• About Me

    Dr. K.P. Sudheer is the Ex Officio Principal Secretary, Science & Technology Department, Executive Vice President of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) and a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000, his M.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1994, and his B.Tech in Agricultural Engineering from Kerala Agricultural University in 1991.

    His research interests include hydrologic modelling, stochastic hydrology, hydrological forecasting, predictions in ungauged basins, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, irrigation water management, and the application of artificial neural networks (ANN) and fuzzy systems to hydrology and water resources. He is particularly focused on knowledge extraction from, and knowledge embedding in, soft computing-based models, contributing significantly to the advancement of data-driven techniques in water resources engineering.

    Dr. Sudheer has held various academic and research positions throughout his career. He has been serving as an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University, USA, since 2015. At IIT Madras, he has held roles as Professor (2013–present), Associate Professor (2009–2013), and Assistant Professor (2003–2009). He was also a Visiting Faculty at IIT Kanpur in 2003 and worked as a Scientist at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, from 1996 to 2002. Additionally, he served as an International Faculty in the Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology program at the University of Algarve, Portugal (2011), and as a Visiting Research Scientist at Purdue University, USA (2012).

  • Publications

    • PS Smitha, K Maya, KP Sudheer, VM Bindhu, K Sreelash, D Padmalal(2025). Assessment of surface area changes of open water bodies in wetlands using a new water index https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95606-2.00011-5
    • S Nizar, J Thomas, PJ Jainet, KP Sudheer(2025). A novel technique for nowcasting extreme rainfall events using early microphysical signatures of cloud development. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000497
    • Jobin Thomas, AN Rohith, Dawn Emil Sebastian, Sinan Nizar, PJ Jainet, Vamsi Krishna Vema, KP Sudheer, 2025. Climate warming modifies hydrological responses in the southern Western Ghats and the western coastal plains (India): Insights from CMIP6-VIC simulations. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125252

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  • Professional Experiences

    2015 – present Adjunct Professor, Purdue University, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    2013 – present Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
    2012 – 2012 Visiting Research Scientist, Purdue University, USA
    2011 – 2011 International Faculty, Erasmus Mundus, Ecohydrology, University Algarve, Faro, Portugal
    2009 – 2013 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
    2003 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
    2003 – 2003 Visiting Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
    1996 – 2002 Scientist, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

  • Research Interests

    • Hydrologic Modelling, Stochastic Hydrology, Hydrological forecasting
    • Predictions in Ungauged Basins, Uncertainty Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis
    • Irrigation Water Management
    • Application of ANN and Fuzzy systems to Hydrology and Water Resources
    • Knowledge Extraction from and Knowledge Embedding in Soft Computing based Models

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