I'm currently participating in Frontier Development Lab Europe ( https://fdleurope.org/ https://fdleurope.org/), an 8 week research accelerator with the Europea

I'm currently participating in Frontier Development Lab Europe ( https://fdleurope.org/ https://fdleurope.org/), an 8 week research accelerator with the European Space Agency, Oxford University and a number of tech organisations. The idea is to bring together space scientists (domain experts) and machine learning researchers to try and make a meaningful contribution to the field in a very short period of time. It's a lot of fun, and a really interesting mix of people taking part. We've just finished week two, which means we're narrowing down our ideas and are about to start the "real work". We're split into teams working on different challenge areas (you can read more on the site). While I can't say much about what we're doing specifically, the outputs from the teams are usually published after the event at conferences/in journals. There is an analogous program in the USA (NASA FDL) which is running in parallel. (and who knows, I'm pretty sure there are some other FDL'rs who read HN ;))