Rajagopalan Balaji
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering • PhD Utah State University 1995
CEAE

Specialty

Stochastic hydrology, nonparametric estimation techniques, climate variability and regional hydrology, use of climate information in decision making.

Research Interests

My main research program is a diverse and interdisciplinary effort to enable sustainable water quantity and quality for the growing populations under increasing climate variability and change. This entails three interconnected themes: (i) Understanding the large-scale climate drivers of year-to-year and multidecadal variability and predictability of regional hydroclimatology and their extremes, (ii) Developing ensemble hydroclimate projection tools with large-scale climate information and, (iii) Coupling the projections with resources management and decision support system. In addition, I have keen interests in paleo and contemporary variability of Indian monsoon, big-data analysis and modeling techniques, water and wastewater quality, construction safety and building energy efficiency.