Additional Responsibilities:

• Member of the CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Working Group, where I chair the extreme weather subgroup
• Co-director of the Hub for Applied Weather and Climate at Reading
• Associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation

Research Interests:

• Tropical dynamics
• Machine learning applications in meteorology
• Extreme weather events, particularly over south Asia
• Hydrology of India
• Weather-driven renewable energy and electricity demand

Current Research Project:

• MITRE: Using explainable artifical intelligence to better understand and predict natural hazards over India

Previous Research Projects:

• BITMAP: Better understanding of Interregional Teleconnections for prediction in the Monsoon And Poles (funded by the Belmont Forum)
• INCOMPASS: Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (funded by NERC)
• IMPROVE: Indian Monsoon PRecipitation over Orography: Verification and Enhancement of understanding (funded jointly by the UK Met Office and the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences)

Former graduate students

• Akshay Deoras (graduated 2022), whose PhD investigated seasonal and subseasonal forecasts of monsoon low pressure systems.
• Nischal Sharma (graduated 2025), based at IISER Mohali. Lead supervisor was Raju Attada. Her project explored drivers of extreme precipitation over the Western Himalaya.

Current graduate students

• Priya Bharati (started 2020), based at IIT Kharagpur. Lead supervisor is Pranab Deb. Her project is looking at climate change and variability over the Hindu Kush-Karakoram Himalaya.
• Karan Ruparell (2023), based at the University of Reading. I am the lead supervisor, with co-supervisors Hannah Cloke, Christel Prudhomme (ECMWF), and Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF). His project title is "Improving river streamflow forecasts using deep learning techniques".
• Indrakshi Mukherjee (2023), based at the University of Reading. Lead supervisor is Andy Turner; I am a co-supervisor along with Ambrogio Volonte and Robert Lee. Her project title is "Understanding the potential for month-ahead prediction for monsoon systems".
• Mehzooz Nizar (2024), based at the University of Reading. Lead supervisor is Reinhard Schiemann, with me, Andy Turner, and Steffen Tietsche (ECMWF) as co-supervisors. His project title is "How skilful are AI-based forecasts of monsoon weather?".
• Matthew Calladine (2024), based at Newcastle University. Lead supervisor is Hannah Bloomfield; I am a co-supervisor along with David Greenwood (Newcastle) and Haider Ali (Newcastle). His project title is "The impacts of climate variability and climate change on the Indian power system".