Pedram Hassanzadeh

For this episode of our series on AI in the US, I spoke to two experts who bring AI into their work on climate science, both from the University of Chicago's Department of Geophysical Sciences.

Professor Tiffany Shaw and Associate Professor Pedram Hassanzadeh.

Their work focuses on understanding the climate system and climate prediction, and how AI can be used to make better predictions about climate change.

At the University of Chicago, they lead the AI for Climate Initiative.

Our conversation covered how the technology around climate prediction has evolved in recent decades, how AI is now being used to make predictions about climate change and its effects, and the climate impacts of using AI itself to model climate change.

I started out by asking Tiffany Shaw and Pedram Hassanzadeh to outline their research and current work.

So my name is Tiffany Shaw, and I'm a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences here at the University of Chicago.

I'm a climate scientist, but a physicist by training, and much of my ongoing work is seeking to understand the physical response of the climate system to climate change and ensuring that our predictions, which underlie our ability to adapt or mitigate, are trustworthy.