Undergraduate Researcher (Student wage)

The Center for Emerging Technology Identification for Roadway Infrastructure Construction & Maintenance has developed a radar and rubric to evaluate emerging technologies for VTRC s cientists to pilot and research. This rubric has undergone several iterations of refinement through discussions with faculty and iterations with LLMs. The existing version of the radar has been created using a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) concept. The LLM compiles 30 URLs for each technology and uses them to rate the technology against the rubric. These scores are then used to place the technology on the radar. Around 90 technologies have been rated ; these were identified using a VTRC Report on Emerging Technologies in 2004 and research conducted by the Center’s post doctoral researchers.…