Chase Rainwater Data-verified

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Professor / Department Chairperson

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-23

faculty

15 h-index 59 pubs 940 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Chase Rainwater's research group focuses on the application of advanced machine learning techniques, particularly deep neural networks and transformer models, to complex data analysis and prediction tasks. His recent publications demonstrate work in areas such as aerial image segmentation, semantic scene segmentation with domain adaptation, and video paragraph captioning. He has also investigated vision-language models for video understanding and direct aerial visual geolocalization using deep neural networks.

Rainwater is a Co-Principal Investigator on two significant National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator grants totaling over $5.7 million. One grant, for nearly $5 million, supports the "Cultivate IQ - Empowering Regional Food Systems" project. The other, for over $740,000, focuses on "Data-driven Agriculture to Bridge Small Farms to Regional Food Supply Chains." These projects highlight a commitment to leveraging data science for agricultural and food system improvements.

His academic contributions are reflected in a scholarly record of 57 publications, which have garnered 918 citations, and an h-index of 15. He collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Taisei Hanyu and Jackson Cothren.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 59
  • Citations: 940

Selected Publications

  • Land8Fire: A Complete Study on Wildfire Segmentation Through Comprehensive Review, Human-Annotated Multispectral Dataset, and Extensive Benchmarking (2025)
  • RSSep: Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Simultaneous Referring Remote Sensing Segmentation and Detection (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A Bi-Modular Auto Encoder-Based Unsupervised Degradation Detection Methodology for Remaining Useful Life Prediction (2024)
  • AerialFormer: Multi-Resolution Transformer for Aerial Image Segmentation (2024)
    61 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Bi-Modular Auto Encoder-Based Unsupervised Degradation Detection Methodology for Remaining Useful Life Prediction (2024)
  • VLCAP: Vision-Language with Contrastive Learning for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning (2022)
    23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • EQAdap: Equipollent Domain Adaptation Approach to Image Deblurring (2022)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Direct Aerial Visual Geolocalization Using Deep Neural Networks (2021)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • BiMaL: Bijective Maximum Likelihood Approach to Domain Adaptation in Semantic Scene Segmentation (2021)
    34 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $5,742,469 total

NSF Co-PI Dec 2023 - Nov 2026

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J Phase 2: Cultivate IQ - Empowering Regional Food Systems

Convergence Accelerator Resrch $4,998,818

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75 Collaborators 4 Institutions 1 Country

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