About

Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society (UK), AK Singh Chair Faculty (IIT Kharagpur), BOYSCAST Fellow (India/USA), Emerging Leaders Fellow (Australia), DAAD Fellow (Germany), ICE-WaRM Fellow (Australia)

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

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Broad Research Areas: Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Engineering, Watershed development. Specific Research Interests: Hydroclimatic Teleconnection: Large Scale Coupled Circulation Patterns and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR), Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Approaches. Modelling for Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Effect of climate change on hydrology and water resources, Hydrological Systems in a Changing Environment, Bias correction and downscaling. Analysis of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Spatio-temporal change in rainfall extremes, Analysis and hydroclimatic modeling of droughts, Probable Maximum Precipitation. Sea Level Rise: Hydroclimatic modelling of local Sea Level Rise, Coastal vulnerability and future impacts. Statistical Methods: Time series analysis and forecasting, Copula theory in hydroclimatic analysis, Graphical Modelling, Probabilistic prediction and uncertainty quantification. Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology: Application of remote sensing for soil moisture assessment. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Optimizer, Deep Learning (DL) etc. in hydroclimatology.

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