Lily Xu
@lilyxu.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Columbia IEOR developing AI for decision-making in planetary health.
https://lily-x.github.io
https://lily-x.github.io
Launching AI for Public Goods Fast Grants!
We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods.
💰 $10k per project
💰 $800 reviewer compensation
PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.
We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods.
💰 $10k per project
💰 $800 reviewer compensation
PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.
Announcing AI for Public Goods Fast Grants (AI4PG) 2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Recerts
Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods
recerts.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Launching AI for Public Goods Fast Grants!
We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods.
💰 $10k per project
💰 $800 reviewer compensation
PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.
We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods.
💰 $10k per project
💰 $800 reviewer compensation
PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.
Columbia University is launching a new MS in Biodiversity Data Analytics to start in fall 2026!
Join the launch event to discuss analytics and data science for nature in business, investment, and policy.
Wed, Nov 5
6–8pm
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social in NYC or remote
Join the launch event to discuss analytics and data science for nature in business, investment, and policy.
Wed, Nov 5
6–8pm
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social in NYC or remote
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Columbia University is launching a new MS in Biodiversity Data Analytics to start in fall 2026!
Join the launch event to discuss analytics and data science for nature in business, investment, and policy.
Wed, Nov 5
6–8pm
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social in NYC or remote
Join the launch event to discuss analytics and data science for nature in business, investment, and policy.
Wed, Nov 5
6–8pm
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social in NYC or remote
Come be our colleague at Columbia IEOR! Open-rank (tenure-track or tenured) position with a priority deadline of November 21.
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Come be our colleague at Columbia IEOR! Open-rank (tenure-track or tenured) position with a priority deadline of November 21.
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track asst. prof. in computational ecology and evolution!
If you use or develop computational tools—AI, data science, stats—to deepen our understanding of eco/evo, evaluate nature-based solutions, or inform and manage impacts on human wellbeing, please apply!
If you use or develop computational tools—AI, data science, stats—to deepen our understanding of eco/evo, evaluate nature-based solutions, or inform and manage impacts on human wellbeing, please apply!
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track asst. prof. in computational ecology and evolution!
If you use or develop computational tools—AI, data science, stats—to deepen our understanding of eco/evo, evaluate nature-based solutions, or inform and manage impacts on human wellbeing, please apply!
If you use or develop computational tools—AI, data science, stats—to deepen our understanding of eco/evo, evaluate nature-based solutions, or inform and manage impacts on human wellbeing, please apply!
Very happy to be part of this new paper brilliantly led by @calebscoville.bsky.social on new opportunities for stakeholder participation with dynamic management compared to static management of natural resources! 🌳🌏🙋
New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
September 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Very happy to be part of this new paper brilliantly led by @calebscoville.bsky.social on new opportunities for stakeholder participation with dynamic management compared to static management of natural resources! 🌳🌏🙋
Reposted by Lily Xu
My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle!
Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.
More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io
My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io
Please help repost/spread the word!
Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.
More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io
My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io
Please help repost/spread the word!
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle!
Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.
More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io
My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io
Please help repost/spread the word!
Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.
More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io
My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io
Please help repost/spread the word!
Reposted by Lily Xu
The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
Dave Thau, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, and I are organizing biodiversity webinar talks for @itu.int AI for Good.
Next week, I'll chat with Iadine Chades (Monash) on the promise and impact of decision AI for biodiversity.
Please share questions you'd love to ask Iadine or our upcoming speakers!
Next week, I'll chat with Iadine Chades (Monash) on the promise and impact of decision AI for biodiversity.
Please share questions you'd love to ask Iadine or our upcoming speakers!
May 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Dave Thau, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, and I are organizing biodiversity webinar talks for @itu.int AI for Good.
Next week, I'll chat with Iadine Chades (Monash) on the promise and impact of decision AI for biodiversity.
Please share questions you'd love to ask Iadine or our upcoming speakers!
Next week, I'll chat with Iadine Chades (Monash) on the promise and impact of decision AI for biodiversity.
Please share questions you'd love to ask Iadine or our upcoming speakers!
I'm hiring for a machine learning data scientist & research assistant for summer 2025!
Join me on a project on invasive species management with an innovative startup doing on-the-ground removal of environmentally destructive invasive animals.
Paid, full-time w/ possibility to extend.
Join me on a project on invasive species management with an innovative startup doing on-the-ground removal of environmentally destructive invasive animals.
Paid, full-time w/ possibility to extend.
April 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm hiring for a machine learning data scientist & research assistant for summer 2025!
Join me on a project on invasive species management with an innovative startup doing on-the-ground removal of environmentally destructive invasive animals.
Paid, full-time w/ possibility to extend.
Join me on a project on invasive species management with an innovative startup doing on-the-ground removal of environmentally destructive invasive animals.
Paid, full-time w/ possibility to extend.
Thrilled to be here in Singapore for #ICLR2025!
Find me:
Friday @ 3–5:30pm
Poster #416
RL with combinatorial actions
Friday @ 6:30pm
Panelist at CCAI x ETH event
Sunday @ 9am
Invited talk @ XAI4Science workshop
Monday all day
Hall 4 #3
Organizing @climatechangeai.bsky.social workshop
Find me:
Friday @ 3–5:30pm
Poster #416
RL with combinatorial actions
Friday @ 6:30pm
Panelist at CCAI x ETH event
Sunday @ 9am
Invited talk @ XAI4Science workshop
Monday all day
Hall 4 #3
Organizing @climatechangeai.bsky.social workshop
April 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Thrilled to be here in Singapore for #ICLR2025!
Find me:
Friday @ 3–5:30pm
Poster #416
RL with combinatorial actions
Friday @ 6:30pm
Panelist at CCAI x ETH event
Sunday @ 9am
Invited talk @ XAI4Science workshop
Monday all day
Hall 4 #3
Organizing @climatechangeai.bsky.social workshop
Find me:
Friday @ 3–5:30pm
Poster #416
RL with combinatorial actions
Friday @ 6:30pm
Panelist at CCAI x ETH event
Sunday @ 9am
Invited talk @ XAI4Science workshop
Monday all day
Hall 4 #3
Organizing @climatechangeai.bsky.social workshop
Thrilled to be co-organizing the Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at #ICLR2025 and bringing in these fantastic keynote speakers!
Join us April 28 (in Singapore or free livestream) to hear from @yisongyue.bsky.social on AI for science and Iadine Chades on AI for biodiversity.
Join us April 28 (in Singapore or free livestream) to hear from @yisongyue.bsky.social on AI for science and Iadine Chades on AI for biodiversity.
We're excited to announce @yisongyue.bsky.social and Iadine Chades as keynote speakers at our #ICLR2025 workshop on Apr 28! 🎉
Learn more about the workshop and our free livestream here: www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
A big thanks to @mila-quebec.bsky.social for sponsoring the event.
Learn more about the workshop and our free livestream here: www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
A big thanks to @mila-quebec.bsky.social for sponsoring the event.
April 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Thrilled to be co-organizing the Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at #ICLR2025 and bringing in these fantastic keynote speakers!
Join us April 28 (in Singapore or free livestream) to hear from @yisongyue.bsky.social on AI for science and Iadine Chades on AI for biodiversity.
Join us April 28 (in Singapore or free livestream) to hear from @yisongyue.bsky.social on AI for science and Iadine Chades on AI for biodiversity.
Reposted by Lily Xu
Are you interested in boldly reimagining how we can finance #naturerecovery at scale, beyond mainstream market mechanisms?
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Are you interested in boldly reimagining how we can finance #naturerecovery at scale, beyond mainstream market mechanisms?
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Reposted by Lily Xu
🌎 Join CEGA for #MeasureDev2025: Biodiversity on Land and at Sea on April 29 at The World Bank in Washington, DC!
Explore cutting-edge biodiversity measurement approaches with leading researchers & policymakers shaping conservation strategies. #datasky
Register: cega.berkeley.edu/event/measur...
Explore cutting-edge biodiversity measurement approaches with leading researchers & policymakers shaping conservation strategies. #datasky
Register: cega.berkeley.edu/event/measur...
Measuring Development 2025: Biodiversity on Land and at Sea
Human flourishing depends on biodiversity: the animals, plants, and other living organisms whose functions make Earth habitable and whose existence holds intrinsic value. New data and applications...
cega.berkeley.edu
March 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🌎 Join CEGA for #MeasureDev2025: Biodiversity on Land and at Sea on April 29 at The World Bank in Washington, DC!
Explore cutting-edge biodiversity measurement approaches with leading researchers & policymakers shaping conservation strategies. #datasky
Register: cega.berkeley.edu/event/measur...
Explore cutting-edge biodiversity measurement approaches with leading researchers & policymakers shaping conservation strategies. #datasky
Register: cega.berkeley.edu/event/measur...
Can we use RL to plan with combinatorial constraints?
Our #ICLR2025 paper combines deep RL with mathematical programming to do so! We embed a trained Q-network into a mixed-integer program, into which we can specify NP-hard constraints.
w/ brwilder.bsky.social, Elias Khalil, Milind Tambe
Our #ICLR2025 paper combines deep RL with mathematical programming to do so! We embed a trained Q-network into a mixed-integer program, into which we can specify NP-hard constraints.
w/ brwilder.bsky.social, Elias Khalil, Milind Tambe
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Can we use RL to plan with combinatorial constraints?
Our #ICLR2025 paper combines deep RL with mathematical programming to do so! We embed a trained Q-network into a mixed-integer program, into which we can specify NP-hard constraints.
w/ brwilder.bsky.social, Elias Khalil, Milind Tambe
Our #ICLR2025 paper combines deep RL with mathematical programming to do so! We embed a trained Q-network into a mixed-integer program, into which we can specify NP-hard constraints.
w/ brwilder.bsky.social, Elias Khalil, Milind Tambe
I’m really looking forward to joining the Oxford Internet Institute on Tuesday!
In-person and online, 5:30pm GMT.
In-person and online, 5:30pm GMT.
It's not too late to sign up for Dr Lily Xu's event on Tuesday 25th February, "Algorithmic decision making and participation for biodiversity conservation" - both in-person at the OII and online.
Register here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Register here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’m really looking forward to joining the Oxford Internet Institute on Tuesday!
In-person and online, 5:30pm GMT.
In-person and online, 5:30pm GMT.
Reposted by Lily Xu
I got to see the amazing @lilyxu.bsky.social present at the last @ai-env-summit.bsky.social and I can highly recommend attending her talk 🤩
It's not too late to sign up for Dr Lily Xu's event on Tuesday 25th February, "Algorithmic decision making and participation for biodiversity conservation" - both in-person at the OII and online.
Register here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Register here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I got to see the amazing @lilyxu.bsky.social present at the last @ai-env-summit.bsky.social and I can highly recommend attending her talk 🤩
Reposted by Lily Xu
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Our paper on unlocking the value of ranger-based monitoring (RBM), now out in Conservation Letters!
Our work is a practical guide on when RBM may be useful for biodiversity conservation and protected area management, with some hard-won lessons for implementing RBM effectively.
🐘🌳🪺🤳🥾🪖
Our work is a practical guide on when RBM may be useful for biodiversity conservation and protected area management, with some hard-won lessons for implementing RBM effectively.
🐘🌳🪺🤳🥾🪖
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our paper on unlocking the value of ranger-based monitoring (RBM), now out in Conservation Letters!
Our work is a practical guide on when RBM may be useful for biodiversity conservation and protected area management, with some hard-won lessons for implementing RBM effectively.
🐘🌳🪺🤳🥾🪖
Our work is a practical guide on when RBM may be useful for biodiversity conservation and protected area management, with some hard-won lessons for implementing RBM effectively.
🐘🌳🪺🤳🥾🪖
Submit your work on data-centric machine learning to tackle climate change and nature-based challenges! ☀️🌱🐋🌳
And join us at #ICLR2025 in April in Singapore 🌏
And join us at #ICLR2025 in April in Singapore 🌏
We're excited to announce the next edition of our workshop "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning" at #ICLR2025 in Singapore!
▶️ Mentorship program deadline: Dec 27, 2024
▶️ Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025
Learn more & submit: climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
▶️ Mentorship program deadline: Dec 27, 2024
▶️ Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025
Learn more & submit: climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
December 17, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Submit your work on data-centric machine learning to tackle climate change and nature-based challenges! ☀️🌱🐋🌳
And join us at #ICLR2025 in April in Singapore 🌏
And join us at #ICLR2025 in April in Singapore 🌏
Reposted by Lily Xu
Seven events to begin the academic year
Incl. ⤵️
Ranger patrols deter poaching @lilyxu.bsky.social
Forecasting UK Inflation 2021-24 with Sir David Hendry @climatemetrics.bsky.social
Out With Council Tax, In With A Green Land Value Tax!
And more...
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Incl. ⤵️
Ranger patrols deter poaching @lilyxu.bsky.social
Forecasting UK Inflation 2021-24 with Sir David Hendry @climatemetrics.bsky.social
Out With Council Tax, In With A Green Land Value Tax!
And more...
us4.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
October 12, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Seven events to begin the academic year
Incl. ⤵️
Ranger patrols deter poaching @lilyxu.bsky.social
Forecasting UK Inflation 2021-24 with Sir David Hendry @climatemetrics.bsky.social
Out With Council Tax, In With A Green Land Value Tax!
And more...
us4.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
Incl. ⤵️
Ranger patrols deter poaching @lilyxu.bsky.social
Forecasting UK Inflation 2021-24 with Sir David Hendry @climatemetrics.bsky.social
Out With Council Tax, In With A Green Land Value Tax!
And more...
us4.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...