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Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 10, 2024
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AAAI-24 AI for Social Impact Track Best Student Paper Award
AAAI — Feb 24, 2024
Marc Grimson et. al. "Scaling Up Pareto Optimization for Tree Structures with Affine Transformations: Evaluating Hybrid Floating Solar-Hydropower Systems in the Amazon"
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13 researchers named Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows
Cornell CIS — Dec 20, 2023
Also posted in CS News.
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop: AI for Scientific Discovery: From Theory to Practice
NeurIPS — Dec 16, 2023
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Science Is Becoming Less Human: AI is accelerating the pace of discovery—but at what cost?
The Atlantic — Dec 11, 2023
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Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Nature — Nov 29, 2023
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Big Data, AI Help Advance Ornithology
Tech Briefs — Nov 9, 2023
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New AI model gives bird's-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale
Mongabay — Nov 8, 2023
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AI analyzes bird sightings to help conserve species
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 4, 2023
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Little by little, a bird builds its nest
Nature Computational Science — Jun 26, 2023
Free access pdf available.
AI for a Sustainable Future
TU Wien Informatics — Jun 12, 2023
Wie ChatGPT die Welt verbessern kann
Future Zone — Jun 8, 2023
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Expertin: KI ist "Superkraft" für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Austria Presse Agentur Science — Jun 5, 2023
Vienna Gödel Lecture 2023: Carla P. Gomes
TU Wien Informatics — Jun 5, 2023
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Einaudi seed grants finding fertile soil
Cornell Chronicle — May 11, 2023
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AI-CLIMATE institute aims to curb emissions, boost economy
Cornell Chronicle — May 4, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Communications of the ACM — Mar 23, 2023
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10 researchers named inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows
Cornell CIS — Mar 21, 2023
Also posted in the Cornell Chronicle and CS News.
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Cornell joins Schmidt AI in Science postdoc research initiative
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 26, 2022
See also the Schidt Futures press release and the article in Forbes.
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AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 15, 2022
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Gomes Receives ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award
Cornell CIS — Jun 10, 2022
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Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let's get it right
Nature — Jun 7, 2022
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The 2030 Project to marshal faculty to solve climate crisis
Cornell Chronicle — May 12, 2022
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ACM celebrates technical achievements that drive far-reaching advances in technology
AAAS EurekAlert! — May 11, 2022
Received the ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (2021)
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Machine learning for spectral properties
Nature Computational Science — Mar 18, 2022
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Episode 4: Meet research team member SARA
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast — Mar 18, 2022
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How AI could help bring a sustainable reckoning to hydropower
Popular Science — Feb 26, 2022
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AI can help build kinder, gentler dams
Anthropocene Magazine — Feb 23, 2022
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AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 17, 2022
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Reducing negative impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion on people and nature
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies — Feb 17, 2022
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AI could optimize hydroelectric dams in the Amazon
FIU News — Feb 17, 2022
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Autonomous experiment finds stable fuel-cell material in minutes
C&EN — Dec 28, 2021
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AI powers autonomous materials discovery
Cornell Chronicle — Dec 17, 2021
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Climate-driven disease compromises seagrass health
Cornell Chronicle — Dec 10, 2021
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DRNets can solve Sudoku, speed scientific discovery
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 17, 2021
Paper featured on the Nature Machine Intelligence cover page
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Keynote Speaker for IEEE SMARTCOMP
IEEE SMARTCOMP — Aug 25, 2021
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Computational sustainability meets materials science
Nature Reviews Materials — Jul 26, 2021
A preprint (pdf) of the paper is available.
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Profile of Carla Gomes' Research on Hierarchical Machine Learning for Material Discovery
Cornell CS News — Jul 16, 2021
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Hierarchical machine learning framework pushes boundaries of multi-property material discovery
AIP Scilight — Jun 23, 2021
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Carla Gomes Receives Cornell Atkinson Grant to Study Amazonian Aquaculture
Cornell CS News — Jun 23, 2021
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Cornell Atkinson awards $1.8 million to fund vital collaborations
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 16, 2021
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Grant to accelerate AI materials discovery and design
Cornell Chronicle — May 18, 2021
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Rafael Almeida received the 2021 Hynes Award for New Investigators
Society for Freshwater Science — Mar 10, 2021
See the Hynes Award-winning publication
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Computational sustainability trailblazer honored
Cornell Chronicle — Mar 9, 2021
Received the 2021 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize
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Cornell Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Environmental Consequences of Hydropower Dams
The Cornell Daily Sun — Oct 31, 2020
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Speaker at the AI for Materials: From Discovery to Production Webinar
NYAS — Oct 6, 2020
Many Rivers, Too Many Dams
The New York Times — Oct 2, 2020
Every Place Under Threat
The New York Times — Oct 2, 2020
Speaker at the Panel on AIxEcology
Ars Electronica x Austrian Council for Robotics and AI — Sep 9, 2020
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Keynote Speaker for Earth Day at KDD 2020
KDD — Aug 24, 2020
Panelist for the "Doing Some Good with Machine Learning" session at ICML 2020
ICML 2020 — Jul 14, 2020
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Big Red data: crunching numbers to fight COVID-19 and more
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 17, 2020
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Keynote speaker at AAMAS 2020
AAMAS — May 12, 2020
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Anmol Kabra was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar
Cornell CS News — May 4, 2020
Mentored Anmol
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Cornell scientists amplify 'green' research at AAAS
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 20, 2020
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IEEE calls for standards to combat climate change and protect kids in the age of AI
VentureBeat — Feb 6, 2020
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Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 15, 2020
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No. 4 on Top Ten "Coolest Science, Technology Advances"
Cornell CS News — Jan 14, 2020
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Army releases top 10 list of coolest science, technology advances
AerotechNews — Dec 30, 2019
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AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change
VentureBeat — Dec 16, 2019
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Invited talk at the NeurIPS 2019 Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good
NeurIPS — Dec 14, 2019
Invited talk at the NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
NeurIPS — Dec 14, 2019
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Carla Gomes Receives Research Excellence Award for Leadership in Innovative Research
Cornell CS News — Dec 12, 2019
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A.I. in the Amazon; Cornell-Led Research Team Uses A.I. to Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Cornell Daily Sun — Nov 11, 2019
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AI helps shrink Amazon dams' greenhouse gas emissions
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 19, 2019
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Crystal Phase Mapping with AI and ML in Pursuit of the Next Generation of Fuel Cells
Cornell CS News — Sep 3, 2019
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Interview video for the contributed article about computational sustainability in Communications of the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Aug 22, 2019
Download (.mp4) also available from Vimeo
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Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future
Communications of the ACM — Aug 21, 2019
Featured on the cover page
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Innovative AI system could help make Army fuel cells more efficient
CCDC Army Research Laboratory — Aug 6, 2019
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Innovative AI system could help make fuel cells more efficient
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 24, 2019
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Speaker at the Defense Materials Manufacturing and its Infrastructure (DMMI) Workshop on: Data Analytics for the Materials Community
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Jul 17, 2019
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Keynote speaker at SAT 2019
SAT — Jul 10, 2019
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Yexiang Xue won a Cornell CS Department Doctoral Dissertation Award
May 25, 2019
Yexiang Xue was Gomes' student
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A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screens
The Cornell Daily Sun — Mar 8, 2019
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Acclaimed science writer, Philip Ball discusses Computational Sustainability in a new article in Nature Materials
Cornell CS News — Feb 28, 2019
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Keynote speaker at ICAART 2019
ICAART — Feb 19, 2019
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The Rockefeller Foundation Establishes Atlas AI - New Startup to Generate Actionable Intelligence on Global Development Challenges
PR Newswire — Feb 6, 2019
Co-founder Stefano Ermon was Gomes' student
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AI adjusts for gaps in citizen science data
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 25, 2019
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Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
MIT Technology Review — Jan 18, 2019
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Learning from the big picture
Nature Materials: News & Views — Nov 23, 2018
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[Video] Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World
CompSustNet — Sep 26, 2018
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NSF grants $1.3M to Cornell, partners to hunt eelgrass disease
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 25, 2018
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Recent PhD grad wins highest award for junior AI researchers
Stanford Engineering — May 8, 2018
Stefano Ermon was Gomes' student
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Phase Mapper: Accelerating Materials Discovery with AI
AI Magazine — Mar 23, 2018
Featured on the cover page
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ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age: Carla Gomes
Association for Computing Machinery — Dec 11, 2017
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Keynote speaker at SustainIT 2017
SustainIT — Dec 6, 2017
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Keynote speaker at AI*IA 2017
AI*IA — Nov 16, 2017
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AI for Discovering Clean Energy Materials
Cornell Research — Oct 19, 2017
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CS Profs on Research Team to Receive $7.5M Grant
Cornell CIS — Aug 3, 2017
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Two groups both win $7.5M to study AI, autonomous systems
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 19, 2017
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Collaboration across (baseball) fields leads to Amazonian rivers
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 6, 2017
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Phase Mapper wins Innovation Application Award at IAAI 2017
Cornell CS News — Mar 16, 2017
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Combining Artificial Intelligence with Combinatorial X-ray Diffraction Enables Rapid Phase Mapping of New Materials
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis — Jan 23, 2017
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Computing cost-effective wildlife corridors
Mongabay Wildtech — Nov 11, 2016
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Teaching robots to solve their own problems
Cornell Chronicle — Nov 10, 2016
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When animals share, conservation is affordable
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 27, 2016
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Wildlife migration routes for multiple species can link conservation reserves at lower cost
Phys.org — Oct 21, 2016
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Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 12, 2016
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Materials to do anything under the sun
Cornell Engineering Magazine — Oct 4, 2016
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Optimization technique identifies cost-effective biodiversity corridors
ScienceDaily — Sep 27, 2016
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Students Come Together to Code, Solve Problems at the BigRed Hacks
Cornell Sun — Sep 19, 2016
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3 ways artificial intelligence will save the day
GreenBiz — Jun 27, 2016
Harnessing artificial intelligence to target conservation efforts
World Economic Forum's IdeasLab: Annual Meeting of the New Champions — Jun 26, 2016
Big data experts to share green ideas at World Economic Forum
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 24, 2016
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Conference to focus on computing for a greener world
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 23, 2016
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Atkinson Center gives record number of seed research grants
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 15, 2016
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Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world
Ensia — Apr 26, 2016
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Computers play a crucial role in preserving the Earth
NSF Web site — Apr 20, 2016
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Cornellians illuminate world's scientific strides
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 18, 2016
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Incentivizing citizen science discovery for a sustainable world
Phys.org — Feb 13, 2016
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Cornellians to share scientific studies at AAAS meeting
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 2, 2016
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Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
The Cornell Daily Sun — Jan 28, 2016
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Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
Research News @ Vanderbilt — Jan 8, 2016
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NSF puts $30M behind software bug killing, synthetic biology & computational sustainability
Network World — Jan 8, 2016
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NSF Commits $30 Million to Theoretical Computer Science, Synthetic Biology, Computational Sustainability
Scientific Computing — Jan 7, 2016
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NSF commits $30 million to expand the frontiers of computing
NSF Press Release — Jan 7, 2016
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Computing and Information Science receives $10M grant
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 7, 2016
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Cornell joins pleas for responsible AI research
Cornell Chronicle — Aug 26, 2015
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Ecological corridor to preserve Ecuadorian Andes bears
Cornell Chronicle — Mar 9, 2015
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App tracks Kenya's best places to graze
Futurity Science and Technology — Feb 20, 2015
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Space-age technology points African herders in right direction
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 18, 2015
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Faculty of Computing and Information Science
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Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
607-255-9189 (voice); 607-255-4428 (fax)
gomes at cs.cornell.edu
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes