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Tirthankar Roy
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Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
School of Computing (by courtesy)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Fellow, National Strategic Research Institute
Faculty Fellow, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute
NSF CAREER Awardee
DAAD Scholarship Awardee

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Email: roy@unl.edu​

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​Research Interests

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​We are interested in the science, engineering, and social dimensions of hydrology in interdisciplinary research settings.

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Process Focus: Hydrologic processes across scales, hydrologic extremes, snow hydrology, water and agriculture, conservation practices, coupled hydro-environmental processes, water and public health, human-water interactions, water resources management, water quality. 
 

Method Focus: Machine learning, explainable AI, causal inference and discovery, statistical methods, numerical modeling, remote sensing and GIS. 


Application/Outcome Focus: Hydrologic monitoring and forecasting, stakeholder engagement, integrated risk assessment, resilience, decision support systems.

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Our Sponsors

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  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • Department of Defense (DOD)

  • Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) 

  • Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT)

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Recent Updates

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  • Shivendra Srivastava successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congrats Dr. Srivastava!

  • ​Our manuscript on rain-on-snow flooding has now been accepted in the Journal of Hydrology.

  • Sinan Rasiya Koya successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congrats Dr. Rasiya Koya!

  • Tirthankar Roy was awarded the NSF CAREER award. 

  • Sudan Pokharel successfully completed his PhD degree. Congrats Dr. Pokharel!

  • Tirthankar became a National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) Fellow.

  • Our AGU session titled, Critical Zone Response and Resilience to Wildfires is now receiving abstract. Check it out here: Link

Tirthankar Roy

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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