Artificial Intelligence Against Climate Change

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After taking Networks with Dr. Behnam Dezfouli I was invited to begin graduate research under his guidance with a Ph.D. student an as introduction, continuing research on my and eventually publishing a paper. I began helping the Ph.D. student research whether Internet of Things (IoT) devices could reduce packet drops and latency while improving throughput in comparison to regular node devices. After my time researching the computational power and prevalence of AI and my work through my Fellowship, I was curious about whether combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the IoT could reduce energy consumption in the sectors of the United States that draw the most energy -- the residential, transportation, and industrial sectors. I read many studies, patents, and articles on current uses of AI and the IoT, energy consumption of modern systems, algorithms most commonly used, effective edge computing designs, and theoretical implications of edge computing. I compiled my knowledge and research into my own paper, "Artificial Intelligence Against Climate Change", where I reasoned that by using AI and the IoT in conjunction, we could offload energy-intensive computation and message passing to edge devices, in turn reducing energy consumption, packet drops, and latency while improving reliability and performance through AI system management. It would be possible to construct Smart Cities using this infrastructure. In addition, I learned that these systems benefit most from tracking human preference to tailor algorithms and therefore performance to human lifestyles. Human involvement and awareness could prompt the public to become more involved in the technology that guides their daily lives. Nearly every part of human life is touched by technology in our modern age -- it is imperative we consider human computer interaction to make technology that is useful, ethical, and sustainable. We must build technology to improve the life of our community and for the future of our communities, or else what are we building technology for? 

My paper will be published in Springer's series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" and presented at the Computing Conference 2021.