West Hub Member Ilkay Altintas Leads Project to Proactively Fight Fires
By: Cynthia Dillon, SDSC Communications and Kimberly Mann Bruch, West Hub To mitigate the threat of massive wildfires, fire managers and first responders can set small controllable fires ahead of time to reduce flammable materials. West Hub member Ilkay Altintas, chief data science officer and director of the WIFIRE Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, is principal investigator of a new National Science Foundation-funded project coined BurnPro3D. Leading a nation-wide t