Priya L. Donti

The images captured are actual images from cameras! AI is only used to classify which type of moth is which. For those it can't classify or is uncertain about, a human would take a look at the original camera image. So, hallucination is not a risk in this particular setting.

The Machines Finding Life That Humans Can’t See A suite of technologies are helping taxonomists speed up species identification.

"In a single week, AI processed many thousands of images each night, in which experts detected 2,000 moth species—half of them unknown to science."

Cool article on AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, feat. my awesome colleague @drolnick.bsky.social!

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI A profile of MIT Assistant Professor Priya Donti explores her approach to applying machine learning to optimize renewable energy.

Thank you to MIT News for the kind feature! ⚡️☀️

news.mit.edu/2025/fightin...

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

Context on the email sent to 9 universities, including MIT: apnews.com/article/trum...

Text of the Compact: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

MIT on the USG's Compact promising preferential treatment in exchange for specific on-campus changes:

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪

TIME100 AI 2025: Priya Donti Find out why Priya Donti made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence

Link to article: time.com/collections/...

And the full list: time.com/time100ai

While my name may happen to be the one on the list, this recognition reflects the work of many. Grateful to the team at @climatechangeai.bsky.social (esp. my co-leads David Rolnick, Lynn Kaack, Maria João Sousa), MIT MOSSLab (priyadonti.com/group), and my PhD advisors (Zico Kolter, Inês Azevedo)

Priya Donti's picture in the TIME100 AI frame

Beyond humbled to be on this year's #TIME100AI.

AI can be an asset for climate & energy -- but only if its development is guided by actual climate needs & planetary limits. Shoutout to those in the community working to shape a responsible, equitable, climate-aligned AI future 🌍💪

AI Climate Academy COP 30 Applications are now open for the AI Climate Academy pilot workshop, aimed at strengthening capacities in artificial intelligence (AI) applied to climate action in the Amazon region.

We are pleased to announce the AI Climate Academy partnership!

📅Pilot workshop from Oct 13 to 17, 2025, to be held in Belém, Brazil.

🚨Call open for participants from Amazonian countries. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025: itsrio2.typeform.com/AIClimate

Authors: @emarche.bsky.social, Benjamin Donnot, Constance Crozier (@gtresearchnews.bsky.social), Ian Dytham (@neso-energy.bsky.social‬), Christian Merz, Lars Schewe (‪@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social‬), Nico Westerbeck, @cathywu.bsky.social‬, Antoine Marot, ‪Priya Donti

Excited to share RL2Grid, an RL benchmark for power grid operations ⚡

We present tasks and environments for grid topology optimization, an important challenge in power systems that encompasses a number of open research questions in RL.

Check it out! More details below ⬇️

Congrats Alex!!

Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by @pratinavseth.bsky.social, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution).

More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.

bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!

go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

Glad to be here!