Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence Researcher, University of Oxford
Lucas Kruitwagen is a geospatial data scientist with research at the intersection of technology, information, and the governance of environmental risk. He is a machine learning generalist and computer vision specialist, and has publications on the topics of remote sensing, energy systems, and sustainable finance. He is a Microsoft AIforEarth grantee and maintains Visiting Scholar affiliations with both Stanford University and Imperial College London. Lucas holds an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London, and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University where he was a Loran Scholar.
We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning
Oct 31, 2021 23:31 pm UTC| Science
An astonishing 82% decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a fighting chance to build a zero-emissions energy system which might be less costly than the fossil-fuelled system...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects