Active projects

The AI Persuation Project

Collaborators: London School of Economics (lead) and 40 others

Funders: Cambridge Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) Grants (2023 - 24)

Measuring message frames of climate spending and religiosity in India using Large Language Models

Collaborators: Faculty of Economics, Cambridge

Funders: Keynes Fund for Applied Economics (2024 - 25)

Cambridge climaTRACES initiative

Collaborators: Cambridge Judge Business School

Funders: CRASSH (2024 - 25)

Responsible & Trustworthy AI: Economic landscape analysis of the UK

Collaborators: Bennett Institute of Public Policy, King's College London and the Productivity Institute

Funders: UKRI EPSRC - Responsible AI UK Grant

Ethically rooted AI for public value

Collaborators: Dept.of Engineering, Land economy and Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence

Funders: ai@cam, University of Cambridge

Designing climate action AI using human-in-the-loop design interventions

Collaborators: Bard College Berlin, Indian Statistical Institute, Copenhagen Business School and Caltech

Funders: Cambridge Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) Grants (2023 - 24)

Perception of personal carbon emissions inequality in high and lower-middle income countries

Collaborators: Copenhagen Business School

Funder: QCF (2022-23) and Keynes Fund for Applied Economics (JHVH)

Desirable and responsible AI for climate action: A scoping project

Collaborators: Cambridge CST, TU Berlin, MCC-Berlin and Boston University

Funders: Google Cloud (2022) and QCF (2022-23)

Measuring heatwave impacts on Sustainable Development Goals in India

Collaborators: Yale School of Environment and University of Michigan

Funder: QCF (2022-23)

Impact: Blanket press coverage in 200+ news agencies, including major Indian and international agencies like Bloomberg, Associated Press, and Reuters, the BBC, and influential magazines such as Wired and TIME Magazine. Invited to present at an G20 Summit event in India.

Solar geoengineering public perception, conspiracy spillovers and ethical dimensions

Collaborators: Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair, MCC-Berlin and Caltech

Funder: Centre for Climate Repair (2021-22), Google Cloud (2022), Keynes Fund (JHVH) and QCF (2022-23)

Impact: Press coverage in TIME Magazine, Cambridge Independent

Climate accountability and misinformation in the fossil fuel industry

Collaborators: Cambridge Judge Business School and Caltech

Funder: CJBS Small Grants (2021), Keynes Fund (JHVH), and QCF (2022-23)

Computing for distributive energy justice in slum rehabilitation housing

Collaborators: CJBS and Bennett Institute for Public Policy

Funder: Keynes Fund (JHVH)

Nuclear energy perception in the UK amidst the war in Ukraine

Collaborators: Energy Policy Research Group, CJBS

Funder: Energy@Cam and Isaac Newton Trust (2022-23)

Completed projects (2022 and earlier)

Hydrogen energy transition and public perception

Collaborators: Oxford University

Funder: Climate Compatible Growth Programme (2021-22)

Multi-dimensional electric vehicle adoption drivers in the US

Collaborators: Michigan Conservative Energy Forum (MiCEF), US

Funder: MiCEF (2020)

Key publication: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

COVID-19 effects on residential electricity demand in India

Collaborators: IEA, LBNL and CMU

Funder: Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre and Isaac Newton Trust (2020-21)

Key publication: Energy Policy

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