seminar annoucement

[Adrian Tompkins]

Seminar Announcement

Thursday 13 May 2021 - h15:00 (UTC+2)  - Zoom

Anne Jones
IBM Research Center

"Artificial Intelligence for Climate Impacts"


Abstract

Climate change adaptation in both public and private sectors urgently
requires better risk quantification tools to inform decision-making and
planning across multiple timescales. In this presentation, I will give
an overview of the research activities in IBM's "AI for Climate Impacts"
research theme, an initiative to build resilience to climate change by
developing AI-enhanced and cloud-enabled models to quantify climate
risk. I will describe applications of AI techniques to the specific
challenge of improving flood risk quantification, including the use of
simulation model surrogates, automated ground truth mapping and model
calibration, and machine learning approaches to quantifying and
propagating multiple sources of uncertainty.

Bio

Anne Jones is a mathematical modeller and data scientist with a
background in weather and climate impacts. Prior to joining IBM Research
in 2018, she worked on a number of academic research projects across
multiple application areas, including hydrology, epidemiology, and
extensive work developing and applying models to predict the impact of
climate change and climate variability on vector-borne disease. She has
technical expertise in writing, configuring, validating, and evaluating
weather and climate impact models at prediction timescales of days to
decades. Her current research interests are focused on the application
of artificial intelligence to geospatial problems, in particular using
big data analytics and machine learning to produce better weather and
climate impact predictions for decision-making, including the estimation
of uncertainty.


This series of lectures is a new joint initiative between the Earth
System Physics group at ICTP and the Atmospherics Physics group at the
University of Trento.

Please find more information at:
https://www.ictp.it/research/esp/seminar-series.aspx



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