Past GEMSTONES Projects
The GEMSTONES Community Engagement Award funds faculty co-investigators from engineering, health, or social sciences to mentor student teams in developing projects that address community-defined health needs or plan research tackling community-identified challenges in underserved San Diego communities. Learn more about past GEM projects below.
2024-2025
Sovereign AI and Sustainable Computation for Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities worldwide have long faced challenges related to technological dependence, environmental degradation, and lack of data sovereignty. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational technologies has exacerbated these disparities, creating a digital divide and contributing to unsustainable practices such as e-waste. This proposal leverages the concept of Earth Friendly Computation (EFC) to build technological independence for Indigenous communities through the decentralization of micro-data centers powered by reanimated Zombie GPUs (ZGPUs). Read more.
Keolu Fox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
Proposition 209 Compliance
In accordance with applicable Federal and State law and University policy, the University of California does not discriminate, or grant preferences, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and/or other protected categories. Initiatives are open to all eligible members of the UC San Diego campus community and does not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and/or other protected categories.
Proposition 209
UC Anti-Discrimination
