I am an Associate Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and at Mila – Quebec AI Institute. My group’s work focuses on innovations in machine learning driven by problems in climate change – encompassing areas including biodiversity, remote sensing, and Earth science. I also serve as Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI, co-lead of the NSF-NSERC Global Center on AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC), and Scientific Co-director of Sustainability in the Digital Age. I am a Sloan Research Fellow and AI2050 Fellow and was named to the MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” list for work in building the field of machine learning and climate change. Previously, I was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UPenn and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at MIT.

We are recruiting M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for the Fall 2027 cycle (see instructions on the Mila application portal). All such positions include a stipend and tuition is also fully covered.

Questions about NeurIPS 2026 should be addressed to pc2026 [at] neurips.cc – I will not be able to respond to any inquiries sent to me directly.