Auroop R. Ganguly

Education

• Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2002
• M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 1997
• B.Tech., Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1993

Honors & Awards

Ganguly has published in interdisciplinary journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, PLOS One, Nature’s Scientific Reports, won best paper awards in highly selective machine learning or AI conferences such as ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD) and SIAM Data Mining (SDM), best poster awards at AGU (American Geophysical Union) and AMS (American Meteorological Society) meetings, published a textbook on Critical Infrastructures Resilience and an edited book on Knowledge Diacovery from Sensor Data, produced papers in top disciplinary journals spanning areas such as geosciences, infrastructures, climate, water, information theory and data science, developed US patents in climate risks and infrastructures resilience, and co-founded a climate analytics startup. Prior to his role as a professor at Northeastern University, Ganguly was a senior scientist at US DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the computational science and engineering division, where he helped define their knowledge discovery theme and won several awards for significant research contributions and outstanding mentorship. He has led or co-led funded research projects worth about ~$30 Million in his independent research career. Before Northeastern and ORNL, Ganguly was the product manager of Demand Planning at Oracle Corporation, and a senior product manager of Analytics and Strategy at Demantra Inc., which in turn was subsequently acquired by Oracle. Ganguly considers his biggest accomplishment to be the success of his current and former students, postdocs and visiting professors, who range from scientists at federal agencies and national laboratories like NASA and ORNL, leaders in the private industry including the CEO of a successful startup, as well as successful and award-winning global academics at places like the Indian Institute of Technology campuses.

NSF News & Highlights

• 2016: Nature & Nature Climate Change papers
• 2015: Nature Paper: climate change & coastal upwelling
• 2014: Climate change research goes to the extremes
• 2012: ScienceLives Interview
• 2012: NSF Newsletter (pg. 3: “Faces of NSF Research”)
• 2011: Nature Climate Change: Indian rainfall extremes

Teaching Interests

• CIVE 3464 (Undergraduate): Probability and Engineering Economy for Engineers (Spring, Fall)
• CIVE 5363 (Undergraduate/Graduate): Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy (Spring, Fall)
• CIVE 7100 (Graduate): Applied Time Series and Spatial Statistics (Spring)
• CIVE 7110 (Graduate): Critical Infrastructure Resilience (Fall)
• CIVE 4777 & CIVE 4778 (Undergraduate): Climate Change Science and Policy Abroad (Summer)

Leadership Positions

Appointments: Private Industry and Government

• (Joint) Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 2020-Now
• Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Adviser, risQ Corp., Cambridge, MA, 2016-Now
• Senior Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 2004-2011
• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, AnalyticsSmart Inc., Tampa, FL, 2003-2004
• Senior Product Manager, Demantra Inc., (Acquired by Oracle) Waltham, MA, 2003
• Product Manager of Demand Planning, Burlington, MA, and Time Series Software Developer, Nashua, NH, Oracle Corporation, 1998-2003

Appointments: US Academia

• Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2011-Now
• Joint Faculty (with ORNL), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006-2011
• Visiting Faculty, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2003-2004

Appointments: Indian Academia

• Guest Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, 2021-Now
• International Visiting Professor, Computer Science and Environmental Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2018-2021
• Visiting Professor, Interdisciplinary Program on Climate, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2013-2015

Professional Affiliations

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Selected Research Projects

• Suite of “Experiential PhD” projects (NASA, ORNL, PNNL, risQ, others): The SDS Lab provides a relativelty unique opportunity to PhD students and postdoctoral associates to work closely with our collaborators (including SDS Lab alums) at NASA Ames, US DOE Labs such as ORNL and PNNL, as well as the private sector including startups such as the SDS Lab spinout risQ. The SDS Lab students or postdocs on these experiential projects often end up spending substantial time on-site at the federal agencies (e.g., NASA), national labs (e.g., ORNL and PNNL), and the private sector (e.g., risQ) and are usually also funded by them at Northeastern. The students and postdocs have often been absorbed into these or related organizations post-graduation depending on interests.
• CRISP Type 2: Interdependent Network-based Quantification of Infrastructure Resilience (INQUIRE)
  Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
• CyberSEES: Type 2: SEA-MASCOT: Spatio-temporal Extremes and Associations : Marine Adaptation and Survivorship under Changes in extreme Ocean Temperatures
  Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
• NICE: Networked Infrastructures under Compound Extremes
  Principal Investigator, Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program
• Multigraph Theeory for National Critical Functions
  Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Homeland Security (via joint Chief Scientist role at US DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Research Centers and Institutes

NSF Expeditions in Computing (graduated)

Northeastern Global Resilience Institute

Department Research Areas

• Civil Infrastructure Security
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Health
• Sustainable Resource Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Water, Environmental, and Coastal Systems