Recent News and Press

Rafael Almeida received the 2021 Hynes Award for New Investigators
Society for Freshwater Science - Mar 10, 2021

See the Hynes Award-winning publication

Computational sustainability trailblazer honored
Cornell Chronicle - Mar 9, 2021

Received the 2021 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize

Cornell Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Environmental Consequences of Hydropower Dams
The Cornell Daily Sun - Oct 31, 2020

Speaker at the AI for Materials: From Discovery to Production Webinar
NYAS - Oct 6, 2020

Many Rivers, Too Many Dams
The New York Times - Oct 2, 2020

Every Place Under Threat
The New York Times - Oct 2, 2020

Speaker at the Panel on AIxEcology
Ars Electronica x Austrian Council for Robotics and AI - Sep 9, 2020

Keynote Speaker for Earth Day at KDD 2020
KDD - Aug 24, 2020

Panelist for the "Doing Some Good with Machine Learning" session at ICML 2020
ICML 2020 - Jul 14, 2020

Big Red data: crunching numbers to fight COVID-19 and more
Cornell Chronicle - Jun 17, 2020

Keynote speaker at AAMAS 2020
AAMAS - May 12, 2020

Anmol Kabra was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar
Cornell CS News - May 4, 2020

Mentored Anmol

Cornell scientists amplify 'green' research at AAAS
Cornell Chronicle - Feb 20, 2020

IEEE calls for standards to combat climate change and protect kids in the age of AI
VentureBeat - Feb 6, 2020

Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects
Cornell Chronicle - Jan 15, 2020

No. 4 on Top Ten "Coolest Science, Technology Advances"
Cornell CS News - Jan 14, 2020

Army releases top 10 list of coolest science, technology advances
AerotechNews - Dec 30, 2019

AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change
VentureBeat - Dec 16, 2019

Invited talk at the NeurIPS 2019 Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good
NeurIPS - Dec 14, 2019

Invited talk at the NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
NeurIPS - Dec 14, 2019

Carla Gomes Receives Research Excellence Award for Leadership in Innovative Research
Cornell CS News - Dec 12, 2019

A.I. in the Amazon; Cornell-Led Research Team Uses A.I. to Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Cornell Daily Sun - Nov 11, 2019

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: "Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future"
NSF - Oct 16, 2019

AI helps shrink Amazon dams' greenhouse gas emissions
Cornell Chronicle - Sep 19, 2019

Crystal Phase Mapping with AI and ML in Pursuit of the Next Generation of Fuel Cells
Cornell CS News - Sep 3, 2019

Interview video for the contributed article about computational sustainability in Communications of the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Aug 22, 2019

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Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future
Communications of the ACM - Aug 21, 2019

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Innovative AI system could help make Army fuel cells more efficient
CCDC Army Research Laboratory - Aug 6, 2019

Innovative AI system could help make fuel cells more efficient
Cornell Chronicle - Jul 24, 2019

Speaker at the Defense Materials Manufacturing and its Infrastructure (DMMI) Workshop on: Data Analytics for the Materials Community
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Jul 17, 2019

Keynote speaker at SAT 2019
SAT - Jul 10, 2019

Yexiang Xue won a Cornell CS Department Doctoral Dissertation Award
May 25, 2019

Yexiang Xue was Gomes' student

Speaker at the 2019 Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) Symposium
MICDE - Apr 10, 2019

A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screens
The Cornell Daily Sun - Mar 8, 2019

Acclaimed science writer, Philip Ball discusses Computational Sustainability in a new article in Nature Materials
Cornell CS News - Feb 28, 2019

Keynote speaker at ICAART 2019
ICAART - Feb 19, 2019

The Rockefeller Foundation Establishes Atlas AI - New Startup to Generate Actionable Intelligence on Global Development Challenges
PR Newswire - Feb 6, 2019

Co-founder Stefano Ermon was Gomes' student

AI adjusts for gaps in citizen science data
Cornell Chronicle - Jan 25, 2019

Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
MIT Technology Review - Jan 18, 2019

Learning from the big picture
Nature Materials: News & Views - Nov 23, 2018

[Video] Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World
CompSustNet - Sep 26, 2018

NSF grants $1.3M to Cornell, partners to hunt eelgrass disease
Cornell Chronicle - Sep 25, 2018

Recent PhD grad wins highest award for junior AI researchers
Stanford Engineering - May 8, 2018

Stefano Ermon was Gomes' student

Phase Mapper: Accelerating Materials Discovery with AI
AI Magazine - Mar 23, 2018

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ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age: Carla Gomes
Association for Computing Machinery - 12/11/2017

Keynote speaker at SustainIT 2017
SustainIT - 12/6/2017

Keynote speaker at AI*IA 2017
AI*IA - 11/16/2017

AI for Discovering Clean Energy Materials
Cornell Research - 10/19/2017

CS Profs on Research Team to Receive $7.5M Grant
Cornell CIS - 8/3/2017

Two groups both win $7.5M to study AI, autonomous systems
Cornell Chronicle - 7/19/2017

Collaboration across (baseball) fields leads to Amazonian rivers
Cornell Chronicle - 7/6/2017

Phase Mapper wins Innovation Application Award at IAAI 2017
Cornell CS News - 3/16/2017

Combining Artificial Intelligence with Combinatorial X-ray Diffraction Enables Rapid Phase Mapping of New Materials
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis - 1/23/2017

Computing cost-effective wildlife corridors
Mongabay Wildtech - 11/11/2016

Teaching robots to solve their own problems
Cornell Chronicle - 11/10/2016

When animals share, conservation is affordable
Cornell Chronicle - 10/27/2016

Wildlife migration routes for multiple species can link conservation reserves at lower cost
Phys.org - 10/21/2016

Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
Cornell Chronicle - 10/12/2016

Materials to do anything under the sun
Cornell Engineering Magazine - 10/4/2016

Optimization technique identifies cost-effective biodiversity corridors
ScienceDaily - 9/27/2016

Students Come Together to Code, Solve Problems at the BigRed Hacks
Cornell Sun - 9/19/2016

3 ways artificial intelligence will save the day
GreenBiz - 6/27/2016

Harnessing artificial intelligence to target conservation efforts
World Economic Forum's IdeasLab: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - 6/26/2016

Big data experts to share green ideas at World Economic Forum
Cornell Chronicle - 6/24/2016

Conference to focus on computing for a greener world
Cornell Chronicle - 6/23/2016

Atkinson Center gives record number of seed research grants
Cornell Chronicle - 6/15/2016

Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world
Ensia - 4/26/2016

Computers play a crucial role in preserving the Earth
NSF Web site - 4/20/2016

Cornellians illuminate world's scientific strides
Cornell Chronicle - 2/18/2016

Incentivizing citizen science discovery for a sustainable world
Phys.org - 2/13/2016

Cornellians to share scientific studies at AAAS meeting
Cornell Chronicle - 2/2/2016

Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
The Cornell Daily Sun - 1/28/2016

Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work
Research News @ Vanderbilt - 1/8/2016

NSF puts $30M behind software bug killing, synthetic biology & computational sustainability
Network World - 1/8/2016

NSF Commits $30 Million to Theoretical Computer Science, Synthetic Biology, Computational Sustainability
Scientific Computing - 1/7/2016

NSF commits $30 million to expand the frontiers of computing
NSF Press Release - 1/7/2016

Computing and Information Science receives $10M grant
Cornell Chronicle - 1/7/2016

Cornell joins pleas for responsible AI research
Cornell Chronicle - 8/26/2015

Ecological corridor to preserve Ecuadorian Andes bears
Cornell Chronicle - 3/9/2015

App tracks Kenya's best places to graze
Futurity Science and Technology - 2/20/2015

Space-age technology points African herders in right direction
Cornell Chronicle - 2/18/2015