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🌿  Climate Computing

The Institute for Climate & Sustainable Computing addresses the dual challenge of greening computation and leveraging computation to address climate change.

Breakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NNBreakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NN
3Laboratories
24+Researchers
180+Publications
$32MFunding

Laboratories

Three Specialized Laboratories

Each lab operates independently with dedicated staff, shared institute infrastructure, and its own research agenda.

GCA

Green Computer Architecture Laboratory

Dir: Dr. Dominick Rizk

Energy-proportional computing, approximate computing, near-threshold voltage operation, and architectural techniques for dramatic reductions in computing energy consumption.

Carbon-Aware SchedulingApproximate ML InferenceNear-Threshold ProcessorsEnergy Harvesting Systems
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AICSL

AI for Climate Science Laboratory

Dir: Dr. Dominick Rizk

Machine learning for climate simulation acceleration, downscaling, extreme weather prediction, and carbon cycle modeling. Physics-informed neural networks for earth systems.

Neural Climate EmulatorsExtreme Weather ForecastingCarbon Flux PredictionClimate Bias Correction
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SDCS

Sustainable Data Center & Systems Lab

Dir: Dr. Dominick Rizk

Renewable energy integration, liquid cooling, workload migration, and lifecycle analysis for hyperscale and edge data centers seeking net-zero operation.

Renewable-Aware SchedulingImmersion Cooling DesignE-Waste ReductionEdge-Cloud Carbon Optimization
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Selected Publications

Recent Research

2025
Flagship 2025 Result — Landmark Contribution to Climate Computing Science
Rizk, D. et al. · Climate Computing
Nature / Science 2025
Featured Article
2025
Advanced Methods from Climate Computing — Theory and Empirical Study
Rizk, D. et al · Climate Computing
Top Conference 2025
Best Paper
2024
Foundational Work Establishing New Paradigms in Climate Computing Research
Rizk, D. et al · Climate Computing
Flagship Journal 2024
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