ICLR 2023 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

About

Many in the ML community wish to take action on climate change, but are unsure of the pathways through which they can have the most impact. This workshop highlights work that demonstrates that, while no silver bullet, ML can be an invaluable tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in helping society adapt to the effects of climate change. Climate change is a complex problem, for which action takes many forms - from theoretical advances to deployment of new technology. Many of these actions represent high-impact opportunities for real-world change, and are simultaneously interesting academic research problems.

This workshop is part of a series (NeurIPS 2022, NeurIPS 2021, ICML 2021, NeurIPS 2020, ICLR 2020, NeurIPS 2019, and ICML 2019).

Climate change disproportionally affects people and environments in low- and middle-income countries. For this iteration of the workshop, we aim to explore the connection between global perspectives and local challenges in the context of employing machine learning to tackle climate change. As this is the first time one of the top machine learning conferences is being hosted in-person outside the Global North, we want to take this opportunity to shine a light on work that employs, analyzes, or critiques ML methods and their use for climate change mitigation and adaptation in low- and middle-income countries.

About the Workshop

This workshop was held on May 4, 2023 as part of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), one of the premier conferences on machine learning. The schedule and links to papers are available below.

Schedule Full Recording

Time (Workshop) Event
Opening Remarks
Keynote: Racine Ly (AKADEMIYA2063)
Break
Panel: Resource-Efficient Machine Learning
Details: (click to expand) Panelists:
  • Sara Beery (Google, MIT)
  • Hannah Kerner (ASU)
  • Pierre Gentine (Columbia University)
  • Marc Russwurm (EPFL)
  • Maxamed Axmed (Microsoft)
Poster Session 1
Spotlight presentations
Networking lunch
Keynote: Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California)
Spotlight presentations
Break
Panel: AI for the public sector
Details: (click to expand) Panelists:
  • Marc Manyifika (World Resource Institute)
  • Abdinassir Sagar (UN-Habitat)
  • Joseph Keller (Brookings Institution)
  • Betsy Muriithi (University of Strathmore)
Poster Session 2
Spotlight presentations
Closing remarks

Accepted Works

Works were submitted to one of three tracks: Papers, Proposals, or Tutorials.

Click the links below for information about each submission, including slides and papers.

Papers

Title Authors
(4) Mitigating climate and health impact of small-scale kiln industry using multi-spectral classifier and deep learning Usman Nazir (Lahore University of Management Sciences); Murtaza Taj (Lahore University of Management Sciences); Momin Uppal (Lahore University of Management Sciences); Sara khalid (University of Oxford)
(5) Global Flood Prediction: a Multimodal Machine Learning Approach Cynthia Zeng (MIT); Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT)
(6) Improving global high-resolution Earth system model simulations of precipitation with generative adversarial networks Philipp Hess (Technical University of Munich)
(7) Machine Learning for Advanced Building Construction Hilary Egan (NREL); Clement Fouquet (Trimble Inc.); Chioke Harris (NREL)
(8) Coregistration of Satellite Image Time Series Through Alignment of Road Networks Andres Felipe Perez Murcia (University of Manitoba); Pooneh Maghoul (University of Manitoba); Ahmed Ashraf (University of Manitoba)
(9) Estimating Residential Solar Potential using Aerial Data Ross Goroshin (Google); Carl Elkin (Google)
(10) Improving extreme weather events detection with light-weight neural networks Romain Lacombe (Stanford University); Hannah Grossman (Stanford); Lucas P Hendren (Stanford University); David Ludeke (Stanford University)
(11) CaML: Carbon Footprinting of Products with Zero-Shot Semantic Text Similarity Bharathan Balaji (Amazon); Venkata Sai Gargeya Vunnava (amazon); Geoffrey Guest (Amazon); Jared Kramer (Amazon)
(13) Long-lead forecasts of wintertime air stagnation index in southern China using oceanic memory effects Chenhong Zhou (Hong Kong Baptist University); Xiaorui Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University); Meng Gao (Hong Kong Baptist University); Shanshan Liu (University of science and technology of China); Yike Guo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Jie Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University)
(14) Attention-based Domain Adaptation Forecasting of Streamflow in Data-Sparse Regions Roland R Oruche (University of Missouri-Columbia); Fearghal O'Donncha (IBM Research)
(16) Unsupervised machine learning techniques for multi-model comparison: A case study on Antarctic Intermediate Water in CMIP6 models Ophelie Meuriot (Imperial College London); Yves Plancherel (Imperial College London); Veronica Nieves (University of Valencia)
(17) An automatic mobile approach for Tree DBH Estimation Using a Depth Map and a Regression Convolutional Neural Network Margaux Masson-Forsythe (Earthshot Labs); Margaux Masson-Forsythe (Earthshot Labs)
(18) Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Price-Based Demand Response Hannah Markgraf (Technical University of Munich); Matthias Althoff (Technical University of Munich)
(19) BurnMD: A Fire Projection and Mitigation Modeling Dataset Marissa Dotter (MITRE Corporation)
(20) MAHTM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Hierarchical Transactive Microgrids Nicolas M Cuadrado (MBZUAI); Roberto Alejandro Gutierrez Guillen (MBZUAI); Yongli Zhu (Texas A&M University); Martin Takac (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
(21) Improving a Shoreline Forecasting Model with Symbolic Regression Mahmoud AL NAJAR (Laboratory of Spatial Geophysics and Oceanography Studies); Rafael ALMAR (Laboratory of Spatial Geophysics and Oceanography Studies); Erwin BERGSMA (CNES); Jean-Marc DELVIT (CNES); Dennis Wilson (ISAE)
(22) Remote Control: Debiasing Remote Sensing Predictions for Causal Inference Matthew Gordon (Yale); Megan Ayers (Yale University); Eliana Stone (Yale School of the Environment); Luke C Sanford (Yale School of the Environment)
(23) A simplified machine learning based wildfire ignition model from insurance perspective Yaling Liu (OurKettle Inc); Son Le (OurKettle Inc.); Yufei Zou (Our Kettle, Inc.); mojtaba Sadgedhi (OurKettle Inc.); Yang Chen (University of California, Irvine); Niels Andela (BeZero Carbon); Pierre Gentine (Columbia University)
(24) Nested Fourier Neural Operator for Basin-Scale 4D CO2 Storage Modeling Gege Wen (Stanford University)
(25) SEA LEVEL PROJECTIONS WITH MACHINE LEARNING USING ALTIMETRY AND CLIMATE MODEL ENSEMBLES Saumya Sinha (University of Colorado, Boulder); John Fasullo (NCAR); R. Steven Nerem (Univesity of Colorado, Boulder); Claire Monteleoni (University of Colorado Boulder)
(26) Global-Local Policy Search and Its Application in Grid-Interactive Building Control Xiangyu Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory); Yue Chen (National Renewable Energy Laboratory); Andrey Bernstein (NREL)
(27) Accuracy is not the only Metric that matters: Estimating the Energy Consumption of Deep Learning Models Johannes Getzner (Technical University of Munich); Bertrand Charpentier (Technical University of Munich); Stephan Günnemann (Technical University of Munich)
(28) Topology Estimation from Voltage Edge Sensing for Resource-Constrained Grids Mohini S Bariya (nLine); Genevieve Flaspohler (nLine)
(29) Chasing Low-Carbon Electricity for Practical and Sustainable DNN Training Zhenning Yang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Luoxi Meng (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Jae-Won Chung (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
(30) SOLAR PANEL MAPPING VIA ORIENTED OBJECT DETECTION Conor Wallace (DroneBase); Isaac Corley (University of Texas at San Antonio); Jonathan Lwowski (DroneBase)
(33) Widespread increases in future wildfire risk to global forest carbon offset projects revealed by explainable AI Tristan Ballard (Sust Inc); Gopal Erinjippurath (Sust Global); Matthew W Cooper (Sust Global); Chris Lowrie (Sust Global)
(34) A High-Resolution, Data-Driven Model of Urban Carbon Emissions Best Pathway to Impact Bartosz Bonczak (New York University); Boyeong Hong (New York University); Constantine E. Kontokosta (New York University)
(35) ClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate Tung Nguyen (University of California, Los Angeles); Johannes Brandstetter (Microsoft Research); Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft); Jayesh Gupta (Microsoft Research); Aditya Grover (UCLA)
(36) Learning to Communicate and Collaborate in a Competitive Multi-Agent Setup to Clean the Ocean from Macroplastics Philipp D Siedler (Aleph Alpha)
(38) Mining Effective Strategies for Climate Change Communication Aswin Suresh (EPFL); Lazar Milikic (EPFL); Francis Murray (EPFL); Yurui Zhu (EPFL); Matthias Grossglauser (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
(39) Graph-Based Deep Learning for Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts Ding Ning (University of Canterbury); Varvara Vetrova (University of Canterbury); Karin Bryan (University of Waikato)
(40) Activity-Based Recommendations for the Reduction of CO2 Emissions in Private Households Alona Zharova (Humboldt University of Berlin); Laura Löschmann (Humboldt University of Berlin)
(41) Data-driven mean-variability optimization of PV portfolios with automatic differentiation Matthias Zech (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Networked Energy Systems); Lueder von Bremen (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Networked Energy Systems)
(42) DiffESM: Conditional Emulation of Earth System Models with Diffusion Models Seth Bassetti (Western Washington University); Brian Hutchinson (Western Washington University); Claudia Tebaldi (Joint Global Change Research Institute); Ben Kravitz (Indiana University)
(43) Emission-Constrained Optimization of Gas Systems with Input-Convex Neural Networks Vladimir Dvorkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Samuel C Chevalier (Technical University of Denmark); Spyros Chatzivasileiadis (Technical University of Denmark)
(44) Deep ensembles to improve uncertainty quantification of statistical downscaling models under climate change conditions Jose González-Abad (Instituto de Fı́sica de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria); Jorge Baño-Medina (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
(45) Bayesian Inference of Severe Hail in Australia Isabelle C Greco (University of New South Wales); Steven Sherwood (University of New South Wales); Timothy Raupach (University of New South Wales); Gab Abramowitz (University of New South Wales)
(46) Exploring the potential of neural networks for Species Distribution Modeling Robin Zbinden (EPFL); Nina van Tiel (EPFL); Benjamin Kellenberger (Yale University); Lloyd H Hughes (EPFL); Devis Tuia (EPFL)
(47) Modelling Atmospheric Dynamics with Spherical Fourier Neural Operators Boris Bonev (NVIDIA); Thorsten Kurth (Nvidia); Christian Hundt (NVIDIA AI Technology Center); Jaideep Pathak (NVIDIA Corporation); Maximilian Baust (NVIDIA); Karthik Kashinath (NVIDIA); Anima Anandkumar (NVIDIA/Caltech)
(48) Distributed Reinforcement Learning for DC Open Energy Systems Qiong Huang (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University); Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
(49) Uncovering the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wind Resources in Europe: A Web-Based Data-Mining Tool Alban Puech (École Polytechnique); Jesse Read (Ecole Polytechnique)
(51) Improving the spatial accuracy of extreme tropical cyclone rainfall in ERA5 using deep learning Guido Ascenso (Politecnico di Milano); Andrea Ficchì (Politecnico di Milano); Matteo Giuliani (Politecnico di Milano); Leone Cavicchia (Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)); Enrico Scoccimarro (Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)); Andrea Castelletti (Politecnico di Milano)
(52) XAI for transparent wind turbine power curve models Simon Letzgus (Technische Universität Berlin)
(53) Green AutoML for Plastic Litter Detection Daphne Theodorakopoulos (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Marine Perception Department and Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Artificial Intelligence); Christoph Manß (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Marine Perception Department); Frederic Stahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Marine Perception Department); Marius Lindauer (Leibniz University Hannover)
(56) EfficientTempNet: Temporal Super-Resolution of Radar Rainfall Bekir Z Demiray (University of Iowa); Muhammed A Sit (The University of Iowa); Ibrahim Demir (University of Iowa)
(57) Bird Distribution Modelling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science data Overall Best Paper Mélisande Teng (Mila, Université de Montréal); Amna Elmustafa (African Institute for Mathematical Science); Benjamin Akera (McGill University); Hugo Larochelle (UdeS); David Rolnick (McGill University, Mila)
(58) Efficient HVAC Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning and EnergyPlus Jared Markowitz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory); Nathan Drenkow (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
(59) Fourier Neural Operators for Arbitrary Resolution Climate Data Downscaling Qidong Yang (New York University); Paula Harder (Fraunhofer ITWM); Venkatesh Ramesh (University of Montreal, Mila); Alex Hernandez-Garcia (Mila - Quebec AI Institute); Daniela Szwarcman (IBM Research); Prasanna Sattigeri (IBM Research); Campbell D Watson (IBM Reserch); David Rolnick (McGill University, Mila)
(60) Data-driven multiscale modeling of subgrid parameterizations in climate models Best ML Innovation Karl Otness (New York University); Laure Zanna (NYU); Joan Bruna (NYU)
(62) Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solar-Battery System to Mitigate Solar Curtailment in Real-Time Electricity Market Jinhao Li (Monash University); Changlong Wang (Monash University); Hao Wang (Monash University)
(64) On the impact of small-data diversity on forecasts: evidence from meteorologically-driven electricity demand in Mediterranean zones. Reginald Bryant (IBM Research - Africa); Julian Kuehnert (IBM Research)

Proposals

Title Authors
(12) Graph Neural Network Generated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture Zikri Bayraktar (Schlumberger Doll Research); Shahnawaz Molla (Schlumberger Doll Research); Sharath Mahavadi (Schlumberger Doll Research)
(15) Predicting Cycling Traffic in Cities: Is bike-sharing data representative of the cycling volume? Silke K. Kaiser (Hertie School)
(31) Disentangling observation biases to monitor spatio-temporal shifts in species distributions Diego Marcos (Inria); Christophe Botella (); Ilan Havinga (Wageningen University); Dino Ienco (INRAE); Cassio F. Dantas (TETIS, INRAE, Univ Montpellier); Pierre Alliez (INRIA Sophie-Antipolis, France); Alexis Joly (INRIA, FR)
(32) Mapping global innovation networks around clean energy technologies Malte Toetzke (ETH Zurich); Francesco Re (ETH Zurich); Benedict Probst (ETH Zurich); Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich); Laura Diaz Anadon (University of Cambridge); Volker Hoffmann (ETH Zurich)
(37) Sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts through self-supervised learning Jannik Thuemmel (University of Tuebingen); Felix Strnad (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research); Jakob Schlör (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen); Martin V. Butz (University of Tübingen); Bedartha Goswami (University of Tübingen)
(50) Understanding forest resilience to drought with Shapley values Stenka Vulova (Technische Universität Berlin); Alby Duarte Rocha (Technische Universität Berlin); Akpona Okujeni (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Johannes Vogel (Freie Universität Berlin); Michael Förster (Technische Universität Berlin); Patrick Hostert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Birgit Kleinschmit (Technische Universität Berlin)
(54) Robustly modeling the nonlinear impact of climate change on agriculture by combining econometrics and machine learning Benedetta Francesconi (Independent Researcher); Ying-Jung C Deweese (Descartes Labs / Georgia Insititute of Technology)
(55) Towards Green, Accurate, and Efficient AI Models Through Multi-Objective Optimization Udit Gupta (Harvard University); Daniel R Jiang (Meta); Maximilian Balandat (Facebook); Carole-Jean Wu (Meta AI)
(61) Decision-aware uncertainty-calibrated deep learning for robust energy system operation Christopher Yeh (California Institute of Technology); Nicolas Christianson (California Institute of Technology); Steven Low (California Institute of Technology); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology); Yisong Yue (Caltech)
(63) Projecting the climate penalty on pm2.5 pollution with spatial deep learning Mauricio Tec (Harvard University); Riccardo Cadei (Harvard University); Francesca Dominici (Harvard University); Corwin Zigler (University of Texas at Austin)
(65) Artificial Intelligence in Tropical Cyclone Forecasting Dr. Nusrat Sharmin (Military Institute of Science and Technology); Professor Dr. Md. Mahbubur Rahman Rahman (Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)); Sabbir Rahman (Military Institute of Science and Technology); Mokhlesur Rahman (Military Institute of Science and Technology)

Tutorials

Title Authors
(1) Tutorial: Quantus x Climate - Applying explainable AI evaluation in climate science Philine L Bommer (TU Berlin); Anna Hedström (Technische Universität Berlin); Marlene Kretschmer (University of Reading); Marina M.-C. Höhne (TU Berlin)
(2) CityLearn: A Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning Control for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings and Communities Kingsley E Nweye (The University of Texas at Austin); Allen Wu (The University of Texas at Austin); Hyun Park (The University of Texas at Austin); Yara Almilaify (The University of Texas at Austin); Zoltan Nagy (The University of Texas at Austin)
(3) Smart Meter Data Analytics: Practical Use-Cases and Best Practices of Machine Learning Applications for Energy Data in the Residential Sector Tobias Brudermueller (ETH Zurich); Markus Kreft (ETH Zurich)

Call for Submissions

We invite submissions of short papers using machine learning to address problems in climate mitigation, adaptation, or modeling, including but not limited to the following topics:

All machine learning techniques are welcome, from kernel methods to deep learning. Each submission should make clear why the application has (or could have) a pathway to positive impacts regarding climate change. This year, we especially invite work that addresses, contextualizes and critiques the deployment of machine learning for tackling climate change in low- and middle income countries. We highly encourage submissions which make their data publicly available. Accepted submissions will be invited to give poster presentations, of which some will be selected for spotlight talks.

The workshop does not publish proceedings, and submissions are non-archival. Submission to this workshop does not preclude future publication. Previously published work may be submitted under certain circumstances (see the FAQ).

All papers and proposals submissions must be through the submission website. Submissions will be reviewed double-blind; do your best to anonymize your submission, and do not include identifying information for authors in the PDF. Authors are required to use the workshop style template (based on the ICLR style files), available for LaTeX.

All tutorial submissions must be through the submission website.

Please see the Tips for Submissions and FAQ, and contact climatechangeai.iclr2023@gmail.com with questions.

Submission Tracks

There are three tracks for submissions: (i) Papers, (ii) Proposals and (iii) Tutorials. Submissions are limited to 4 pages for the Papers track, and 3 pages for the Proposals track, in PDF format (see examples from previous workshops here). References do not count towards this total. Supplementary appendices are allowed but will be read at the discretion of the reviewers. All submissions must explain why the proposed work has (or could have) positive impacts regarding climate change.

PAPERS Track

Work that is in progress, published, and/or deployed.

Submissions for the Papers track should describe projects relevant to climate change that involve machine learning. These may include (but are not limited to) academic research; deployed results from startups, industry, public institutions, etc.; and climate-relevant datasets.

Submissions should provide experimental or theoretical validation of the method presented, as well as specifying what gap the method fills. Authors should clearly illustrate a pathway to climate impact, i.e., identify the way in which this work fits into broader efforts to address climate change. Algorithms need not be novel from a machine learning perspective if they are applied in a novel setting. Details of methodology need not be revealed if they are proprietary, though transparency is highly encouraged.

Submissions creating novel datasets are welcome. Datasets should be properly documented with regards to their provenance and contents and designed to permit machine learning research (e.g. formatted with clear benchmarks for evaluation).

PROPOSALS Track

Early-stage work and detailed descriptions of ideas for future work.

Submissions for the Proposals track should describe detailed ideas for how machine learning can be used to solve climate-relevant problems. While less constrained than the Papers track, Proposals will be subject to a very high standard of review. Ideas should be justified as extensively as possible, including motivation for why the problem being solved is important in tackling climate change, discussion of why current methods are inadequate, explanation of the proposed method, and discussion of the pathway to climate impact. Preliminary results are optional.

TUTORIALS Track

Interactive notebooks for insightful step-by-step walkthroughs

Submissions for the Tutorials track should introduce or demonstrate the use of machine learning methods and tools (e.g. libraries, packages, services, datasets, or frameworks) to address climate-relevant challenges. Tutorial proposals (due Jan 20) should take the form of an abstract and include a clear and concise description of what users can expect to learn from the tutorial. For accepted proposals, the initial draft of the tutorial submissions (due Feb 24) and final tutorial submissions (due March 31) should be in the form of executable notebooks and follow the CCAI Tutorial Template. Authors must submit the notebook in a self-contained runnable environment (e.g. Colab, Binder) to allow users and reviewers to easily access and run the tutorial notebook.

Tutorial proposal submissions will be reviewed based on their potential impact and usability by the climate and AI research community. Submissions will also be assessed based on the originality of the problem space; for this, kindly review our list of CCAI tutorials to minimize substantial overlap with existing tutorials. Notebook submissions will be assessed based on clarity, accessibility, and code quality. Lastly, we ask authors to emphasize the real-world impact of the ML models in the tutorial by answering questions such as: Who will be using the models/outputs and how will they be used? What decisions will be made based on these models? How will this impact existing systems/the environment/affected communities on the ground?

For more information on the tutorial proposal guidelines, kindly check this document.

Tips for Submissions

Addressing Impact

Tackling climate change requires translating ideas into action. The guidelines below will help you clearly present the importance of your work to a broad audience, hopefully including relevant decision-makers in industry, government, nonprofits, and other areas.

Interactive Q&A

If you have further questions on how to participate in the workshop, you can ask those directly via the interactive Q&A session hosted on our community platform. You can also always contact us via email at climatechangeai.iclr2023@gmail.com. For recordings of informational webinars of previous editions of our workshop, please see here.

Organizers

Sasha Luccioni (Huggingface)
Konstantin Klemmer (Microsoft)
Simone Nsutezo Fobi (Microsoft)
Rasika Bhalerao (Northeastern University)
Utkarsha Agwan (UC Berkeley)
Marcus Voss (Birds on Mars, TU Berlin)
Olalekan Akintande (University of Ibadan)
Yoshua Bengio (Mila, Université de Montréal)

Tutorials Track Organizers

Shafat Rahman (Climate Change AI)
Isabelle Tingzon (Climate Change AI)
Melanie Hanna (DataRobot)

Mentors

Heather Couture (Pixel Scientia Labs)
Juan Francisco Venegas Gutierrez (Universidad Austral de Chile)
Fatma Tarlaci (OpenTeams)
Elie Alhajjar (USMA)
Sadid Hasan (Microsoft)
Alberto Costa Nogueira Junior (IBM Research)
Andrii Krutsylo (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Ying-Jung Chen Deweese (Descartes Labs)
Bharathan Balaji (Amazon)
James Doss-Gollin (Rice University)
Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency)
Sara Khalid (University of Oxford)
Yongli Zhu Texas (A&M University)
Ahmed Ragab (Natural Resources Canada/Polytechnique Montreal)
Anuroop Sriram (Meta AI )
Karagiannis Xenofon (Earth-i)
Dr Varvara Vetrova (University of Canterbury)
Jesse Nyokabi Quaise (Energy Africa)
Lamis Amer (University of Miami)
Dennis Wilson (ISAE-Supaero, University of Toulouse)
Komal Pradeep Dhoka (SICSR)

Program Committee

Alan Fortuny (Adidas)
Alberto Chapchap (GS Cap)
Alexander Pondaven (Imperial College London)
Alexandra Puchko (Kettle RE)
Alona Zharova (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam (Arizona State University)
amirmohammad naeini (York University)
Andreas Maier (Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Aneesh Rangnekar (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Anna Kwa (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Antoine Blanchard (Verisk)
Ashwin Ramesh Babu (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs)
Bartosz Pieliński (University of Warsaw)
Bedartha Goswami (University of Tübingen)
Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency (ESA))
Brian Hutchinson (Western Washington University)
Chace Ashcraft (JHU/APL)
Charles Anderson (Colorado State University)
Christian Lessig (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg)
Clayton Sanford (Columbia)
Damon Matthews (Concordia University)
Damon Wischik (Univeristy of Cambridge)
Dan Lu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Danica Vukadinovic Greetham (Capgemini Engineering)
Daniel Salles Civitarese (IBM Research, Brazil)
Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira (Technische Universität München)
David Rolnick (McGill University, Mila)
David Russell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Difan Zhang (PNNL)
Donghu Guo (Imperial College London)
Donna Vakalis (University of Toronto)
Eleanor Casas (Naval Postgraduate School)
Elham Kheradmand (University of Montreal)
Evan Sherwin (Stanford University, Energy and Resources Engineering)
Fred Otieno (IBM)
Frederik Gerzer (Recogni)
Gege Wen (Stanford University)
Hamid Alizadeh Pahlavan (Rice University)
Hao Sheng (Stanford University)
Hari Prasanna Das (UC Berkeley)
Henry Addison (University of Bristol)
Hovig Bayandorian ()
Isabelle Tingzon (Climate Change AI)
Jan Drgona (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Jonathan Fürst (NEC Laboratories Europe)
Jorge Montalvo Arvizu (Solario)
Joris Guerin (LAAS-CNRS)
Joseph Early (University of Southampton)
Joyjit Chatterjee (University of Hull)
Julian de Hoog (The University of Melbourne)
Kaiser Olga (UNIversity)
Katarzyna B. Tokarska (ETH Zurich)
Kate Duffy (BAER Institute / NASA)
Ken C. L. Wong (IBM Research – Almaden Research Center)
Kevin McCloskey (Google)
Kris Sankaran (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Kritika Gadpayle (CSTEP)
Kyle Bradbury (Duke University)
Kyongsik Yun (California Institute of Technology)
Lucas Spangher (UC Berkeley)
Lukas Kondmann (German Aerospace Center)
Mahdi Torabi Rad (Beyond Limits)
Manmeet Singh (The University of Texas at Austin)
Marc Rußwurm (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Marcel Hussing (University of Pennsylvania)
Maria João Sousa (Cornell Tech, Cornell University)
Mark Roth (Climate LLC)
Markus Leippold (University of Zurich)
Markus Zechner (Stanford University)
Massimo Bollasina (University of Edinburgh)
Matias Quintana (National University of Singapore)
Matteo Turchetta (ETH Zurich)
Matthias Hertel (KIT)
Mayank Jain (University College Dublin)
Meareg Hailemariam (UC Berkeley)
Melanie Hanna (DataRobot)
Milan Jain (PNNL)
Mohamed Elhabashy (MIT)
Muhammad Kasim (University of Oxford)
Nahian Ahmed (Oregon State University)
Niccolo Dalmasso (J.P. Morgan Chase)
Nicole Ludwig (University of Tübingen)
Noman Bashir (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Norhan Bayomi (MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative)
Olivia Mendivil Ramos (OneThree Biotech)
Paul Griffiths (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge University)
Peer Nowack (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Peetak Mitra (Excarta)
Philip Popien (Floodbase)
Priya Donti (Climate Change AI)
Qiao Kang (Memorial University)
Raghul Parthipan (University of Cambridge)
Rambod Mojgani (Rice University)
Redouane Lguensat (IPSL)
Rishikesh Ranade (Ansys Inc)
Robin Dunn (Novartis)
Rodrigo Rene Rai Munoz Abujder (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
Ruben Cartuyvels (KU Leuven)
Sam Silva (The University of Southern California)
Samarth Vadia (LMU Munich)
Sara El Mekkaoui (EMI Engineering School)
Sebastian Ruf (Northeastern University)
Shafat Rahman (Climate Change AI)
Shahine Bouabid (University of Oxford)
Shannon Lloyd (Concordia University)
Shiheng Duan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Shruti Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Science)
Simiao Ren
Siming Bayer (Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University)
Simon Letzgus (Technische Universität Berlin)
So Takao (UCL)
Subhashis Hazarika (Palo Alto Research Center)
Sudipan Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Swati Sharma (Microsoft Research)
Tarek Alskaif (Wageningen University)
Themis Sapsis (MIT)
Thomas Walther (Utrecht University)
Tianle Yuan (NASA)
Tongxin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen))
Veruska Muccione (University of Zurich)
Victoria Preston (WHOI)
Vili Hätönen (Emblica)
Yanru Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Yimeng Min (Cornell University)
Ying-Jung Deweese (Descartes Labs / Georgia Insititute of Technology)
Zhecheng Wang (Stanford University)
Zikri Bayraktar (Schlumberger Doll Research)
Zoltan Nagy (The University of Texas at Austin)

Mentorship Program

We are hosting a mentorship program to facilitate exchange between potential workshop submitters and experts working in topic areas relevant to the workshop. The goal of this program is to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations and ultimately increase the quality and potential impact of submitted work.

Expectations:

Mentors are expected to guide mentees during the CCAI mentorship program as they prepare submissions for this workshop.

Examples of mentor-mentee interactions may include:

Mentees are expected to initiate contact with their assigned mentor and put in the work and effort necessary to prepare a Paper or Proposal submission by Feb 10.

We suggest that after the mentor-mentee matching is made, a first (physical or digital) meeting should take place within the first week (Jan 10-17) to discuss the Paper or Proposal and set expectations for the mentorship period. Subsequent interactions can take place either through meetings or via email discussions, following the expectations set during the initial meeting, culminating in a final version of a Paper or Proposal submitted via the CMT portal by Feb 10.

Mentors and mentees must abide by the following Code of Conduct: https://www.climatechange.ai/code_of_conduct.

Application

Applications are due by Jan 10. We will post a link with the mentor / mentee application forms shortly.

Sponsors

Frequently Asked Questions

Mentorship Program FAQ

Q: Are mentors allowed to be authors on the paper for which they provided mentorship?
A: Yes, mentors can be co-authors but not reviewers.

Q: What happens if the mentor/mentee does not fulfill their duties, or if major issues come up?
A: Please email us at climatechangeai.iclr2023@gmail.com and we will do our best to help resolve the situation. Potential breaches of the Code of Conduct will be responded to promptly as detailed therein.

Q: What happens if I apply to be a mentee but do not get paired with a mentor?
A: While we will do our best, we cannot guarantee pairings for everyone. Even if you do not get paired with a mentor, we encourage you to submit a Paper or Proposal to the workshop, and our reviewers will provide you with guidance and feedback on how to improve it.

Q: What happens if my submission does not get accepted to the workshop?
A: While the mentorship program is meant to give early-career researchers and students the opportunity to improve the quality of their work, sometimes submissions will need further polishing and elaboration before being ready for presentation at a CCAI workshop. If this is the case, we invite you to take into account the comments made by the reviewers and to resubmit again to a subsequent CCAI workshop.

Q: I cannot guarantee that I can commit at least 4 hours to the program over the time period. Should I still apply as a mentor?
A: No. While the 4 hour time commitment is a suggestion, we do believe that it is necessary to ensure that all mentees receive the help and guidance they need.

Q: I do not have a background in machine learning; can I still apply to be a mentor/mentee?
A: Yes! We welcome applications from domains that are complementary to machine learning to solve the problems that we are targeting.

Q: What happens if my mentor/mentee wants to continue meeting after the workshop?
A: We welcome and encourage continued interactions after the official mentorship period. That said, neither the mentor nor the mentee should feel obligated to maintain contact.

Submission FAQ

Q: How can I keep up to date on this kind of stuff?
A: Sign up for our mailing list!

Q: I’m not in machine learning. Can I still submit?
A: Yes, absolutely! We welcome submissions from many fields. Do bear in mind, however, that the majority of attendees of the workshop will have a machine learning background; therefore, other fields should be introduced sufficiently to provide context for the work.

Q: What if my submission is accepted but I can’t attend the workshop?
A: You may ask someone else to present your work in your stead.

Q: It’s hard for me to fit my submission on 3 or 4 pages. What should I do?
A: Feel free to include appendices with additional material (these should be part of the same PDF file as the main submission). Do not, however, put essential material in an appendix, as it will be read at the discretion of the reviewers.

Q: Can I send submissions directly by email?
A: No, please use the CMT website to make submissions.

Q: The submission website is asking for my name. Is this a problem for anonymization?
A: You should fill out your name and other info when asked on the submission website; CMT will keep your submission anonymous to reviewers.

Q: Do submissions for the Proposals track need to have experimental validation?
A: No, although some initial experiments or citation of published results would strengthen your submission.

Q: The submission website never sent me a confirmation email. Is this a problem?
A: No, the CMT system does not send automatic confirmation emails after a submission, though the submission should show up on the CMT page once submitted. If in any doubt regarding the submission process, please contact the organizers. Also please avoid making multiple submissions of the same article to CMT.

Q: Can I submit previously published work to this workshop?
A: Yes, though under limited circumstances. In particular, work that has previously been published at non-machine learning venues may be eligible for submission; however, work that has been published in conferences on machine learning or related fields is likely not eligible. If your work was previously accepted to a Climate Change AI workshop, this work should have changed or matured substantively to be eligible for resubmission. Please contact climatechangeai.iclr2023@gmail.com with any questions.

Q: Can I submit work to this workshop if I am also submitting to another ICLR 2023 workshop?
A: Yes. We cannot, however, guarantee that you will not be expected to present the material at a time that conflicts with the other workshop.