Carla P. Gomes
gomes at cs.cornell.edu
Professor and Director
Cornell University AI for Science Institute
Institute for Computational Sustainability
CompSustNet
Recent News and Press
Aquaculture in the Amazon: lessons for food security and sustainability
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 12, 2025
AI-powered analysis uncovers marine herbivores' impact on eelgrass disease spread
Phys.org — Feb 5, 2025
Also posted in Cornell Chronicle.
ICMLA'24 Best Paper Award
ICMLA — Dec 18, 2024
Brendan Rappazzo et. al. "Critic Loss for Image Classification"
Carla Gomes named Schmidt AI2050 Senior Fellow
Cornell Chronicle — Dec 10, 2024
See also the Schmidt Sciences press release and the article in Forbes.
NSF grant supports AI-driven sustainability research, training
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 23, 2024
Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 10, 2024
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"
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
Science Is Becoming Less Human: AI is accelerating the pace of discovery—but at what cost?
The Atlantic — Dec 11, 2023
Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Nature — Nov 29, 2023
Big Data, AI Help Advance Ornithology
Tech Briefs — Nov 9, 2023
New AI model gives bird's-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale
Mongabay — Nov 8, 2023
The Top 10 Women In The World Of AI In 2023
Rebellion Research — Oct 7, 2023
AI analyzes bird sightings to help conserve species
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 4, 2023
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
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
Einaudi seed grants finding fertile soil
Cornell Chronicle — May 11, 2023
AI-CLIMATE institute aims to curb emissions, boost economy
Cornell Chronicle — May 4, 2023
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Communications of the ACM — Mar 23, 2023
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.
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.
AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 15, 2022
Gomes Receives ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award
Cornell CIS — Jun 10, 2022
Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let's get it right
Nature — Jun 7, 2022
The 2030 Project to marshal faculty to solve climate crisis
Cornell Chronicle — May 12, 2022
ACM celebrates technical achievements that drive far-reaching advances in technology
AAAS EurekAlert! — May 11, 2022
Received the ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (2021)
Machine learning for spectral properties
Nature Computational Science — Mar 18, 2022
Episode 4: Meet research team member SARA
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast — Mar 18, 2022
How AI could help bring a sustainable reckoning to hydropower
Popular Science — Feb 26, 2022
AI can help build kinder, gentler dams
Anthropocene Magazine — Feb 23, 2022
AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 17, 2022
Reducing negative impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion on people and nature
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies — Feb 17, 2022
AI could optimize hydroelectric dams in the Amazon
FIU News — Feb 17, 2022
Autonomous experiment finds stable fuel-cell material in minutes
C&EN — Dec 28, 2021
AI powers autonomous materials discovery
Cornell Chronicle — Dec 17, 2021
Climate-driven disease compromises seagrass health
Cornell Chronicle — Dec 10, 2021
DRNets can solve Sudoku, speed scientific discovery
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 17, 2021
Paper featured on the Nature Machine Intelligence cover page
Keynote Speaker for IEEE SMARTCOMP
IEEE SMARTCOMP — Aug 25, 2021
Computational sustainability meets materials science
Nature Reviews Materials — Jul 26, 2021
A preprint (pdf) of the paper is available.
Profile of Carla Gomes' Research on Hierarchical Machine Learning for Material Discovery
Cornell CS News — Jul 16, 2021
Hierarchical machine learning framework pushes boundaries of multi-property material discovery
AIP Scilight — Jun 23, 2021
Carla Gomes Receives Cornell Atkinson Grant to Study Amazonian Aquaculture
Cornell CS News — Jun 23, 2021
Cornell Atkinson awards $1.8 million to fund vital collaborations
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 16, 2021
Grant to accelerate AI materials discovery and design
Cornell Chronicle — May 18, 2021
Rafael Almeida received the 2021 Hynes Award for New Investigators
Society for Freshwater Science — Mar 10, 2021
See the Hynes Award-winning publication
Computational sustainability trailblazer honored
Cornell Chronicle — Mar 9, 2021
Received the 2021 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize
Cornell Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Environmental Consequences of Hydropower Dams
The Cornell Daily Sun — Oct 31, 2020
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
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
Big Red data: crunching numbers to fight COVID-19 and more
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 17, 2020
Keynote speaker at AAMAS 2020
AAMAS — May 12, 2020
Anmol Kabra was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar
Cornell CS News — May 4, 2020
Mentored Anmol
Cornell scientists amplify 'green' research at AAAS
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 20, 2020
IEEE calls for standards to combat climate change and protect kids in the age of AI
VentureBeat — Feb 6, 2020
Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 15, 2020
No. 4 on Top Ten "Coolest Science, Technology Advances"
Cornell CS News — Jan 14, 2020
Army releases top 10 list of coolest science, technology advances
AerotechNews — Dec 30, 2019
AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change
VentureBeat — Dec 16, 2019
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
Carla Gomes Receives Research Excellence Award for Leadership in Innovative Research
Cornell CS News — Dec 12, 2019
A.I. in the Amazon; Cornell-Led Research Team Uses A.I. to Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Cornell Daily Sun — Nov 11, 2019
AI helps shrink Amazon dams' greenhouse gas emissions
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 19, 2019
Crystal Phase Mapping with AI and ML in Pursuit of the Next Generation of Fuel Cells
Cornell CS News — Sep 3, 2019
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
Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future
Communications of the ACM — Aug 21, 2019
Featured on the cover page
Innovative AI system could help make Army fuel cells more efficient
CCDC Army Research Laboratory — Aug 6, 2019
Innovative AI system could help make fuel cells more efficient
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 24, 2019
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
Keynote speaker at SAT 2019
SAT — Jul 10, 2019
Yexiang Xue won a Cornell CS Department Doctoral Dissertation Award
May 25, 2019
Yexiang Xue was Gomes' student
A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screens
The Cornell Daily Sun — Mar 8, 2019
Acclaimed science writer, Philip Ball discusses Computational Sustainability in a new article in Nature Materials
Cornell CS News — Feb 28, 2019
Keynote speaker at ICAART 2019
ICAART — Feb 19, 2019
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
AI adjusts for gaps in citizen science data
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 25, 2019
Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
MIT Technology Review — Jan 18, 2019
Learning from the big picture
Nature Materials: News & Views — Nov 23, 2018
[Video] Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World
CompSustNet — Sep 26, 2018
NSF grants $1.3M to Cornell, partners to hunt eelgrass disease
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 25, 2018
Recent PhD grad wins highest award for junior AI researchers
Stanford Engineering — May 8, 2018
Stefano Ermon was Gomes' student
Phase Mapper: Accelerating Materials Discovery with AI
AI Magazine — Mar 23, 2018
Featured on the cover page
ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age: Carla Gomes
Association for Computing Machinery — Dec 11, 2017
Keynote speaker at SustainIT 2017
SustainIT — Dec 6, 2017
Keynote speaker at AI*IA 2017
AI*IA — Nov 16, 2017
AI for Discovering Clean Energy Materials
Cornell Research — Oct 19, 2017
CS Profs on Research Team to Receive $7.5M Grant
Cornell CIS — Aug 3, 2017
Two groups both win $7.5M to study AI, autonomous systems
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 19, 2017
Collaboration across (baseball) fields leads to Amazonian rivers
Cornell Chronicle — Jul 6, 2017
Phase Mapper wins Innovation Application Award at IAAI 2017
Cornell CS News — Mar 16, 2017
Combining Artificial Intelligence with Combinatorial X-ray Diffraction Enables Rapid Phase Mapping of New Materials
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis — Jan 23, 2017
Computing cost-effective wildlife corridors
Mongabay Wildtech — Nov 11, 2016
Teaching robots to solve their own problems
Cornell Chronicle — Nov 10, 2016
When animals share, conservation is affordable
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 27, 2016
Wildlife migration routes for multiple species can link conservation reserves at lower cost
Phys.org — Oct 21, 2016
Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
Cornell Chronicle — Oct 12, 2016
Materials to do anything under the sun
Cornell Engineering Magazine — Oct 4, 2016
Optimization technique identifies cost-effective biodiversity corridors
ScienceDaily — Sep 27, 2016
Students Come Together to Code, Solve Problems at the BigRed Hacks
Cornell Sun — Sep 19, 2016
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
Conference to focus on computing for a greener world
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 23, 2016
Atkinson Center gives record number of seed research grants
Cornell Chronicle — Jun 15, 2016
Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world
Ensia — Apr 26, 2016
Computers play a crucial role in preserving the Earth
NSF Web site — Apr 20, 2016
Cornellians illuminate world's scientific strides
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 18, 2016
Incentivizing citizen science discovery for a sustainable world
Phys.org — Feb 13, 2016
Cornellians to share scientific studies at AAAS meeting
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 2, 2016
Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
The Cornell Daily Sun — Jan 28, 2016
Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
Research News @ Vanderbilt — Jan 8, 2016
NSF puts $30M behind software bug killing, synthetic biology & computational sustainability
Network World — Jan 8, 2016
NSF Commits $30 Million to Theoretical Computer Science, Synthetic Biology, Computational Sustainability
Scientific Computing — Jan 7, 2016
NSF commits $30 million to expand the frontiers of computing
NSF Press Release — Jan 7, 2016
Computing and Information Science receives $10M grant
Cornell Chronicle — Jan 7, 2016
Cornell joins pleas for responsible AI research
Cornell Chronicle — Aug 26, 2015
Ecological corridor to preserve Ecuadorian Andes bears
Cornell Chronicle — Mar 9, 2015
App tracks Kenya's best places to graze
Futurity Science and Technology — Feb 20, 2015
Space-age technology points African herders in right direction
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 18, 2015
Contact Information
Dept. Computer Science
353 Gates Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Faculty of Computing and Information Science
Dept. Information Science
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