University of Washington
Computing for the Environment

About Us

Computing for the Environment (CS4Env) at the University of Washington supports novel collaborations across the broad fields of environmental sciences and computer science & engineering. We seek to catalyze new efforts, create a community of cross-disciplinary researchers, and position teams to be competitive for additional funding opportunities. The initiative engages environmental scientists and engineers, computer scientists and engineers, and data scientists in using advanced technologies, methodologies and computing resources to accelerate research that addresses pressing societal challenges related to climate change, pollution, biodiversity and more.

Spring Symposium

Our annual CS4Env Symposium will be on Friday, May 30th, from 1:00-6:00pm in the Zillow Commons, located on the 4th floor of the Gates Center (CSE2).

This symposium and networking event will focus on the theme of AI and the Future of Hazard-Resilient Energy Systems at the University of Washington. Join us for presentations, panel sessions, a poster session and light refreshments. There will be opportunities to talk with other participants from academia, industry and friends of the UW who are working at the frontier of AI and the environment.

Upcoming Events

April 8, 2025
  • CS4Env Seminar

    April 8, 2025  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Join us for our bi-weekly coffee and talks

    Location: eScience Institute on the 6th floor of the Physics-Astronomy building

    Details: Mars Gao (UW CSE): Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics and Koopman operates with Shallow Recurrent Decoder Networks

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April 22, 2025
  • CS4Env Seminar

    April 22, 2025  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Join us for our bi-weekly coffee and talks

    Location: eScience Institute on the 6th floor of the Physics-Astronomy building

    Details: Zhihan Zhang (UW CSE)- Work in progress demo of a Google Chrome extension that automatically estimates the carbon footprint of products and analyzes the sustainability of methods in research papers.

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May 6, 2025
  • CS4Env Seminar

    May 6, 2025  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Join us for our bi-weekly coffee and talks

    Location: eScience Institute on the 6th floor of the Physics-Astronomy building

    Details: TBD

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The Computing for the Environment initiative is supported in part by the Allen School, the College of the Environment, the College of Engineering, the eScience Institute, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Endowed Fund for Excellence, and a gift from Google.