New Faculty Spotlight: Auroop R. Ganguly
Auroop R. Ganguly joined the Department as an Associate Professor after seven years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, most recently as a Senior R&D Staff in their Computational Sciences and Engineering division, as well as a joint faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He was previously employed in the private sector at Oracle Corporation as their product manager of demand planning and a time series software developer, as a senior product manager at a best-of-breed company which was eventually acquired by Oracle and briefly as a visiting faculty at the University of South Florida. His research interests are along two primary themes: climate extremes and water sustainability, as well as data sciences for complex systems. He is widely published, and his research on climate and water has been highlighted in journals like Nature and Nature Climate Change. Prof. Ganguly is an Associate Editor of the Water Resources Research published by the American Geophysical Union, the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering published in ASCE, and a member of Artificial Intelligence Committee of the American Meteorological Society. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2002, an M.S. from the University of Toledo in 1997, and a B. Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in 1993, all in Civil and Environmental Engineering.