Priya L. Donti
@priyald17.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, MIT | Co-founder & Chair, Climate Change AI | MIT TR35, TIME100 AI | she/they
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Priya L. Donti
@priyald17.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Beyond humbled to be on this year's #TIME100AI.
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
⚡Excited to share our work "PFΔ: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, & Topology Variations," to be presented as part of the #NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks Track
Led by my students Ana K. Rivera, Anvita Bhagavathula, & Alvaro Carbonero
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Led by my students Ana K. Rivera, Anvita Bhagavathula, & Alvaro Carbonero
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November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
⚡Excited to share our work "PFΔ: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, & Topology Variations," to be presented as part of the #NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks Track
Led by my students Ana K. Rivera, Anvita Bhagavathula, & Alvaro Carbonero
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Led by my students Ana K. Rivera, Anvita Bhagavathula, & Alvaro Carbonero
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It was such an honor to meet and work with this incredible group of 25 changemakers from across different Amazonian countries, to provide training on AI & climate change and discuss practical pathways forward.
Resources and results of this initiative will be launched at #COP30 - stay tuned!
Resources and results of this initiative will be launched at #COP30 - stay tuned!
Last week, we co-hosted the pilot workshop of the AI Climate Institute in Brazil, as part of the preparatory activities for #COP30. We want to thank all organizers, facilitators and supporters! 💚🌎
Learn more: www.climatechange.ai/events/ai_cl...
Learn more: www.climatechange.ai/events/ai_cl...
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It was such an honor to meet and work with this incredible group of 25 changemakers from across different Amazonian countries, to provide training on AI & climate change and discuss practical pathways forward.
Resources and results of this initiative will be launched at #COP30 - stay tuned!
Resources and results of this initiative will be launched at #COP30 - stay tuned!
"In a single week, AI processed many thousands of images each night, in which experts detected 2,000 moth species—half of them unknown to science."
Cool article on AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, feat. my awesome colleague @drolnick.bsky.social!
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Cool article on AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, feat. my awesome colleague @drolnick.bsky.social!
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Machines Finding Life That Humans Can’t See
A suite of technologies are helping taxonomists speed up species identification.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"In a single week, AI processed many thousands of images each night, in which experts detected 2,000 moth species—half of them unknown to science."
Cool article on AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, feat. my awesome colleague @drolnick.bsky.social!
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Cool article on AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, feat. my awesome colleague @drolnick.bsky.social!
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
MIT on the USG's Compact promising preferential treatment in exchange for specific on-campus changes:
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
MIT on the USG's Compact promising preferential treatment in exchange for specific on-campus changes:
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪
Beyond humbled to be on this year's #TIME100AI.
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
August 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Beyond humbled to be on this year's #TIME100AI.
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪
Reposted by Priya L. Donti
We are pleased to announce the AI Climate Academy partnership!
📅Pilot workshop from Oct 13 to 17, 2025, to be held in Belém, Brazil.
🚨Call open for participants from Amazonian countries. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025: itsrio2.typeform.com/AIClimate
📅Pilot workshop from Oct 13 to 17, 2025, to be held in Belém, Brazil.
🚨Call open for participants from Amazonian countries. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025: itsrio2.typeform.com/AIClimate
AI Climate Academy COP 30
Applications are now open for the AI Climate Academy pilot workshop, aimed at strengthening capacities in artificial intelligence (AI) applied to climate action in the Amazon region.
itsrio2.typeform.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We are pleased to announce the AI Climate Academy partnership!
📅Pilot workshop from Oct 13 to 17, 2025, to be held in Belém, Brazil.
🚨Call open for participants from Amazonian countries. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025: itsrio2.typeform.com/AIClimate
📅Pilot workshop from Oct 13 to 17, 2025, to be held in Belém, Brazil.
🚨Call open for participants from Amazonian countries. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025: itsrio2.typeform.com/AIClimate
Excited to share RL2Grid, an RL benchmark for power grid operations ⚡
We present tasks and environments for grid topology optimization, an important challenge in power systems that encompasses a number of open research questions in RL.
Check it out! More details below ⬇️
We present tasks and environments for grid topology optimization, an important challenge in power systems that encompasses a number of open research questions in RL.
Check it out! More details below ⬇️
🚨 Excited to share RL2Grid! A standardized suite of RL tasks for realistic power grid operations ⚡ Built with TSOs, RL2Grid aims to bring RL closer to real-world critical infrastructure.
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
July 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excited to share RL2Grid, an RL benchmark for power grid operations ⚡
We present tasks and environments for grid topology optimization, an important challenge in power systems that encompasses a number of open research questions in RL.
Check it out! More details below ⬇️
We present tasks and environments for grid topology optimization, an important challenge in power systems that encompasses a number of open research questions in RL.
Check it out! More details below ⬇️
Reposted by Priya L. Donti
Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by @pratinavseth.bsky.social, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution).
More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032
More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032
May 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by @pratinavseth.bsky.social, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution).
More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032
More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032
Reposted by Priya L. Donti
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
bryanwilder.github.io
May 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Reposted by Priya L. Donti
I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6