Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
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
9:30 AM - RSI research posters, 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