AMSimp's teen founders predict weather with machine learning – IAM Network

Our Start-up of the Week is AMSimp, an Irish duo creating open-source software that leverages machine learning to improve numerical weather predictions. Earlier this year, Dogpatch Labs hosted the Patch summer accelerator, which invited talented young people between the ages of 16 and 19 to receive mentorship from Irish entrepreneurs and tech veterans. The accelerator, which aimed to root out and prepare future entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers to help them create impactful companies, technology and research played an important role in the foundation of AMSimp. Co-founded by Conor Casey and Laura O'Sullivan, the start-up sees a great opportunity to improve the methods used to predict the weather. O'Sullivan, who is a self-taught machine learning developer has previously won prizes for exoplanet detection and cervical cancer screening research.