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The Design and Deployment of a Chicago Air Quality Sensing Network, Madeleine Daepp

August 9, 2022 | Madeleine Daepp

At the November 10, 2021 Mansueto Institute Lunch Colloquium, Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher in the Urban Innovation team at Microsoft Research, spoke about “The Design and Deployment of a Chicago Air Quality Sensing Network.” Environmental…

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Digital Water for Agriculture

Sara Malvar, Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra

August 2022

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Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa

Nature | July 2022, Vol 607

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Mapping Industrial Poultry Operations at Scale with Deep Learning and Aerial Imagery

Caleb Robinson, Ben Chugg, Brandon Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Daniel E Ho

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | July 2022, Vol 15: pp. 7458

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Rapid Inference of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Based on a Top-Down Method with a Physically Informed Variational Autoencoder

Jia Xing, Siwei Li, Shuxin Zheng, Chang Liu, Xiaochun Wang, Lin Huang, Ge Song, Yihan He, Shuxiao Wang, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Jia Zhang, Jiang Bian, Yun Zhu, Tie-Yan Liu, Jiming Hao

Environmental Science & Technology | July 2022, Vol 56(14): pp. 9903-9914

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Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) is a community of multi-disciplinary researchers working together to fight climate change.

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Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

June 29, 2022 | Karin Strauss, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith, Shuxin Zheng, Chang Liu, Shun Zheng, Wei Cao, Jiang Bian, Ziheng Lu, Yu Shi, Tian Xie, Daniel Zuegner, Kali Frost, Kristen Severson, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Emre Kiciman, Lester Mackey, Alberto Arribas Herranz, Bora Ozaltun, Yingce Xia

Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society.

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Development of a Permeability Reduction Model Using Deep Learning for CO2 Hydrate Storage

Alan Junji Yamaguchi, Toru Sato, Takaomi Tobase, Xinran wei, Lin Huang, Jia Zhang, Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu

OMAE 2022 | June 2022

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Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances

Remi Tachet des Combes, Erika Odmark, Will Buchanan

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | June 2022

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Reducing AI’s Carbon Footprint

This project develops techniques that enable AI to use computing infrastructure more efficiently. The goals are to maintain predictive accuracy while reducing carbon emissions, whether embodied in manufactured hardware, or produced from electricity usage when…

Project FarmVibes | Research for Industry

Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Geospatial Machine Learning

Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

The Design and Deployment of a Chicago Air Quality Sensing Network, Madeleine Daepp

Digital Water for Agriculture

Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Mapping Industrial Poultry Operations at Scale with Deep Learning and Aerial Imagery

Rapid Inference of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Based on a Top-Down Method with a Physically Informed Variational Autoencoder

Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

Development of a Permeability Reduction Model Using Deep Learning for CO2 Hydrate Storage

Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances

Reducing AI’s Carbon Footprint

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