David Rolnick is an Assistant Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and at Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He is a Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI and serves as Scientific Co-director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and co-lead of the Global Center on AI and Biodiversity ChangeĀ (ABC). Dr. Rolnick is a Sloan Research Fellow and an AI2050 Early Career Fellow and was named to the MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of “35 Innovators Under 35” for his work in building the field of AI and climate change. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT and is a former Fulbright Scholar, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow.