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David Rolnick

@drolnick.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, McGill University / Mila Quebec AI Institute. Co-Founder and Chair, Climate Change AI. MIT Tech Review "Innovator Under 35". he/him/his

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Climate Change AI@climatechangeai.bsky.social · last mo.

Register for the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026 starting July 19! The program will feature an exciting lineup of lectures and tutorials exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence and climate action. 🎉🤖🌱

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David Rolnick@drolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Postdoc opportunity in collaboration with our lab on downscaling/superresolution for biodiversity, details here: community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...

Postdoctoral Position — Machine Learning and Downscaling to Advance Ecological Applications | Climate Change AI

As part of an IVADO initiative on AI and environment, a coalition of Montreal labs is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project applying state-of-the-art machine learning a...

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David Rolnick@drolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by @pratinavseth.bsky.social, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution). More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032

Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery

Millions of abandoned oil and gas wells are scattered across the world, leaching methane into the atmosphere and toxic compounds into the groundwater. Many of these locations are unknown, preventing t...

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Pratinav Seth@pratinavseth.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m happy to share that our paper on detecting oil & gas wells with AI has been accepted to ICML 2025! Millions of such wells exist, leaking methane & other toxins. We show how remote sensing can help find them, using high-resolution, multi-spectral satellite imagery. @icmlconf.bsky.social

Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@mila-quebec.bsky.social · last yr.

Mila members David Rolnick, Yuyan Chen and Mélisande Teng have arrived in Panama to test an algorithm to discover new species. Among a team of entomologists and computer scientists, they have installed camera traps to automatically monitor biodiversity. Stay tuned to learn more about their journey!

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Sara Beery@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · last yr.

To assist in that upskilling, and to foster a community in which those impacted can help each other build AI skills, the CV4Ecology program is organizing a two-week remote workshop in May of 2025 that will teach AI methods to former US public sector conservation scientists.

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Data-for-good rapid response team

I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@mila-quebec.bsky.social · last yr.

A new study from McGill University researchers, including Mila members Laura J. Pollock and @drolnick.bsky.social, shows that AI can accelerate species discovery, improve ecosystem tracking and help meet global conservation targets.

McGill University@mcgill.ca · last yr.

AI could revolutionize biodiversity conservation 🌱 A team of McGill researchers found untapped potential to accelerate species discovery, track ecosystems & help meet global conservation targets. Read more: mcgill.ca/x/iwo

Adriana Guatame-García@guatamite.bsky.social · last yr.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
David Rolnick@drolnick.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Climate Change AI workshop at NeurIPS tomorrow will be livestreamed for free, even if you weren't able to register for NeurIPS (which was oversubscribed this year)!

Climate Change AI@climatechangeai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another highlight of our #NeurIPS2024 workshop on Sunday will be a panel discussion on small vs big models in ML for climate impact, featuring Chris Bretherton, Anamika Dubey & Bistra Dilkina. Stream the whole workshop live & for free via our website: www.climatechange.ai/events/neuri...

Sara Beery@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper! We've just published a manuscript covering technical details of the AI models behind Wildlife Insights, with systematic analysis at scale of cropping vs not cropping in #CameraTrap image classifiers 🫎🦌🦒🦘🪿🫏🐘🐫🦬🦛🐿️ ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...

To crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap images

In this work, the authors assess the hypothesis that classifying animals cropped from camera trap images using a species-agnostic detector yields better accuracy than classifying whole images. We fin....

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