Aditya Grover

Aditya Grover is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and co-founder of Inception. His research interests are at the intersection of generative modeling and reinforcement learning, and grounded in applications for accelerating science. Aditya’s research has been recognized with a best paper award (NeurIPS), MIT TR under 35 Award, the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, the AI Researcher of the Year Award by Samsung, the GOLD Award for Distinguished Young Alumni at IIT Delhi, the Kavli Fellowship by the US National Academy of Sciences, and the ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award. Aditya received his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley, PhD from Stanford, and bachelors from IIT Delhi.

AI2050 Project

Climate change has led to a rapid increase in the occurrence of extreme weather events globally, including floods, droughts, and wildfires. Current models for forecasting extreme events are limited by the inability to efficiently model spatiotemporal physics at finer spatial resolutions and long lead times. In his AI2050 project, Aditya Grover will develop a new uncertainty-aware foundation model for forecasting extreme weather events. This model will be pretrained on broad atmospheric datasets using unsupervised learning and fine-tuned to integrate complex domain knowledge using modern alignment techniques. Grover will validate his approach on challenging real-world weather datasets and open-source the research for broader use and accessibility.

Project Artifacts

AI2050 Community Perspective — Aditya Grover (2025)