Two Climate Change AI Co-Founders Named Among MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”
July 01, 2021 21:06 ET | Source: Climate Change AI Climate Change AI
SAN FRANCISCO, July 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Climate Change AI’s David Rolnick and Priya Donti have been named to
MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of
“35 Innovators Under 35.” Each year, the venerable publication honors young innovators worldwide whose work holds “the greatest potential to transform the world.”
Rolnick and Donti were both recognized for their research and engagement in climate change and machine learning, encompassing topics such as optimizing power grids and monitoring biodiversity.
The awards speak to the AI community’s growing focus on societal benefit. “It means a lot to me to see growing interest in and acceptance of applications like climate change,” says Donti.
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In a 2018 paper, decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift, a team of researchers led by EPP Ph.D. student Lynn Kaack recommended improving the efficiency of individual vehicles, measured in grams of CO2 per tonne-km. The most cost-effective way to do this, Kaack et al determined, is “Shifting as much freight as possible from road transportation to rail and water is one of the most important means for decarbonizing the freight sector.”
Shipping carries more than 90% of world trade and has continued to do so during the covid pandemic, yet is still far and away the least polluting of the world’s transport industries. Even in a world where containers are being carried across multiple landmasses over the course of a single truck journey, shipping’s exemption from the Paris climate accord has not prevented the industry from taking action. Despite its image problem in the mainstream press, shipping is arguably going beyond the call of du