AI, Energy, and Climate: Alp Kucukelbir: AI in Industry, Education and More

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Alp Kucukelbir serves as Chief Scientist at Fero Labs, teaches two courses on AI and climate change at Columbia University, and wrote several chapters in the AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap (Second Edition). Join host David Sandalow in a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Kucukelbir as they discuss the use of AI in advanced manufacturing, educating students in the AI era, how to explain complex AI topics, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.7	Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast, a special series from the DSR Network hosted by David Sandalow, inaugural fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
0:47.3	Join us as we talk with leading experts to explore the intersection between these critical issues that will impact the future of each and every one of us.
0:55.0	This podcast is sponsored in part by Nido, the new energy and industrial technology development organization, a national research
1:13.1	and development agency in Japan.
1:20.1	Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast. I'm David Sandalow. Several months ago, a group of
1:26.0	us released a 17-chapter report on how to use AI to help
1:29.7	fight climate change. We analyzed eight sectors, including the power sector, the manufacturing
1:34.6	sector, the building sector. We found that AI has the potential to help cut greenhouse gas emissions
1:39.9	in all of them. We looked at barriers to using AI, including barriers related to data, people,
1:45.7	and compute, and risks of using AI as well, which are very important. Our reports called the
1:52.3	artificial intelligence for climate change mitigation roadmap, and you can download it for
1:56.9	free or buy a print version on Amazon. We'll put details on how to do that in the show notes.
2:04.0	So one of the principal co-authors of our roadmap was Alp Kuchukalbier. He wrote several
2:10.8	chapters in the roadmap and played a key role in many more. Dr. Kuchelbergbier has a PhD in computer science from Yale, where his
2:19.1	dissertation won the Best Thesis Award. He's currently the chief scientist at Farrow Labs, a company
2:25.3	that provides industrial AI for process optimization. He and I are teaching a course together
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