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General Information

Full Name Pritam Das
Email pdas47[at]uwedu
Personal Email pritamd47[at]gmailcom
Location Seattle, WA, USA
Languages English, Hindi, Bengali

Education

  • 2025
    Ph.D. Candidate
    University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Dissertation: Regulated Surface Water: How Much and Where is it Flowing
  • 2022
    M.S.
    University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Thesis: Reservoir Assessment Tool 2.0: Stakeholder driven Improvements to Satellite Remote Sensing based Reservoir Monitoring
  • 2020
    M.Tech.
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India
    • Department of Earth Sciences
    • Thesis: Snow-cover Variability and Trend Analysis of the Indus Basin and Snow-melt Runoff Modeling of the Beas Basin

Experience

  • 2021 - Present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
  • 2023
    SIParCS Summer Intern
    National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder CO, USA
    • Developed interactive dashboard for visualizing global ensemble gridded predictions and compared two paradigms of building interactive dashboards.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • People's Choice Graduate Poster Presentation
    • American Water Resources Association (AWRA). Renton WA, USA.
  • 2020
    • Department Gold Medal, Department of Earth Sciences
    • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.

Trainings and Workshops

  • 2023
    Hacker at Project Pythia Cook-Off
    National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO
    • Developed cookbook style guide on how to create interactive visualization of cloud hosted satellite imagery.
  • 2022
    TA for Remote Sensing for Water Resources
    • Trained seniors and graduate students on Google Earth Engine (GEE) for cloud-computing of satellite remote-sensing data.
  • 2022
    Hacker at UW Cloud ReproHack
    eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle WA
    • Reproduced and scaled research work developed on local servers of UW to the AWS cloud platform.
  • 2022
    Trainer at Satellite Observations and Tools for Reservoir Monitoring in relation to Enhancing Flood and Drought Management in the Mekong Region
    Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), Bangkok, Thailand
    • Trained delegates, primarily engineers and water resource managers, of member countries of the Mekong River Commission on the Reservoir Assessment Tool 2.0.
  • 2022
    Trainer at 3rd SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon
    NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle WA
    • Trained early adopters of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission from the ADPC and brainstormed on how to leverage future SWOT observations to enhance existing ADPC projects.

Peer Review Activity

  • Geophysical Research Letters (1)
  • Scientific Reports (1)
  • Environmental Earth Sciences (1)
  • Journal of Open-Source Software (1)
  • Discover Applied Sciences (1)

Society Affiliations

  • Student Member at American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Student Member at American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

Skills & Interests

  • Programming Languages: Python, Bash, Google Earth Engine
  • Software: ArcGIS, QGIS, Git, Figma, Linux
  • Scientific Packages: Dask, XArray, HoloViews, NumPy, Pandas
  • Other Interests: Photography, Hiking, Volunteering