From Data to Discernment
The Jah Decision Intelligence Group (JDIG) explores how knowledge arises, evolves, and guides action in complex, uncertain domains. We focus not on simplification, but on honoring the full epistemic landscape, where uncertainty is not noise to be minimized, but structure to be understood. Our work lies at the intersection of dynamical systems, possibility theory, information theory, and ethical AI.
We design systems that reason, not just compute. That decide, not just simulate. That explain, not just predict. Our goal is to enable inference architectures that support planetary stewardship, space security, and decision-making under deep uncertainty.
Core Thrusts
Epistemic Inference and Possibility Theory
Modeling uncertainty where data is sparse, ambiguous, or contested, not through optimization, but through compatibility and surprise.
Space Object Behavior and Decision Intelligence
From satellite anomaly detection to space traffic coordination, we develop frameworks that, inter alia, contextualize and interpret orbital behaviors.
Agentic Knowledge Graphs and Abductive Reasoning
Building self-reflective AI systems that connect facts, hypotheses, and actions through structured, explainable graphs.
Digital Twins for Dynamic Domains
Real-time, physics-informed replicas of systems, from orbital regimes to environmental processes, for monitoring, diagnostics, and intelligent intervention.
Philosophy of Knowing
We believe:
Measurements yield data
Data have structure, aleatory or epistemic
Structure supports models; models support inference
Inference enables prediction and decision
Prediction must be falsifiable, explainable, and ethically grounded
Knowledge is not the end of ignorance. It is what remains when ignorance is removed with care, rigor, and purpose.
Directors
Faculty and Research Staff
Students
Staff
Members outside the Oden Institute
Hariskumar Sellamuthu