The Aircraft Crash Survivor Behavior Project

In March of 2022, the CRIM team, including our partners from Computer and Electrical Engineering, was awarded a $25,000 Chancellor’s Translational Research Initiative (CTRI) grant from UIC Innovation to develop a database of aircraft crash survivor behavior and to develop artificial intelligence that could predict an individual’s behavior post-crash. The CTRI program awards up to $25,000 to assist in early stages of projects with high potential for commercialization. We successfully completed this work and in August we applied for a Proof of Concept (POC) award, which is also managed in partnership by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Innovation and the Office of Technology Management at UIC, to further develop this work. The POC program advances innovative research to create high impact business ventures. Projects can receive up to $200,000 in two phases to work toward commercialization of their work. 

We are pleased to report that in December of 2022 the CRIM team was awarded a $50,000 POC award for this exciting, interdisciplinary work. The team’s hope is that our research will improve search and recovery efforts not only for military aircraft crash survivors, but that it can be applied to anyone lost in the wild, thus broadly furthering the CRIM mission.