Sustainability Data Science Conference

Event Details:

Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00am - 2:10pm PDT

Location

Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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This event is open to:

Faculty/Staff
Postdocs
Students
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NOTE: This event is open to Stanford affiliates only.

Join us for the third Sustainability Data Science Conference, hosted by Stanford Data Science and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, on April 10, 2025! This event unites data and sustainability scientists to tackle pressing environmental challenges using innovative datasets, methods, and algorithms.

Students and postdocs will give 8–10-minute presentations, sharing novel datasets, data-driven analyses, or key research questions requiring data science. 

Agenda

TimeSession 
9:00 - 9:30 AMRegistration and Breakfast 
9:30 - 9:40 AMOpening Remarks 

9:40 - 10:40 AM

Session 1 
 Rajanie PrabhaDeepSolar-3M: An AI-Enabled Solar PV Database Documenting 3 Million Systems Across the US
 Alexandra DiGiacomoComputer vision techniques facilitate rapid insights into marine megafauna ecology
 Hikari MurayamaUsing untapped aerial photography archives to quantify historical forest cover changes in Africa
 Emma Krasovich SouthworthGreen Growth or Toxic Trade-Off? The health impacts of monoculture expansion in Costa Rica
 Ellianna AbrahamsA Concise Tiling Strategy for Preserving Spatial Context in Earth Observation Imagery
 Romain LacombeClimateX: Do LLMs Accurately Assess Human Expert Confidence in Climate Statements?
10:40 - 11:00 AMBreak 
11:00 AM - 12:10 PMSession 2 
 Nanzhe WangDeep Learning Framework for History Matching CO2 Storage with 4D Seismic and Monitoring Well Data
 Rebecca GrekinUniversity Campus District Energy Consumption Survey (UCDECS): drivers for heating and cooling needs in thirty North American Universities
 Aldís Elfarsdóttir and Chase HikidaCorporate carbon accountability
 Max LangtryHow much data do we need to plan decarbonizaton? Introducing Value of Information analysis
 Emily GordonIdentifying and predicting large-scale drivers of extreme summer warming
 Chloe ChengStorm-driven heat entrainment over the winter Southern Ocean sea ice zone
 Elena SierraKnow Where You (Don't) Grow: Contrastive Learning with ContextPair for Biodiversity Monitoring
12:10 - 1:00 PMLunch 
1:00 - 2:00 PMSession 3 
 Enrica ArchettiHow Much Sustainability is Really in Stock Prices?
 Siddharth SachdevaCausal Forest Cooling
 Wylie KauData driven design of polymer materials for critical mineral recovery from alternative feedstocks
 Frances ReulandNew Collection of Large-Scale Controlled Methane Releases for Satellite-Based Detection and Emission Quantification of Methane Point-Sources
 Yuchen LiOn the Design, Merits, and Limitations of Machine Learning Models for Seasonal Sea Ice Forecasting
 Paul DingusUsing satellite imagery to monitor remote rural economies at high frequency
2:00 - 2:10 PMClosing Remarks 

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