Auroop Ratan Ganguly is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University's College of Engineering , with affiliate appointments in the Khoury College of Computer Science and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He serves as Director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences (SDS) Laboratory and Co-Director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern, while holding a joint appointment as Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT (2002) MS in Civil Engineering, University of Toledo (1997) B.Tech (Hons.) in Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (1993) His research bridges Climate Extremes & Water Sustainability with Infrastructure Resilience and Hybrid Physics-AI Systems . Key contributions include novel methods for climate extremes under global warming, network science applications to infrastructure resilience, and physics-integrated machine learning for weather and hydrology. His work has been cited in UN and US National Climate Assessments, with media coverage in New York Times , Nature , and AGU publications. Recent articles focus on AI for Climate Risk (2025), Nonlinear Dynamics (2025), and Carbon Cycle Extremes (2025). His lab develops Explainable AI tools for climate adaptation and environmental justice. Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers Distinguished Member, ACM (2023) Outstanding Mentoring Awards, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Best Paper Awards, SIAM Data Mining (2011) and IEEE (2017) As an advisor, he has mentored PhD students like Evan Kodra and Kate Duffy , who co-founded climate startups including risQ (acquired by ICE/NYSE) and Zeus AI . His leadership roles include co-chairing NCAR's Societal Dimensions Working Group and serving on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Water .













