We are delighted to host the following keynote speakers at the 5th ML4EO.
Prof Srinivasan Keshav
University of Cambridge, UK
Prof Srinivasan Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. His interests lie broadly at the intersection of computer science and sustainability. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs and an Associate Professor at Cornell. In 1999 he left academia to co-found Ensim Corporation and GreenBorder Technologies Inc. Returning to academia, he was at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2003 to 2019, holding a Canada Research Chair and later the Cisco Chair in Smart Grid. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE, and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi. He has served as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and founding Vice-Chair of ACM SIGEnergy.
Prof Ribana Roscher
University of Bonn, Germany
Prof Ribana Roscher is Professor of Machine Learning in Agriculture at the University of Bonn. Her research explores how machine learning can become more reliable, interpretable, and scientifically useful when applied to complex real-world data. She works on explainable AI, uncertainty quantification, and data-centric machine learning, with applications ranging from Earth observation and environmental monitoring to crop science and agriculture. Before joining the University of Bonn as a full professor, she led the Data Science for Crop Systems group at Forschungszentrum Jülich..
