms informed by collective animal behavior; “A Maneuver-Indexed Testbed for Context-Aware Adaptive Wildlife Drones” contributes a peer-reviewed research artifact for evaluating behavior-adaptive flight systems."
36  },
37  {
38    date: "Jul 2026",
39    title: "Five abstracts accepted to TDWG 2026",
40    body: "Contributions span AI-ready data standards, automated FAIR evaluation, multimodal sensing coordination, edge/cloud infrastructure, and modular behavior-monitoring workflows."
41  },
42  {
43    date: "Jul 2026",
44    title: "Starting a postdoc at MIT",
45    body: "Joining Dr. Heidi Nepf's group in MIT Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, working on drones and computer vision for coastal monitoring."
46  },
47  {
48    date: "May 2026",
49    title: "Successfully defended my PhD dissertation",
50    body: "“Autonomous Drone Systems for In Situ Animal Ecology.” Grateful to advisors, committee, and labmates — and excited to join MIT as a postdoc."
51  },
52  {
53    date: "Apr 2026",
54    title: "2025 Robert May Prize",
55    body: "Awarded for best paper in Methods in Ecology &amp; Evolution by an early-career author.",
56    highlight: true
57  },
58  {
59    date: "Mar 2026",
60    title: "Global Conservation Tech &amp; Drone Forum 2026 · Nairobi",
61    body: "Attended and gave an invited talk at the Global Conservation Tech &amp; Drone Forum in Nairobi, Kenya."
62  },
63  {
64    date: "Feb–Mar 2026",
65    title: "2026 WildDrone Hackathon · Kenya",
66    body: "Took part in the <a href=\"https://wilddrone.eu/2026-wilddrone-hackathon-in-kenya/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 WildDrone Hackathon</a> in Kenya."
67  },
68  {
69    date: "Feb 2026",
70    title: "Organized WILDLABS Edge Computing Group's first in-person meeting",
71    body: "Ahead of the International Conservation Technology Conference (ICTC) in Lima, Peru."
72  },
73  {
74    date: "Dec 2025",
75    title: "ACM/IEEE SEC 2025 — 1st Place Student Research Competition",
76    body: "For “An Edge-Native Approach to Behavior-Adaptive Navigation in Drone Systems.”",
77    highlight: true
78  },
79  {
80    date: "Dec 2025",
81    title: "2025–2026 Presidential Fellowship",
82    body: "Ohio State's most prestigious graduate award, recognizing outstanding scholarly accomplishment entering the final phase of dissertation research.",
83    highlight: true
84  },
85  {
86    date: "Nov 2025",
87    title: "Alumni Grant for Graduate Research &amp; Scholarship (AGGRS)",
88    body: "One of two engineering graduate students awarded the AGGRS for dissertation research. Featured in <a href=\"https://imageomics.osu.edu/news/2025/11/smart-win-smart-wilds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">

88Imageomics news</a>.",
89    highlight: true
90  },
91  {
92    date: "Oct 2025",
93    title: "Selected for MIT and Boston University Rising Stars in EECS",
94    body: "A program supporting women pursuing academic careers in EECS, with mentorship and career development.",
95    highlight: true
96  },
97  {
98    date: "Sept 2025",
99    title: "WildDrone Summer School · Max Planck Institute, Konstanz",
100    body: "Presented “How do drones fit into multimodal sensing networks?” Also joined the AI+Environment Summit at ETH Zurich."
101  },
102  {
103    date: "Jul 2025",
104    title: "Summer fieldwork at The Wilds, featured by Imageomics",
105    body: "Led a team of students conducting fieldwork and collecting data at The Wilds in Cumberland, OH."
106  },
107  {
108    date: "May 2025",
109    title: "Selected for WiscProf: Future Faculty in Engineering",
110    body: "A four-day program at UW–Madison for senior PhD students and postdocs pursuing academic careers in engineering.",
111    highlight: true
112  },
113  {
114    date: "Apr 2025",
115    title: "Drone research featured in Ohio State News",
116    body: "Coverage of my autonomous drones for animal ecology and their potential impact on conservation research."
117  },
118  {
119    date: "Apr 2025",
120    title: "CSE Graduate Student Research Award",
121    body: "Recognizing exceptional research contributions in the Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering.",
122    highlight: true
123  },
124  {
125    date: "Feb 2025",
126    title: "Hayes Advanced Research Forum — Engineering Oral, 1st Place",
127    body: "For “Autonomous, Adaptive Vision-Based Remote Sensing System for Dynamic Field Animal Ecology Studies.”",
128    highlight: true
129  },
130  {
131    date: "Jan 2025",
132    title: "Fieldwork at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya",
133    body: "Tested autonomous drones for wildlife monitoring with the WildDrone team at Ol Pejeta."
134  },
135  {
136    date: "Nov 2024",
137    title: "Passed PhD candidacy exam",
138    body: "Approved as the first Imageomics Institute PhD candidate."
139  },
140  {
141    date: "Apr 2023",
142    title: "Selected for the 2023 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women",
143    body: "Attended the Computing Research Association's Grad Cohort Workshop for Women in San Francisco, CA.",
144    highlight: true
145  },
146  {
147    date: "Jan 2023",
148    title: "Drone pilot for the KABR dataset in Kenya",
149    body: "Fieldwork at Mpala Research Center collecting data for the KABR wildlife behavior dataset."
150  }
151];