Media
Selected press coverage of work I have led or contributed to at the Microsoft AI for Good Lab — spanning satellite-scale climate and energy monitoring, conservation in the Amazon, medical AI in low-resource settings, and disaster & humanitarian response. Each item links to the original article; the blurb explains which of my projects it features.
Climate & Renewable Energy
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2025The New York Times
Here’s What the Rise of Clean Energy Looks Like From Space
Interactive feature built on Global Renewables Watch, our quarterly atlas of utility-scale solar and onshore wind mapped from satellite imagery.
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2022Analytics India Magazine
An AI Model that Identifies Where Solar Farms Are Located in India
Coverage of our nationwide inventory of utility-scale solar farms in India to support renewable-energy siting and policy.
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2021Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the Effects of Glacial Melting at the Top of the World
Open data and ML to monitor Hindu Kush Himalaya glaciers, funded by a Microsoft AI Research Grant.
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Conservation & Biodiversity
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2025AI for Cause
Project Guacamaya: AI for the Amazon
Feature on our work using AI to fight deforestation and monitor biodiversity across the Amazon basin.
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2025Microsoft Source · Latin America
Using AI to Help Protect the Amazon Rainforest from Deforestation
In-depth profile of the Project Guacamaya partnership and the AI models powering near-real-time deforestation alerts.
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2025Forbes Perú
Usarán IA para monitorear especies en la Amazonía peruana
On extending our AI tools to monitor endangered species across the Peruvian Amazon.
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2024AI Insider
AI: The Guardian of the Amazon Rainforest
Overview of how our models combine satellite, acoustic, and camera-trap data to safeguard the rainforest.
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2022The Atlantic
Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found
Feature on detecting whales, elk, and cattle from very-high-resolution satellite imagery for biodiversity monitoring.
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Health
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2025Ophthalmology Times
Assessment of AI-Enabled Screening for ROP in Low-Resource Settings
Coverage of our JAMA Network Open study deploying AI screening for retinopathy of prematurity where pediatric ophthalmologists are scarce.
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2021VentureBeat
Microsoft Researchers Tap AI for Anonymous Data Sharing in Healthcare
Profile of FELICIA, our federated generative-modeling framework that lets hospitals share usable synthetic medical data.
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Disaster Response & Humanitarian Action
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2026Planet Pulse
The LA Fires: Reflections on Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation, One Year Later
One-year retrospective featuring our Rapid Building Damage Assessment workflow.
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2025UNHCR · USA for UNHCR
Kakuma and Kalobeyei: Drone Imagery and Machine Learning for Better Planning of Refugee Settlements
Profile of our AI-assisted mapping of the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee settlements in Kenya, with UNHCR and HOT, to support infrastructure and service planning.
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2024Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Kakuma & Kalobeyei Community Mapping
HOT’s overview of the community-mapping partnership behind our refugee-settlements work — recipient of the 2024 GitHub Award for Good.
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2024The GitHub Blog
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 Recipients
Our refugee-settlements mapping project with UNHCR and HOT received the 2024 GitHub Award for Good.
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2021The Wall Street Journal
AI Emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes
On the AI tools we built to help human-rights groups process vast troves of evidence.
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2021Microsoft
Turkish Red Crescent Restores Refugee Family Links with AI for Humanitarian Action
Profile of our partnership using AI to reconnect refugee families separated by conflict and displacement.
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