Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability and Professor, Computing & Data Sciences and Earth & Environment
Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Barnes is the Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability and Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Her group’s research focuses on understanding Earth system variability, predictability, and change across time and space, with an emphasis on developing and implementing artificial intelligence tools in a way that mimics scientific human reasoning to improve intrinsic interpretability. An overarching research goal of her group is to responsibly harness AI to anticipate human-Earth system futures in support of a thriving society in the decades ahead. She teaches graduate courses on statistical analysis, machine learning for the Earth sciences, and data-driven forecasting across timescales from days-to-decades.