The Transformative Ideas Podcast (formerly the ACIT Science Podcast). This podcast is to provide a glimpse into the life of scientists: to learn about the ideas they are passionate about, to find out what gets them out of bed every day to face the challenges and frustrations of working at the frontier to the unknown, and to share in some of the most important lessons they have learned in their career. For inquiries, reach out to manu.brenn@gmail.com.
All content for The Transformative Ideas Podcast is the property of Manuel Brenner and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
The Transformative Ideas Podcast (formerly the ACIT Science Podcast). This podcast is to provide a glimpse into the life of scientists: to learn about the ideas they are passionate about, to find out what gets them out of bed every day to face the challenges and frustrations of working at the frontier to the unknown, and to share in some of the most important lessons they have learned in their career. For inquiries, reach out to manu.brenn@gmail.com.
In this episode, we are joined by Priya Donti. Priya is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Climate Change AI (CCAI), a global non-profit initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning, and an incoming assistant professor at MIT.
We discuss the influential "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning" paper, opportunities, costs and risks of AI for climate change, climate justice, Priya's research on power grid optimization, implicit layers, the work and funding of Climate Change AI, and many more topics.
For inquiries, write a mail to manu.brenn@gmail.com or reach out on Linkedin.
The Transformative Ideas Podcast
The Transformative Ideas Podcast (formerly the ACIT Science Podcast). This podcast is to provide a glimpse into the life of scientists: to learn about the ideas they are passionate about, to find out what gets them out of bed every day to face the challenges and frustrations of working at the frontier to the unknown, and to share in some of the most important lessons they have learned in their career. For inquiries, reach out to manu.brenn@gmail.com.
