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

Carnegie Mellon

Konstantin Klemmer

University of Warwick

Mila, U. de Montréal

Nikola Milojevic-Dupont

MCC Berlin, TU Berlin

Evan D. Sherwin

Stanford University

Hari Prasanna Das

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Elemental Cognition

Ebude Antem Yolande Ebong

Eindhoven University of Technology

Jessica Fan

QuantumBlack, McKinsey

Meareg Hailemariam

Dakar American University of Science and Technology

Stanford University

John Kieffer

University of Pittsburgh

Gaiascope, Inc.

Raphaela Kotsch

University of Zurich, ZHAW

Alexandre Lacoste

Mila, Polytechnique Montréal

Ankur Mahesh

LBNL, UC Berkeley

UCPH, UC Berkeley

Microsoft AI for Good, MIT

Geneviève Patterson

Andrew Slavin Ross

Harvard University

Maria João Sousa

Katherine Stapleton

World Bank & Oxford University

Isabelle Tingzon

Thinking Machines Data Science

Yumna Yusuf

Climate policy, COP26

Advisors

Mila, U. de Montréal

Jennifer Chayes

MCC Berlin, TU Berlin

Stanford University

Cornell University

Konrad P. Körding

University of Pennsylvania

Carnegie Mellon

Stanford University

Organizational Structure

CCAI Chairs

Priya L. Donti
Lynn H. Kaack
David Rolnick

Content Committee

Sasha Luccioni (Committee Co-chair)
Nikola Milojevic-Dupont (Committee Co-chair)
Ebude Antem Yolande Ebong (Wiki)
Lauren Kuntz (Course)
Alexandre Lacoste
Tegan Maharaj
Ankur Mahesh (Tutorials)
Geneviève Patterson (Course)
Isabelle Tingzon (Tutorials)
Marcus Voss (Wiki)

Communications Committee

Konstantin Klemmer (Committee Chair)
Ján Drgoňa (Forum)
Jesse Dunietz (Media Relations)
Wei-Wei Lin (Website & Design)
Andrew Ross (Website)
Katherine Stapleton (Strategic Outreach)
Kasia Tokarska (Newsletter)

Programs Committee

Evan D. Sherwin (Committee Chair)
Hari Prasanna Das (Summer School)
Jessica Fan (Industry Events)
Meareg Hailemariam (Webinar)
Jeremy Irvin (Summer School)
John Kieffer (Community Events)
Konstantin Klemmer
Felipe Oviedo (Webinar)
Maria João Sousa (Summer School)
Yumna Yusuf (Happy Hours)

Community Leads

David Dao (Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use)
Priya L. Donti (Power Sector)
Lynn H. Kaack (Public Sector)
Raphaela Kotsch (Economics & Markets)
Nikola Milojevic-Dupont (Buildings and Transportation)
Kelton Minor (Computational Social Sciences)
David Rolnick (Tech Industry and ML Academia)
Katherine Stapleton (International Organizations)
Kasia Tokarska (Climate and Earth Sciences)

Former Core Team Members

Natasha Jaques
Kelly Kochanski
Kris Sankaran
Anna Waldman-Brown
Sharon Zhou

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”