Dmitrii Kochkov

Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather

- Andrea Thompson

As a child in Petrozavodsk, Russia, Dmitrii Kochkov loved solving geometry puzzles with his parents. In high school he participated in math and physics competitions. By the time he reached graduate school, he had turned toward machine learning and quantum physics to solve tough problems. The now 34-year-old joined Google Research as an AI resident in 2019, using machine learning to create programs that could solve interesting equations. His career then turned toward weather and climate change.