Priya Donti named AI2050 Early Career Fellow
Assistant Professor Priya Donti has been named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic initiative from Eric and Wendy Schmidt aimed at helping to solve hard problems in AI.
Priya Donti joined the Department of EECS as an assistant professor in September of 2023. Her work focuses on physics-informed deep learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids; additionally, she is the co-founder of Climate Change AI, global nonprofit initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Donti earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and her PhD in computer science and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She was honored with the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Award and the ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award. She has also been honored as a U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, Siebel Scholar, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and Thomas J. Watson Fellow.
Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 stems in part from issues raised in the bestselling book, The Age of AI: And our Human Future, co-authored by Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, and Schwarzman College of Computing Dean Dan Huttenlocher. The initiative is grounded in the following motivating question: It’s 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome? AI2050 aims to support exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.
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