Associate Professor
Departments of Civil Engineering & Climate Change
IIT Hyderabad
In brief, after masters at the IIT Kanpur, I pursued PhD at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Later, I worked with a group of scientists at the National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA, Washington DC. Then, had a short stint with the World Bank and Johns Hopkins university before joining the Civil Engineering department at the IIT Hyderabad in Feb 2017. Over the last few years, I involved in flood/seasonal water supply forecasting, climate and statistics as well as both in research- and real-time environments. I interacted with research scientists, policy makers and operational forecasters of both data-rich and data-poor regions.
NOAA / NWS 2006–2013 Silver Spring, Maryland
Research Hydrologist, Office of Hydrologic Development
2006 to 2013World Bank 2014–2016 Washington, DC
Hydroclimate Consultant
2014 to 2016Johns Hopkins University 2015–2016 Baltimore, Maryland
Associate Research Scientist, Earth and Planetary Sciences
2015 to 2016IIT Hyderabad 2017–now
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
2017 to the present'Urban Flooding' has been getting much attention off late, and it will be an issue for many countries including India posing a wide variety of challenges for a variety of reasons. We, at the IIT Hyderabad, are working to address the issue. As part of our systematic approach, we came up with SnapFlood and Sixer Tweet. We are trying to address the global issues with local efforts, and if you want to be part of it reach us.
Riverine flood modelling and streamflow forecasting for the Brahmaputra, Godavari and Narmada river basins, under the Monsoon Mission, using hydrologic, hydrodynamic and statistical-dynamical approaches.
Rainfall forecasting, and the space-time behaviour of rainfall and climate extremes over Indian cities and river basins. Both physics-based and AI/ML techniques are explored.
Hydrologic database development in India, citizen science and crowdsourced observation, and the products and decision-support tools built on them.
Products and tools from the group that puts rainfall and flood information in the hands of the people who need it: a citizen reporting app, analytics for rainfall and river data, and apps for forecasters and researchers.
Photograph a flooded street, upload it with a location, and it joins an archive of where water actually stood — in any city on earth. It began as the VarshaMitra campaign in 2023 and became an app.
Extract, analyse and visualise rainfall data for any period and any region in India.
Diagnostics and statistical post-processing for streamflow forecasts — the ensemble methods from the NOAA years, in a browser.
Climate extremes for the Serayu and Krishna river basins, from the Asia-Pacific Network project with Jenderal Soedirman University in Java. Code by T. S. S. S. Prasad.
How much water will Indian cities and rivers see, and how soon can we tell anyone?
RAFT expands to Rainfall-runoff Analysis and Forecasting Tools. The group collects, models and forecasts rainfall and runoff for Indian cities and river basins.
RAFT keeps its own site at raftwaters.com, and posts from the accounts below.
Accepting PhD applicants for the January 2027 intake.
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