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Announcing our 2024 Innovation Grants program! Funding for #ClimateChange & #ML projects of up to $150K each, up to $1.4M total. We are grateful for the support of Quadrature Climate Foundation, Google DeepMind, Global Methane Hub and Future Earth (@futureearth.bsky.social). Learn more: climatechange.ai/calls/innovati…

📎 NEW academic working paper released: ‘Defining ‘good’: evaluation frameworks for synthetic smart meter data’, co-authored by Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University of Oxford Georgia Tech 📜 Full paper 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.11785 🔓 Unlocking granular energy demand data is key to hitting

ICYMI, the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School features a collection of coding tutorials that provide hands-on practice in using AI to address climate-related challenges. Many thanks to the amazing tutorial authors! Check out the tutorials here: climatechange.ai/tutorials?sear…

The first deadline for our #NeurIPS2024 workshop is coming up! Apply by tomorrow, Aug 8, to participate in our mentorship program as mentor or mentee. The deadline for paper submissions is Aug 29. Learn more: climatechange.ai/events/neurips…

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Join us on Oct 11 for our next Climate Change AI Discussion Seminar "Multimodal AI Approaches for Urban Microclimate Prediction and Building Analysis", featuring Urban Analytics Lab (Kunihiko Fujiwara, Binyu Lei & Xiucheng Liang)🌆 Learn more & sign up here: community.climatechange.ai/c/ccai-event-s…

Great #ClimateWeekNYC conversation last night on AI and climate change. Big thanks to our wonderful panel: Amen Ra Mashariki of Bezos Earth Fund, Suzanne DiBianca at Salesforce, MIT's Priya L. Donti, Bobby Hollis of Microsoft and Heather Quinley of Duke Energy. newsweek.com/ai-expert-says…

Interesting paper with a lot of important takeaways about: * Needing to give more "domain-informed love" to non-ML baselines that ML methods are compared against * The importance of improving incentives to report on negative results, not just positive results

At MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing we are thrilled to announce a TT position seeking an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Computing, and Health of the Planet (see here apply.interfolio.com/156251). I wanted to make a 🧵to explain a bit about what we are looking for… 1/16

VERY excited to share this faculty job search at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT CEE at the interface of computing, environment, and ecology!! Come be my colleague and join our interdisciplinary community working on Computing for the Health of the Planet! faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc

The Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel listed my amazing colleague Anita Gohdes and me among the 100 most important scientists of Berlin in 2024. 🤩 Hertie School Climate Change AI tagesspiegel.de/wissen/sie-den…

We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

🧵 Are Global South perspectives being heard at the #AIActionSummit in Paris? Climate & sustainability take centre stage at the Summit. The Coalition on Sustainable AI is also being launched, w aims to harness AI for environmental action while minimising its ecological footprint.

How can AI improve energy grid efficiency & boost renewable energy integration in Asia? 🌏 Priya L. Donti (Climate Change AI) & John Cotton (UNOPS Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership) dive into AI’s energy impact & share ways to cut its consumption—crucial for the Global South. open.spotify.com/episode/6bZPJM…

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research. bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrevie…

Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by Pratinav Seth, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution). More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032

We're hiring at the Sustainability Lab IIT Gandhinagar Looking for students, interns, RAs, and collaborators working at the intersection of 🌱 Sustainability 🧠 AI 📡 Sensing Flyer attached. Details ↓