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Subimal Ghosh
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Research Group 
 

Post Doctoral Fellows

  1. Ram Ratan Lohiya: 2017 - 2019: Indian Monsoon and Extremes

  2. Rishma C: 2018 - 2019: Agricultural Water management 

  3. Soumyashree Dixit: 2022 - Ongoing: Agricultural Water management

  4. Aniket Navalkar: 2023 - Ongoing: Mumbai flood forecasting, risk and resilience

  5. Siddhesh Tirodkar: 2022 - 2023: Mumbai flood forecasting

  6. Sanghita Basu: 2023 - Ongoing: Extreme urban rain forecasting

  7. Mayank Gupta: 2023 - Ongoing: Urban Meteorology

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Doctoral Students 

  1. S Kannan: Completed in 2013: Topic: Statistical Downscaling for Fine Resolution Rainfall Projections and Assessing Uncertainty, Best Thesis Award, Now: Senior Manager at IBM India Pvt. Limited

  2. Kamal Murari: Completed in 2015, co-supervised by Prof. Edoardo Daly (Monash University): An assessment of climate variability and climate change on heat wave characteristics in India: Now: Faculty Member at Tata Institute of Social Science

  3. Kaustubh Salvi: Completed in 2015: Fine Resolution Projections of Climate Variables and Meteorological Extremes, Best Thesis Award, Now: Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Alabama

  4. K Shashikanth: Completed in 2016: Statistical Downscaling and Assessing Uncertainty for Regional Projections of Indian Monsoon, Now: Faculty Member at Osmania University, Hyderabad

  5. Amey Pathak: Completed in 2017: Co-supervised by Prof. Praveen Kumar (External Supervisor from UIUC): Role of Precipitation Recycling and Moisture Transport during Summer Monsoon over Indian sub-continent: Now: Faculty Member at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  6. Hiteshri Shastri: Completed in 2017: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co-Supervisor), Urbanization Signature in Climate: Characteristics, Forecasting and Projections, Now: Faculty Member at Charotar Institute of Science and Technology, Baroda, India

  7. Sahana A S: Completed in 2018: Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and its Onset: An Improved Prediction with Moisture Transport, Excellence in Thesis Award, Now at Gallagher Re, India

  8. Supantha Paul: Completed in 2018: Prof. Y S Rao (Co- Supervisor):Role of Land Atmosphere Interactions in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall, Excellence in Thesis Award, Present Position: Faculty member at the Tripura Institute of Technology

  9. Swati Singh: Completed in 2019: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co-Supervisor): Evaluating Dynamic Regional Models for Simulations of Indian Monsoon and their Improvements, Now at IPSL, France

  10. Anamitra Saha: Completed in 2020: Prof. E P Rao (Co- Supervisor): Evaluating State of Art Climate Models and Use of their Simulations for Hydrologic Impacts Assessment, Completed in 2020, Now at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (Postdoctoral fellow)

  11. Anjana Devanand: Completed in 2020: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co- Supervisor), Feedback from Human-Natural Land Processes to the Indian Summer Monsoon: Now at CSIRO, Australia

  12. Dawn Emil Sebastian: Ongoing, Prof. Jagdish Krishnaswami (External Supervisor from ATREE, Bangalore): Dynamic Vegetation Characteristics in Indian Forests and their feedback to the Hydrologic Processes

  13. Jisha Joseph: Completed 2022: Dr A K Sahai (External Supervisor from IITM, Pune): Uncertainty Estimation in Indian Monsoon Simulations, Now in PiK, Postdam (Post Doctoral Fellow)

  14. Rishi Sahastrabuddhe: Completed in 2022: Improved Monsoon Simulations with Physics Guided Data Driven Model: Now in Northeastern University, Boston (Post Dotoral Fellow)

  15. Shrabani Tripathy: Completed in 2022, Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co-Supervisor), Real-time Flood Rish Forecasting and Evacuation, Now at University of Alabama (Postdoctoral Fellow)

  16. Ankur Srivastava: Completed in 2022, External (External Supervisor: Dr Surya ChChandra Rao, IITM, Pune), Impacts of Runoff to Ocean on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall, Now at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

  17. Mayank Gupta: Completed in 2024, Observation and Modeling of Land Surface Energy Balance and Associated Networks, Now at IIT Bombay (Postdoctoral Fellow)

  18. Adrija Roy: Completed in 2023, Farm Scale Irrigation Water Management Utilizing Weather Forecasts and Extended Range Predictions, Now at University of Alabama

  19. Sachin Budakoti: Ongoing, Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co- Supervisor), Feedback from dynamic vegetation to Indian summer monsoon

  20. Ripan Das: Ongoing, Subhankar Karmakar (Co- Supervisor), Meteorological drivers of changing vegetation carbon uptake

  21. Aditi Modi: Ongoing: (External Supervisor: Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, IITM Pune): Revealing the colors of the Indian Ocean: Filling Gaps in Ocean Color Data and Quantifying Climate Change Impact on Marine Primary Productivity

  22. Tejasvi Chauhan: Completed in 2024, Causal Discovery in Hydrometeorology: Local to Global Processes, Now at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Postdoctoral Fellow)

  23. Vikram Chandel: Completed in 2025, Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co- Supervisor),Data-driven Regional Climate Modeling with Preserved Climate Dynamics

  24. Leena Khadke: Completed in 2025: Dr. Sandipan Mukherjee (External Co-supervisor, MoEFCC): Hydrometeorological Drivers of Carbon Uptake Variability and Wildfire Dynamics in  the Himalayan Ecosystems, Now at UNSW, Australia (Postdoctoral fellow) 

  25. Nivedita Dubey: Completed in 2025: Terrestrial Vegetation productivity in India in a Changing Climate, Now at Washington State University, Pullman (Postdoctoral Fellow)

  26. Elizabeth Eldhose: Completed in 2025: Robust Causal Inference in Eco-Hydro-Climatology: Detecting Spurious Links and Multivariate Interactions, Now at Northeastern University, USA (Postdoctoral fellow)

  27. Akash Verma: Completed in 2025: Interconnected Carbon and Water Cycle in the Terrestrial Ecosystem, Now at Imperial College, London (Postdoctoral fellow)

  28. Ruparati Chakraborti: Completed in 2025: Sustainable Agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: A Food-Water Nexus Perspective

  29. S Anoop: Completed in 2025: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Co-Supervisor): Soil-Plant-Water Dynamics in the Seasonal Monsoon Climate of India

  30. Ajinkya Khandare: Ongoing: Prof. K Lanka (co-supervisor) Vegetation-atmosphere interactions 

  31. Praveen Mutyala: Ongoing: Local scale interactions between water and carbon cycle

  32. Puja Tripathy: Ongoing: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar  and Prof. Raghu Murtugudde (Co-Supervisor): Urban flood forecasting

  33. Usman Hyder Pattoo: Ongoing: Prof. Chetan Arora (Monash University, co-supervisor): Downscaling soil moisture at farm scale incorporating human behavior

  34. Ganesh Gupta: Ongoing: Sustainable and weather-smart Agricultural advisory

  35. Atharva Milind Dhabab: Ongoing (Prof. Jaideep Joshi, co-supervisor): Microclimate and Himalayan Grassland

  36. Rupam Yadav: Ongoing: TBD

  37. Aditi Mishra: Ongoing (Prof. Suyash Bire, co-supervisor): TBD

  38. Vittal H (co-supervised): Completed in 2017, Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Main- Supervisor), Understanding the Spatio- temporal Variation and Mapping the Risk to Hydro- climatic Extremes: An Insight into Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall, Now: Faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad

  39. Sumeet Kulkarni (Co-supervised): Completed in 2017: Prof. M C Deo (Main- Supervisor), Climate Change Impact on Offshore Wind Characteristics and Wind Potential in India, Now at Gallagher Re, UK

  40. Narendra Hengade (Co-supervised): Completed in 2018: Prof. T I Eldho (Main- Supervisor), Assessment of Land Use Land Cover and Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources in Godavari River Basin, India: Present Position: MD at WetInfra

  41. Nitin Patil (Co-supervised): Completed in 2018: Prof. Chandra Venkataram an (Main- Supervisor): Aerosol influence on rainfall processes in the Indian region: Now at Hewlett- Packard, India

  42. Tarul Sharma (Co-supervised): Completed in 2019: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Main- Supervisor): Uncertainty modeling in agricultural impacts assessment of climate change: Now: Research fellow at IWMI

  43. Jayasankar Pillai (co-supervised): Completed in 2020: Prof. T I Eldho (Main- Supervisor): Evaluating Oceanic reanalysis based on regional characteristics of Indian Ocean

  44. Rakesh Kumar Sinha (Co-supervised): Completed in 2020: Prof. T I Eldho (Main supervisor), Climate Change Impacts assessment on River Basins of the Western Ghats

  45. Pratiman Patel (co-supervised): Completed in 2021: Prof. Subhankar Karmakar (Main- Supervisor): Improving Urban Weather Forecast with WRF: Now at NUS, Singapore

  46. Thiruvengadam P (co-supervised): Completed in 2023: Prof. J Indu (Main- Supervisor): Improving weather forecast with 3DVAR and 4DVAR Radar Data Assimilation

  47. Roshan Jha (co-supervsied): Completed in 2025: Prof. Arpita Mondal (co-supervisor): Heatwaves in India in a Changing Climate: the Role of Atmospheric Dynamics and Land-atmosphere Interactions

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M Tech Students 

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  1. MS in Statistics: Monika Arora: Completed in 2009: Regionalization of Summer Monsoon in India

  2. M Tech: Munir Ahmad Nayak: Completed in 2009: Weather Pattern Recognition towards an improved forecast for extremes

  3. M Tech: Sudhir Katkar: Completed in 2010: Modeling Downscaling Uncertainty for Climate Change Impacts Assessment

  4. M Tech: Ankita Agarwal: Completed in 2013: Improving Weather Forecasts with Statistical Downscaling

  5. M Tech: Dawn Emil Sebastian: Completed in 2015: Atmospheric Water Budget over South Asia

  6. M Tech: Sundar Niroula: Completed in 2016: Hydrologic Simulations of Large River Basin: Impacts of Initial Condition

  7. M Tech: Vikram Chandel: Completed in 2018: Representation of Glacier Melt in Hydrologic Models: 2018

  8. M Tech: C Sankeerthana: Completed in 2020: System Dynamics Approach for Understand Human-Natural Hydrologic System

  9. M Tech: Saroosh Alam: Completed in 2021: Extreme Precipitation and Streamflow scaling to increased Temperature

  10. M Tech: Deepak Dhadich: Completed in 2022: Agricultural Expansion and LULC Changes

  11. M Tech: Aman Singh: Completed in 2022: Understanding Global Teleconnection between regional monsoons using causal analysis

  12. M Tech: Sautrik Chaudhuri: Completed 2023: Nowcasting and Forecasting of Mumbai Extreme Rain with AI/ ML

  13. M Tech: Manish Kumar: Completed in 2023: Complex Network to understand patterns of Indian rainfall extremes

  14. M Tech: Anustup Biswas: Completed in 2025: AI ML approach for S2S predictions of Indian Monsoon

  15. M tech: Rozee Shah: Completed in 2025: Data Science for Improving decadal Predictability

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