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Dr. K. Rajendran

Director

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Dr. K Rajendran earned his Ph.D. and Masters in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he also received the Academic Excellence award. He subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at Florida State University and was awarded the JSPS Fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, working as research scientist at the Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency. Prior to joining KSCSTE-ICCS as director in June 2024, he served as Chief Scientist at CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), Bangalore. For about two decades, Dr. Rajendran has been engaged in research and development in climate modeling, climate variability, climate change projection and climate change impact assessments, and held management roles within CSIR-4PI.

Dr. Rajendran's primary research focuses on climate modeling, with extensive involvement in multi-institutional network projects and grant-in-aid projects funded by ISRO, DST, MoES, CSIR, and the Government of Kerala. He is recognized for pioneering high-resolution climate change projections of the Indian summer monsoon and extreme events over India using high-resolution global climate model and regional climate model based dynamical downscaling.

He has contributed significantly to policy and academia, having served on the Working Group for Climate Change under the Government of Kerala, as a member of the Board of Studies at Cochin University of Science and Technology, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Earth System Science of the Indian Academy of Science. Dr. Rajendran has authored approximately 50 refereed journal articles, 6 book chapters, and several technical reports. His publications in high-impact SCI journals and their citations underscore the ongoing significance of his research.

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Dr. K. P. Sudheer

Adjunct Faculty

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 IIT 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).

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