David Rolnick

David Rolnick is an Assistant Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and at Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He is a Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI and serves as Scientific Co-director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and co-lead of the Global Center on AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC). Dr. Rolnick is a Sloan Research Fellow and was named to the MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of “35 Innovators Under 35” for his work in building the field of AI and climate change. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT and is a former Fulbright Scholar, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

AI2050 Project Overview

As climate change leads to extreme and atypical weather patterns worldwide, it is essential for governments, companies, and individuals to have high-quality data to respond. However, physics-based climate and weather forecasts often have low spatial resolution as well as inaccuracies. These issues are even greater in the Global South due to the lower availability of high-quality sensor data used as input. David’s AI2050 project will develop innovative AI-based superresolution tools that can predict accurate, high-resolution climate and weather data from low-resolution input, to meet global data needs and alleviate geographical inequities.