Ep 4: Priya Donti

19/07/2022 42 min

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Episode Synopsis

Priya Donti is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a co-founder and chair of Climate Change AI, an initiative to catalyze impactful work in climate change and machine learning. Her work focuses on machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids. Specifically, her research explores methods to incorporate the physics and hard constraints associated with electric power systems into deep learning models.
Timestamps

1:22 Background
4:58 Climate change around the world
9:34 Identity as a superpower
16:58 Bringing AI to climate change
22:40 Smartgrids
27:37 Climate Change AI
35:41 Why Ph.D.?
40:28 Advice