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Ph.D. Candidate

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Dissertation: Regulated Surface Water: How Much and Where is it Flowing
• Research
  • Bulding on the RAT framework, I developed the ResORR (Reservoir Operations-driven River Regulation) framework to model the regulation of streamflow by dams and reservoirs. Related paper.
  • I also developed a forecasting module for RAT to predict the future state (inflow, storage, and outflow) of reservoirs, based on weather forecasts and operating scenarios. Related paper.
  • I investigated the integration of SWOT with existing satellites to improve the accuracy of surface water storage estimation of reservoirs. Related paper.

M.S.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Thesis: Reservoir Assessment Tool 2.0: Stakeholder driven Improvements to Satellite Remote Sensing based Reservoir Monitoring
• Research
  • I developed the version 2 of Reservoir Assessment Tool (RAT), significantly improving the accuracy and frequency of storage change estimates of reservoirs, and the accuracy of modeled inflow based on stakeholder feedback. Related paper.
  • I also maintained an operational decision support system for the Mekong region, RAT-Mekong. Read more about RAT-Mekong @ projects.

M.Tech.

• Department of Earth Sciences
• Thesis: Snow-cover Variability and Trend Analysis of the Indus Basin and Snow-melt Runoff Modeling of the Beas Basin

Graduate Research Assistant

SIParCS Summer Intern

• Developed interactive dashboard for visualizing global ensemble gridded predictions and compared two paradigms of building interactive dashboards.

• People's Choice Graduate Poster Presentation
• American Water Resources Association (AWRA). Renton WA, USA.

• Department Gold Medal, Department of Earth Sciences
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.

Hacker at Project Pythia Cook-Off

• Developed cookbook style guide on how to create interactive visualization of cloud hosted satellite imagery.

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.

Hacker at UW Cloud ReproHack

• Reproduced and scaled research work developed on local servers of UW to the AWS cloud platform.

Trainer at Satellite Observations and Tools for Reservoir Monitoring in relation to Enhancing Flood and Drought Management in the Mekong Region

• Trained delegates, primarily engineers and water resource managers, of member countries of the Mekong River Commission on the Reservoir Assessment Tool 2.0.

Trainer at 3rd SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon

• 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.