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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025
10:00am to 3:30pm
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Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Daniel Dauhajre, Assistant Professor, Computational Ocean Dynamics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor, Economics, California Institute of Technology,
Mark Jason Lara, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,

The Resnick Young Investigators Symposium celebrates innovators in the science and technology of sustainability. The program highlights young researchers whose work shows great promise in tackling key science and engineering challenges in sustainability.

2025 Program

10:00 AM - Coffee and mingling in RSC Lobby

10:10 AM - Opening Comments

10:15 AM - AI-enabled scientific discovery in image collections

Dr. Sara Beery, Assistant Professor | MIT CSAIL

11:05 AM - Mapping 20th century urban change by combining aerial photography and machine learning

Dr. Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor of Economics and William H. Hurt Scholar, Caltech

12:00 - 1:45 PM - Lunch Break

1:45 PM - Novel Disturbances in the Warming Arctic

Dr. Mark J. Lara, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2:35 PM - Approaches and Challenges to Quantifying the Viability of Seaweed Carbon Dioxide Removal

Dr. Daniel Dauhajre, Assistant Professor, ​Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara

3:25 PM - Closing Comments

3:30 PM - Reception in RSC Lobby

For more information, please email ramonae@caltech.edu or visit the Resnick Young Investigators webpage.