Harini Srinivasan

Harini Srinivasan is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Sustainability Software organization. She currently manages a team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers and focuses on building AI solutions using weather data, satellite imagery, and other geo-spatial data. Over her tenure at IBM, Harini has worked with several clients – be it in analyzing and fixing performance problems in enterprise applications, or bringing new innovative solutions to clients in various technical areas like deployment, Social Media Data Analysis, B2B solutions using Weather and other geo-spatial data. Her current focus is application of AI models (including Generative AI) that use environment data such as satellite imagery, weather for sustainability solutions such as Outage Prediction, Vegetation Management and Carbon Sequestration.

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Sessions

11-02
11:40
40min
Using Generative AI and Foundation Models to Predict Above Ground Biomass for Nature Based Carbon Sequestration
Harini Srinivasan, Gurkanwar Singh

A key challenge in training AI models is lack of labeled or ground truth data. This is especially true in the remote sensing field where seasonal changes and differences between label characteristics makes difficult creating a common labeled dataset. With the emergence of self-supervised learning the amount and quality of labeled data can be relaxed but model performance is still of paramount importance. This is especially true for quantifying the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases that drive climate change. In this talk, we present how state of the art AI technologies such as generative AI and Foundation Models can be used to estimate Above Ground Biomass (AGBD) changes due to extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere by vegetation. We demonstrate how these tools can be used by companies with NetZero pledge to quantify, monitor, validate and report their offsetting methodologies and sustainability practices.

Music Box (Room 5411)