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Tian Zheng, PhD

Author: Tian Zheng, PhD

Tian is a professor of statistics at Columbia University and deputy director of LEAP. Her work applies statistical thinking to the rigorous and responsible development of AI systems. She envisioned and led the LEAP–AWS collaboration on an Agentic AI system for climate data science.

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Democratizing climate data science: How Columbia University’s LEAP center built AutoClimDS on AWS

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.