Karthik Kashinath is a principal engineer and scientist in HPC+AI at NVIDIA. He co-leads NVIDIA’s Earth-2 initiative, which utilizes cutting-edge large-scale AI to build Earth digital twins for weather and climate applications. A current focus of Earth-2 is on adapting generative AI technologies that are transforming the industry for scientific computing. Karthik is trained as a mechanical and aerospace engineer with a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Masters from Stanford University and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he worked at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in climate informatics, big data analytics, and physics-informed machine learning for fluid dynamics and Earth system science applications.