Ramesh Teegavarapu

Ramesh Teegavarapu is a Professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He founded and leads the Hydrosystems Research Laboratory (HRL) and is affiliated with the Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI) and the Center for Water Resiliency and Risk Reduction (CWR3). As a Fulbright Scholar and Specialist, he has held visiting professorships at Kobe University (Japan), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy).

• Education: Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Canada.

His research focuses on climate change impacts on hydrometeorological systems, statistical hydrology, machine learning for water resources modeling, precipitation analysis, and geostatistical methods. He has developed software tools like RAIN, BAT, CHSET, and QA for data quality assessment and modeling.

Scientific Awards:

• Fulbright Scholar & Specialist
• World’s Top 2% Scientist (Elsevier & Stanford, 2020–2024)
• Scholar of the Year (FAU, 2017 & 2021)
• Engineers’ Council Distinguished Engineering Educator Award (2021)
• ASCE-EWRI Task Committee Excellence Award

Dr. Teegavarapu has taught over 210 research talks and chaired 120+ technical sessions globally. His work is funded by agencies like NSF, FEMA, USGS, and USACE, with $6M+ in research grants since 2006. He serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Journal of Hydroinformatics and is Vice-Chair of IAHR’s Climate Change Adaptation Committee.