Our Team
A diverse group working to decode the complexities of regional climate and weather extremes.
Dr. Raju Attada
Associate Professor & Principal Investigator
Research Areas
Indian Monsoons, Weather and Climate Extremes, Climate Modelling and Data Assimilation
Memberships
Graduate Students (PhD)
Athira K S
PhD Scholar
January 2021 - Present
Winter Weather Extremes, Cold waves, Arctic-midlatitude Teleconnections, WRF
Adil Muhammed I K
PhD Scholar
January 2025 - Present
Extreme Rainfall Events, Data Assimilation, WRF
Himanshu Pandey
PhD Scholar
August 2025 - Present
Extreme Events, Moisture Transport, Himalayan Climatology
Sangeeta Kumari
PhD Scholar
January 2026 - Present
Climate Change, Extreme weather events
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Singuru Madhusai
Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
May 2025 - Present
NWP, Indian Monsoons, Tropical Cyclones, Climate Modelling and Climate Variability
Junior Research Fellows
Akash Shit
JRF
August 2024 - Present
Atmospheric Convection, Extreme Events Prediction
Nikhil Hale
JRF
August 2024 - Present
Climate Modelling, Climate Extremes, Polar climate
Shiv Shankar Singh
JRF
June 2025 - Present
Climate Modelling, AI/ML
Gopika V Gopal
JRF
November 2025 - Present
Himalayan Extreme Weather Events, Climate Projections, Climate Modelling, South Asian Summer Monsoon
Masters Students
Deepak Singh
MS Student
May 2025 - Present
Spatio-temporal variability of Cloud Cover over Indian Regions
Subhendra
MS Student
Jan 2026 - Present
Prediction of air pollution levels(PM10) in arid regions particularly focusing on Arabian gulf region
Current Intern Students
Pranay Chakraborty
Intern Student
June 2025 - Present
Precipitation-Convective vs Large-Scale.
Alumni & Past Members
PhD Graduates
Dr. Nischal Sharma
PhD Scholar (2020-2025)
Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF)
Dr. Rohtash Saini
PhD Scholar (2020-2025)
Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF)Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Krishna Kumar Shukla
Post-Doc (2020-2022)
Dr. Amita Kumari
Post-Doc (2023)
Dr. Pawan Kumar Chaubey
Post-Doc (2023-2024)
Junior Research Fellows
Akash P.
JRF (2021)
Pravin Punde
JRF (2021-2022)
Debasish Mahapatra
JRF (2023)
Sreehari K
JRF (2022-2023)
Deepak P
JRF (2022-2023)
Nirvan Abhilash
JRF (2024)
Sanjeev Singh
JRF (2023-2025)
Masters Students
Malavika M
MS Student (July 2024 - June 2025)
Indian cold waves inferred from Indian highest resolution datasets
Publications
1 Submitted
Himanshu Jain
MS Student (July 2023 - June 2024)
Federated Learning on non-iid data
Ayush Kumar
MS Student (July 2023 - June 2024)
Enhancement of Data assimilation process using Neural networks
Amitabha Satyajeet Govande
MS Student (August 2022 - August 2023)
PhD, Utrecht University
Air pollution potential characteristics
Publications
Govande, A., Attada, R., Shukla, K.K. et al (2025). Analyzing and predicting ventilation coefficient over India using long-term reanalysis datasets and hybrid machine learning approach. Theor Appl Climatol, 156, 619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-025-05845-w.
Govande, A., Attada, R., & Shukla, K.K. (2025). Predicting PM2.5 levels over Indian metropolitan cities using Recurrent Neural Networks. Earth Science Informatics, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01491-4.
Bajrang C.
MS Student (August 2021 - May 2022)
PhD, University of Melbourne
Monsoonal Extreme Rainfall events
Publications
Bajrang, C., Attada, R., & Goswami, B.N. (2023). Possible factors for the recent changes in frequency of central Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation extremes during 2005–2020. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00450-y.
Meher Sanjana
MS Student
Prediction of winter rainfall
Deepanshu Aggarwal
MS Student
SBI Probationary Officer
Publications
Aggarwal, D., Chakraborty, R., & Attada, R. (2023). Investigating bi-decadal precipitation changes over the Northwest Himalayas during the pre-monsoon: Role of Pacific Decadal Oscillations. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06969-3.
Aggarwal, D., Attada, R., Shukla, K. K., Chakraborty, R., & Kunchala, R. K. (2022). Monsoon precipitation characteristics and extreme precipitation events over Northwest India using Indian high resolution regional reanalysis. Atmospheric Research, 105993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105993.
Abhishek Kumar
MS Student
MBA, IIM Udaipur
K Lakshman
M. Tech Student
PhD, National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Publications
Lakshman, K., Nadimpalli, R., Srivastava, A., Osuri, K.K., Attada, R. and Parekh, A. (2025), High-Resolution Analysis of Severe Heat Wave Dynamics and Thermal Discomfort Across India. Int J Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8753.
Intern Students
Rishikesh Katakam
Summer Intern (2025)
Neural Networks on Air Pollutants
Ksheetij Pandey
Summer Intern
ENSO and IOD Impacts
Shrirang Bhale
Summer Intern
INSAT 3D structure
Sidharth S S
Summer Intern
AI/ML for extreme rainfall
Sulekha Komeravelli
Summer Intern
Kartik Dixit
Summer Intern
Joyjit Mandal
Summer Intern
Swastik Mishra
Summer Intern
Mohamed Junaid
Summer Intern
Manjima Mahesh
MS Student
Nitu
MS Student
Ayush Kumar
MS Student
Abhirami
MS Student