Water Resources Systems : Modeling Techniques and Analysis

Prof. P P Mujumdar is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and as Chairman, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (http://icwar.iisc.ernet.in/). He has earlier served as the Chairman of the Department from November 2006 to December 2010 and as KSIIDC Chair Professor from August 2012 to July 2015. He holds Associate Faculty positions in the Divecha Center for Climate Change and Center for Earth Sciences at IISc Bangalore. His area of specialization is Water Resources with a focus on climate change impacts on hydrology/water resources, statistical downscaling of GCM outputs, urban flooding, planning and operation of large scale water resources systems, and uncertainty modeling. His recent research contributions include detection and attribution of hydrologic change, development of downscaling models, uncertainty combination in climate change impacts and reservoir operation for adaptation to climate change. He has served as the Chairman of the Water Resources Management section of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and as a reviewer for the Assessment Report 5 (AR5) of the IPCC. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK and the CSIR-NGRI-AHI Indian National Hydrology Lecture Award. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Advances in Water Resources, has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Water International, and has been a member of several state- and national- committees dealing with urban flooding, and operational and environmental aspects of water resources in India. His teaching interests include Stochastic Hydrology (NPTEL Video Course), Water Resources Systems, Surface Water Hydrology and Urban Hydrology. His areas of professional consultancy include urban storm water drainage, floodplain management, river basin planning, reservoir operations, lift irrigation, hydropower development and impact assessment of water resources projects. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.