EECS has historically been very strong in power systems, and is
renewing this strength in the hiring of new faculty in power and energy systems. EECS faculty work on developing
the next generation of power system simulation models. They have developed automated robotic indoor mapping
systems to perform energy audits of buildings in order to improve their energy efficiency. And, they study the
effect of data centers on the environment by calculating the energy use and carbon footprint of different recent
large ML models, and highlighting the opportunities to improve energy efficiency and CO2 equivalent emissions.
EECS faculty are also working on methods to effectively sequester carbon in agriculture and seaweed farms. Also,
the new BIDMAP center is exploring the use of AI to design new materials to address climate change.
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