CGA Cadet presents at TEDxYale event
March 3, 2018
Cadet Evan Twarog gave a presentation on crisis mapping and using social media for
Coast Guard applications during the final round of the student competition during
the TEDxYale: Uncharted event March 3, 2018. The event highlighted nine featured
speakers and five student speakers who presented their exploration of the uncharted.
During Hurricane Harvey, Twarog contributed to the Coast Guard’s “crisis mapping”
response, an effort that assembled social media posts from over 5,000 survivors
in need of rescue and represented the first time social media played a major role
in Coast Guard disaster response operations.
U.S. Coast Guard men and women rescued 11,022 people and 1,384 pets during the service’s
response to the disaster which involved 2,060 Coast Guard personnel, 50 rotary and
fixed-wing aircraft, 75 shallow-water boats and 29 cutters.
Twarog, a Keene, N.H. native and Electrical Engineering student at the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy, is interested in how data analytics and artificial intelligence can
be used to improve disaster response and humanitarian missions.
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Cadet Twarog’s presentation
Photo courtesy of Yale University