Priya Donti — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recognized on MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of 35 Innovators Under 35 and the 2025 TIME100 AI list.
Assistant Professor at MIT EECS and LIDS since 2023.
Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI, a global nonprofit initiative, since 2019.
Leads research on machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids.
Holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy.
Serves as an Advisory Board Member at Catalyst Cooperative since 2020.

Biography

Priya Donti is an Assistant Professor and the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Concurrently, she is a co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI, a global nonprofit initiative dedicated to catalyzing impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.