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• The DEVS-FIRE API is launched. November 13, 2024.
• The Smart and Safe Prescribed Fire website is launched. February 20, 2024.
• Computer Science Professor Awarded $2 Million to Support Prescribed Fires, GSU News, August 29, 2023.
• Dr. Xiaolin Hu's new book Dynamic Data-Driven Simulation: Real-Time Data for Dynamic System Analysis and Prediction has been published. The book is also available at Amazon, April, 10, 2023 .
• Dr. Xiaolin Hu is awarded a new grant (totoal amount: $2.0M) from the NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program: Smart and Safe Prescribed Burning for Rangeland and Wildland Urban Interface Communities. July 18, 2023
• Dr. Xiaolin Hu is awarded a new NSF grant : FIRE-PLAN:High-Spatiotemporal-Resolution Sensing and Digital Twin to Advance Wildland Fire Science. (08/18/2023 )
• Drones Take Their Place on the Cutting Edge of Wildfire Fighting, FlyingMag.com, October 7, 2021.
• Dr. Xiaolin Hu serve as the general chair for the 2021 Annual Modeling and Simulation (ANNSIM) Conference.
• GSU professor developing drones to help fight wildfires, WSB-TV Channel 2 News, March 25, 2019.

Media & Publicity

• Computer Science Professor Awarded $2 Million to Support Prescribed Fires, Georgia State University News, August 29, 2023.
• China Has a Drone Army to Fight Off Wildfires. So Why Doesn’t America?, Daily Beast, Oct. 18, 2022.
• Google Announces Support for CodePath To Help Democratize Computer Science Education for Underrepresented Students Across Atlanta, Cision PR Newswire, Sep 01, 2022.
• Drones Take Their Place on the Cutting Edge of Wildfire Fighting, FlyingMag.com, October 7, 2021.
• GSU professor developing drones to help fight wildfires, WSB-TV Channel 2 News, March 25, 2019.

• Researcher Leads Project To Explore Use Of Drones To Fight Wildfires, GSU News, Jan. 23, 2019.
• Earth, Wind, & Fire - A Computer Model Combination Could Unravel the Mysteries of Sudden Firestorms, The National Institute for Computational Sciences, April 20 2015.
• No Smoke Without Fire, International Innovation magazine, North America, August, 2012, pp. 101-103. A PDF version of the article can be found here.
• Computer simulation models to help wildfire management, The ARRA Report (provided by the National Science Foundation), Science360 News, June 22, 2010

• Symposium to highlight CDC/GSU research, News, Georgia State University (GSU), October 2009

• GSU prof. gets $1M stimulus grant, Atlanta Business Chronicle, September 22, 2009

• The Sims Meet Science, IEEE Computer Society Technology News, August 2009

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Seed Projects - FY 2010 awarded the project "Advancing Child Maltreatment Prevention Using Complex Systems Science Modeling and Simulation", September, 2009

• Industrial engineering's Ntaimo receives NSF grant for wildfire research, Texas A&M Engineering News, September 25th, 2009

• GSU prof to use $1 million grant to improve computer models for fighting wildfires, News, Georgia State University (GSU), August 2009

• Computer Science faculty win four NSF CAREER awards, College of Arts & Science, GSU, September 14, 2009

• Combating wildfires with keystrokes, Villager, GSU, VOL. 8, NO. 2 - 9/25/07

• Combating wildfires with keystrokes, News and Events, Georgia State University (GSU), August 2007

• Computer Science faculty member wins NSF grant to model forest fires, College of Arts & Science, GSU, August 2007

• Towards an Incremental Simulation-Based Design Process, Featured article, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society eNewsletter, December 2005