Dr Anne Jones (IBM Research Europe) will give the ESE Departmental Seminar on 17 March: “AI for Climate Impacts”.

Join us online on 17 March by clicking “Livestream” on the seminar page at 12pm.

Abstract

Climate change adaptation in both the public and private sectors urgently requires better risk quantification tools to inform decision-making and planning across multiple timescales.

In this seminar, Anne will give an overview of IBM’s research activities in climate impact modelling and present a perspective on how innovations in AI and cloud computing can improve the quantification of climate hazards such as floods, droughts, and wildfire. She will describe how applications of AI techniques can enhance hazard models by improving calibration, validation and uncertainty quantification with a focus on flood risk, and describe how these techniques are being brought together in reusable tools as part of the Climate Impact Modelling Framework, CIMF.

Biography

Dr Anne Jones is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe, based at Daresbury, UK.

Before joining IBM in 2018, she undertook a PhD and Postdoctoral research at the University of Liverpool, developing and applying weather and climate impact models across multiple domains in the environmental and biological sciences, with a particular focus on vector-borne disease. Since 2020 she has been leading work in IBM Research’s Future of Climate programme. Her current interests are the application of AI and geospatial big data analytics to climate hazard and impact modelling for both business and societal use cases.