Dr Mukkavilli has been a researcher across four continents in the past 10 years and technology advisor for various organisations. He is helping lead the synergistic future of artificial intelligence with Earth system science, climate change and energy disciplines for organisations and the well-being of people.
He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow for a Turing Laureate in deep learning and collaborates with IPCC Nobel Prize winning climate scientists. He founded a startup to build planetary climate intelligence that was a finalist at Creative Destruction Lab. He co-authored papers featured in MIT Tech Review and National Geographic on climate change and machine learning, and developed the carbon cycle method and plant-rich diet solution for the NY Times bestseller, Drawdown. He is an advisor to McConnell Foundation on civic transition with technology, serves on American Meteorological Society AI committee, technology advisory board of World Energy Meteorology Council, is a senior consultant to Keeling Curve Prize and an affiliate AI research scholar at Berkeley Lab.
In his new role in California, he will be working to fundamentally advance Earth system models using machine learning on the US Department of Energy billion dollar exascale computing initiative.
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At Mila – Quebec AI Institute, he has been a postdoc fellow with the scientific director, Yoshua Bengio on the visualizing climate change project co-founded with Microsoft Research. At the McGill School of Computer Science he has been a Postdoc scholar leading AI for Earth Science efforts such as the EnviroNet: repository of ImageNet analogs for the environment with several collaborators for benchmarking AI progress. He led a contract with Rutherford Appleton Lab in European Space Agency’s Earth Observations data science entrepreneurship initiative.
He completed Harvard Business School Executive's Program for Leaders in Digital Innovation sponsored by Harvard Club of Australia. During his PhD with University of New South Wales’(UNSW) School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering he was a Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Office of Chief Executive Scholar in their flagship Ocean and Atmosphere division and a visiting affiliate at Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. He received a MSc in Chemical Engineering with Imperial College London’s Centre for Process Systems Engineering, and a BE (Honours) from the University of Auckland’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a UCLA exchange scholarship.
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