Climate & Sustainability

Sustainability-focused innovation and discovery to address grand climate challenges through carbon accounting, capture and utilization. Powered by IBM Research and leveraging Illinois' technology strengths, extensive domain expertise in climate science, sustainable supply chains and CO2 management strengths, researchers will explore technologies to create a sustainable hybrid cloud and climate-smart supply chains and accelerate the discovery of new materials for CO2 capture and conversion.

Current Research Projects

Illinois Faculty IBM Technical Leads  Topic
Han Zhao, Deepak Vasisht, Minh Do 
Johannes Schmude
Toward Efficient Architectures for Spatio-Temporal and Multi-spectral Geospatial Foundation Models
Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He Yada Zhu

Physics-informed Graph-centric Grid Foundation Model

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