About Climate Change AI
Climate Change AI (CCAI) is an organization composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted societal action, in which machine learning can play an impactful role. Since it was founded in June 2019, CCAI has led the creation of a global movement in climate change and machine learning, encompassing researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, companies, and NGOs.
Our Mission
To catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.
Our Goals
- To build a community of diverse stakeholders.
- To guide impactful work through educational resources and programs.
- To fill gaps in essential infrastructure such as funding, tools, and datasets.
- To advance discourse and advise relevant players.
People
Core Team
David Rolnick
McGill, Mila
Priya L. Donti
Carnegie Mellon
Lynn H. Kaack
ETH Zürich
Kris Sankaran
UW Madison
Sasha Luccioni
Mila, U. de Montréal
Andrew Slavin Ross
Harvard University
Kelly Kochanski
CU Boulder
Alexandre Lacoste
Element AI
Nikola Milojevic-Dupont
MCC Berlin, TU Berlin
Konstantin Klemmer
University of Warwick
Tegan Maharaj
Mila, Polytechnique Montréal
Evan D. Sherwin
Stanford University
Sharon Zhou
Stanford University
David Dao
ETH Zurich
Yumna Yusuf
International Climate Strategy and Negotiations, UK Gov
Advisors
Yoshua Bengio
Mila, U. de Montréal
Jennifer Chayes
UC Berkeley
Felix Creutzig
MCC Berlin, TU Berlin
John C. Platt
Google AI
Demis Hassabis
DeepMind
Andrew Y. Ng
Stanford University
Carla Gomes
Cornell University
Konrad P. Körding
University of Pennsylvania
Zico Kolter
Carnegie Mellon
Inês Azevedo
Stanford University
Tobias Schmidt
ETH Zürich
Craig Smith
Eye on AI
Organizational Structure
CCAI Chairs
- David Rolnick
- Priya L. Donti
- Lynn H. Kaack
Content Committee
- Sasha Luccioni (Committee Chair)
- Alexandre Lacoste
- Tegan Maharaj
- Kris Sankaran
Communications Committee
- Konstantin Klemmer (Committee Chair, Social Media Lead)
- Kris Sankaran (Newsletter Lead, Forum Lead)
- Andrew Ross (Web Lead)
Programs Committee
- Evan D. Sherwin (Committee Chair)
- Yumna Yusuf (Meetups Lead)
- Konstantin Klemmer
Community Leads
- David Rolnick (Tech Industry and ML Academia)
- Priya L. Donti (Power Sector)
- Lynn H. Kaack (Public Sector and International Organizations)
- Kelly Kochanski (Climate and Earth Sciences)
- Nikola Milojevic-Dupont (Buildings and Transportation)
- David Dao (Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use)
- Sharon Zhou (Entrepreneurship)
Press
Releases
- Nov. 11, 2019: press release and press packet
Selected coverage
- “Not Cool: A Climate Podcast” by the Future of Life Institute: Part 1 and Part 2
- Eye on A.I. podcast: “Climate Change and AI”
- National Geographic: “How artificial intelligence can tackle climate change”
- The Verge: “Here’s how AI can help fight climate change according to the field’s top thinkers”
- MIT Technology Review: “Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change”