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# awesome-MIT-AI-for-Climate-Change [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re)

**Awesome-MIT-AI-for-Climate-Change** is a curated list of professors and other researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who are tackling climate change with machine learning (CCML)



Finding MIT professors in machine learning and climate change is difficult, because they are spread across various departments and research a wide breadth of optics. Whether you're applying for graduate school, look for collaborators, or inspiring projects - this list is intended to get you started by finding the right people.



This is a safe, open, and inclusive community. The list is most surely incomplete, so please add your favorite researchers through commenting in an issue or creating a pull request.



MIT logo with an Earth in brackets



MIT Campaign for a Better World logo from [MIT Better World](https://betterworld.mit.edu/)



## Department 

- [**Aeronautics and Astronautics**](#aeronautics-and-astronautics)

- [**Architecture**](#architecture)

- [**Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)**](#civil-and-environmental-engineering-cee)

- [**Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)**](#computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail)

- [**Earth and planetary sciences (EAPS)**](#earth-and-planetary-sciences-eaps)

- [**Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)**](#electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs)

- [**Materials Sciences and Engineering**](#materials-sciences-and-engineering)

- [**Mechanical Engineering**](#mechanical-engineering)

- [**MIT Media Lab**](#mit-media-lab)

- [**MIT Sloan School of Management**](#mit-sloan-school-of-management)

- [**Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)**](#woods-hole-oceanographic-institution-whoi)



## Aeronautics and Astronautics 

- [**Dava Newman**](https://davanewman.com/) \

Fast climate models, physics-informed neural networks, climate visualizations, virtual reality. Associates in CCML include Björn Lütjens, Phillip Cherner. 



- [**Sebastian Eastham**](https://lae.mit.edu/team/sebastian-eastham/) \

Atmospheric modeling of aircraft emissions, multiscale atmospheric modeling, impact of long-lived emissions, earth observation. 



- [**Steven Barret**](http://barrett.mit.edu/) \

Zero-emission aviation, contrails. Associates in CCML include Vincent Meijer. 



- [**Youssef Marzouk**](https://uqgroup.mit.edu/) \

Uncertainty quantification, Bayesian modeling and computation, data assimilation, machine learning in complex physical systems, environmental applications. Associates in CCML include Maximilian Ramgraber, Aimee Maurais. 



## Architecture

- [**John E. Fernandez**](https://environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/people/prof-john-e-fernandez/) \

Deforestation, environmental justice.  



- [**Marcela Angel**](https://environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/people/marcela-angel/) \

Technology development and data analysis for community-based planning, natural climate solutions, deforestation, ML-based aerial monitoring, environmental justice. 



## Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

- [**Chris Rackauckas**](https://chrisrackauckas.com/) \

Scientific machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, climate modeling, differential equations.



- [**Daniela Rus**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7_DIsxWqGI) \

Distributed or collaborative robotics, soft robotics, mobile computing, pruned neural networks, robustness, climate change. 



- [**Sara Beery**](https://beerys.github.io/) \

Computer Vision for Ecology, wildlife camera footage, forest detection, fine-grained visual classification. 



## Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

- [**César Terrer**](https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/cesar-terrer/) \

Earth system science, forests, plant-soil interactions, field and satellite observations, remote sensing, land surface modeling. 



- [**Colette Heald**](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/heald) \

Air quality, climate, environmental health, atmospheric composition and chemistry, modeling. Associates and links in CCML include Sidhant Pai and [1](https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081049).



- [**Michael Howland**](https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/michael-f-howland/) \

Wind farm modeling, fluid mechanics, weather and climate modeling, uncertainty quantification, optimization and control, physics-informed machine learning, renewable energies. Links in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.3390/en12142716).



- [**Saurabh Amin**](https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/saurabh-amin/) \

Control of infrastructure systems, game theory, optimization in networks, sustainability, natural resource supply chains.



## Earth and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)

- [**Andre Souza**](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/sandre) \

machine learning methods for discovering dynamics, optimal control, rare events in dynamical systems, Ocean modeling. Links in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002108).



- [**Brent Minchew**](https://glaciers.mit.edu/) \

Cryosphere, glaciers, remote sensing, inSAR, mechanics of flowing ice. Link in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.8).



- [**Chris Hill**](https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.edu/people/chris-hill/) \

Ocean modeling, climate modeling, green high-performance computing, physics-informed neural networks, multi-scale modeling of fluids. Links include [1](https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091363).



- [**Noelle Selin**](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/selin) \

Air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols. Associates and links include Björn Lütjens, Paolo Giani, Chris Womack and [1](https://climategrandchallenges.mit.edu/flagship-projects/bringing-computation-to-the-climate-challenge/#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20a%20digital,for%20communities%20and%20other%20stakeholders.).



- [**Paul O'Gorman**](https://pog.mit.edu/) \

Atmospheric dynamics, precipitation, physics-informed neural networks. Associates and links in CCML include Griffin Mooers, Janni Yuval, Ziwei Li, [3Q](https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-3q-paul-o-gorman-machine-learning-for-climate-modeling-0213).



- [**Raffaele Ferrari**](http://ferrari.mit.edu/) \

Ocean modeling, Ocean dynamics, Atmospheric dynamics. Associates and links in CCML include Andre Souza, Björn Lütjens [1](http://ferrari.mit.edu/research/ocean-modelling/), [2](https://climategrandchallenges.mit.edu/flagship-projects/bringing-computation-to-the-climate-challenge/#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20a%20digital,for%20communities%20and%20other%20stakeholders.).



- [**Sai Ravela**](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/ravela) \

Data-Driven Dynamics; Optimization and Learning; Natural Hazards and Climate Risk; Computational Sustainability; Autonomous Observing Systems. Students and associates in CCML include Anamitra Saha and Joaquin Salas; links include [1](https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2018.2861006)



- [**Stephanie Dutkiewicz**](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/stephdut) \

Ocean sciences, marine ecosystems, phytoplankton, biogeochemistry, biogeography, unsupervised learning. Links in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay4740)



- [**Taylor Perron**](https://taylorperron.org/) \

Geomorphology, remote sensing, forests, influence of climate on landscapes, river networks. 



## Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

- [**Priya Donti**](https://priyadonti.com/) \

Forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewable power grids, hard constraints in deep learning, co-founder of [Climate Change AI](https://www.climatechange.ai/). 



## Materials Sciences and Engineering

- [**Elsa Olivetti**](https://dmse.mit.edu/people/elsa-a-olivetti) \

Environmental and economic sustainability of materials, recycled and renewable materials, recycling-friendly material design, intelligent waste disposition, dematerialization and waste mining. Links in CCML include [1](https://news.mit.edu/2019/materials-day-talks-examine-promises-challenges-ai-machine-learning-1105)



## Mechanical Engineering

- [**Pierre Lermusiaux**](http://web.mit.edu/pierrel/www/) \

Ocean modeling and data assimilation to quantify regional ocean dynamics on multiple scales. Multiscale modeling, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation.



- [**Sherrie Wang**](https://sherriewang.github.io/) \

Remote sensing and machine learning for climate science and agriculture. Associates and links in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.026)



## MIT Media Lab

- [**Danielle Wood**](https://www.media.mit.edu/people/drwood/overview/) \

Environmental justice, ecosystem monitoring, space policy, remote sensing.



- [**Dava Newman**](https://davanewman.com/) \

See [Aeronautics and Astronautics](#aeronautics-and-astronautics)



- [**Fadel Adib**](http://www.mit.edu/~fadel/) \

Ocean internet of things, distributed sensors, reinforcement learning. 



- [**Joseph A. Paradiso**](https://resenv.media.mit.edu/) \

Sustainable and smart agriculture, internet of things, food systems, sensor networks. Associates in CCML include Caroline Jaffe and [Neil Gaikwad](https://web.media.mit.edu/~gaikwad/).



## MIT Sloan School of Management

- [**Christopher R. Knittel**](http://knittel.world/) \

Energy and environmental policy, energy efficiency investments, environmental economics, machine learning. Links in CCML include [1](https://doi.org/10.1086/710606).



- [**David Rand**](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand) \

Cognitive science, behavioral economics, social psychology, climate misinformation. Associates in CCML include Zivvy Epstein.



- [**Jason Jay**](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/jason-jay) \

Leadership, strategy, sustainable business, combining social and business goals. 



- [**John Sterman**](https://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/) \

System dynamics, climate policy, systems analysis, simulating complex systems, only tangentially machine learning. Links in CCML include [en-roads](https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.1.1)



## Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

- [**Yogesh Girdar**](https://www.whoi.edu/profile/ygirdhar/) \

Deep sea exploration, robots, communication-starved environments, unsupervised learning. Associates in CCML include Stewart Jamieson, Jess Todd.



## Awesome-awesome

- [**MIT Climate Grand Challenge Finalists**](https://news.mit.edu/2022/climate-grand-challenges-finalists-0214) \

A list of professors interested in climate change. 



## Contributions

This list has only been possible to assemble through the extensive input by Zivvy Epstein, Helena Caswell, Salva Rühling, Will Atkinson, Sidhant Pai, Sai Ravela, and more.