Tirthankar Roy

Professional Preparation

PostDoc: 2017-2019, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA

Mentors: Eric Wood

PhD: 2013-2017, Hydrology (Minor in Civil Engineering), University of Arizona, USA

Mentors: Hoshin Gupta, Juan Valdes, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila

MTech: 2010-2012, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

DAAD Scholar: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Mentors: Niels Schütze

BTech: 2006-2010, Agricultural Engineering, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India

Certificates

Teaching Transcript: 2019, Pedagogy Training and Formal Teaching Experience, Princeton University, USA

Academic Experience

Associate Professor: 2025-present, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Assistant Professor: 2019-2025, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Postdoctoral Research Associate: 2017-2019, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA
Assistant-in-Instruction: 2019, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA
Project Associate: 2012-2013, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Awards & Honors

Fellow: National Strategic Research Institute, University of Nebraska, 2026
Faculty Distinguished Research Award: UNL College of Engineering, 2026
CAREER Award: National Science Foundation, 2025-2030
Fellow: Nebraska Transportation Center, 2025-present
Jim Dooge Award: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (co-author), 2024
Best Case Study Award: ASCE-EWRI (co-author), 2023
Research Excellence Award: UNL College of Engineering, 2022
Teaching Excellence Recognition: UNL College of Engineering, 2022
Hubbard Fellowship: Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, 2021
Faculty Fellow: Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, 2020-present
Research Development Fellow: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020-2021
Service Award: Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences Student Association President, University of Arizona, 2017
Graduate Research Assistantship: University of Arizona, 2013-2017
Best Poster Award: First Position (co-author), WRRC Annual Conference, Tucson, 2017
Best Poster Award: Second Position (lead author), WRRC Annual Conference, Tucson, 2016
Galileo Circle Scholarship: University of Arizona College of Science, 2016
Delegate: from University of Arizona at One Young World Environment Summit, 2016
Travel Grant: $500, University of Arizona Institute of the Environment, 2015
Travel Grant: $490, University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council, 2015
Invited Member: Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2015
Graduate College Fellowship: University of Arizona, 2014
University Gold Medal: for highest undergraduate GPA, 2013
Smt. Shishubala Memorial Gold Medal: for highest undergraduate GPA, 2013
Certificate of Merit: for highest undergraduate GPA, 2013
DAAD Scholarship: TU Dresden, Germany, 2011-2012
Teaching Assistantship: Government of India MHRD, 2010-2011
National Rank 40: GATE Exam in Agricultural Engineering, 2010
University Merit Scholarship: undergraduate program, 2006-2010
Certificate of Merit: National Merit Scholarship for 2003 West Bengal Secondary Exam, 2006
State Rank 33: 2003 West Bengal Secondary Exam, 2003

Service Roles

Member, Risk, Uncertainty, and Probabilistic Approaches Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025-present
Member, Program Coordination Committee, Innovation Lab for Irrigation and Mechanization Systems, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska, 2024-2025
Member, Communications and Outreach Committee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023-present
Member, Graduate Committee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021-present
Member, Technical Committee on Uncertainty Analysis, American Geophysical Union, 2020-present
Member, Committee on Committees, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020-2023
Member, Honors and Awards Committee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019-2023
Member, Early Career Committee, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2018-2022
Member, Postdoctoral Council, Princeton University, 2018-2019
President, Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences Student Association, University of Arizona, 2016-2017
Vice President, Hydrology & Water Resources Student Association, University of Arizona, 2014-2015

Synergistic Activities

Co-author: Nebraska State Climate Report, 2024-2025
Convener: Sessions titled: Critical Zone Response and Resilience to Wildfires, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 2025
Organizing Committee Member: HydroML Symposium, Pacific Northwest National Lab, 2024
Convener: Two sessions titled: Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Testing of Earth and Environmental Models, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2023
Organizing Committee Member: HydroML Symposium, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2023
Planning Committee Member: Nebraska Water Center Conference, 2023
Member: President's Sustainability Council, University of Nebraska, 2022-2023
Convener: Two sessions titled: Catchment and Critical Zone Science – Understanding Ecosystems Through Monitoring, Analysis, and Experimentation, AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, 2022
Organizing Committee Member: NSF-funded HydroML Symposium, Penn State, 2022
Convener: Workshop titled: How to write a proposal in Hydrology, IAHS Scientific Assembly, Montpellier, France, 2022
Primary Convener: Workshop titled: Applications of satellite remote sensing in hydrological assessments, IAHS Scientific Assembly, Montpellier, France, 2022
Primary Convener & Chair: Three sessions titled: Machine Learning Applications in Catchment Hydrology, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 2021
Primary Convener & Chair: Two sessions titled: Novel hypotheses to advance hydrological process understanding at the catchment scale, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2020
Primary Convener & Chair: Three sessions titled: Advancing hydrologic process understanding across scales using new datasets and methods, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2019
Acting Convener: Session titled: Drought: Dynamics, Impacts, Resilience, and Adaptation III, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2019
Co-Convener: Workshop titled: Science Communication, 27th International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, Montreal, 2019
Co-Convener: Workshop titled: Using R in Hydrology, 27th International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, Montreal, 2019
Primary Convener & Chair: Session titled: Role of new datasets and analysis methods to advance hydrological process understanding at catchment scale, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2018
Organizing Committee Member: EarthWeek Research Symposium, University of Arizona, 2017
Organizing Committee Member: Arizona Hydrological Society Annual Symposium, 2016
Co-chair: EarthWeek Research Symposium, University of Arizona, 2015

Invited Presentations

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Invited panelist in town hall titled, Epic Fails and Bumpy Trails: Owning and Learning from the Messy Side of Geoscience, 2025/12
MIT Media Lab: Integrated Risk Mapping of Hydroclimatic Disasters, 2024/12
EPA Exploring Regenerative Agriculture Workshop: Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Conservation Practices: Challenges and Opportunities, 2024/05
Nebraska Water Center Conference: Convergent research towards building flood resilience in Nebraska, 2023/10
Iowa State University: Droughts and Precipitation Recycling (Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Fall 2021 Seminar Series), 2021/10
American Meteorological Society Committee on Hydrology: Streamflow Monitoring and Forecasting in Pilot Basins of Africa, 2020/05
University of Waterloo: Precipitation recycling and droughts (Guest Lecture in Modern Computational Approaches to Human-Natural Systems Modelling), 2020/03
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Precipitation recycling within the context of droughts (Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar Series), 2020/03
Earth from Space Institute: Invited panelist in session, Understanding the relationship between extreme precipitation and flood risk, 2019/10
Purdue University: Streamflow forecasting in poorly gauged basins using satellite products (Civil Engineering Hydraulics/Hydrology Seminar), 2019/02
University of Arizona: The MMSF Platform, 2017/02
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: Probabilistic real-time streamflow forecasting in sparsely-gauged African basins, 2016/07
University of Arizona: A benchmark approach for real-time streamflow monitoring and forecasting (GPSC Grant Winner Expo poster), 2015/10

Editorial Work

Hydrological Processes: Associate Editor, 2026-present
Frontiers in Water: Guest Associate Editor, 2022-2025
Hydrology: Editorial Board Member, 2020-present

Peer-Review Work

Proposals

National Science Foundation
Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Geological Survey 104B
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute

Journals

Science
Nature Climate Change
Water Resources Research
Journal of Hydrology
Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences
Geophysical Research Letters
Environmental Research Letter
Geoscientific Model Development
Scientific Reports
Hydrological Processes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Climate Dynamics
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Journal of Earth System Science
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
Journal of Hydro-environment Research
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Soil Science Society of America Journal
Water
Catena
Hydrology Research
International Journal of River Basin Management
International Journal of Sediment Research

Reports

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Professional Memberships

Past & Current

American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
European Geosciences Union
Arizona Hydrological Society
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Served as Judge

UNL Outstanding GRA Award: 2025, 2026
UNL Student Research Days: 2025
AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Presentation Award: 2023, 2019, 2018
UNL Summer Research Symposium: 2022
UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium: 2022, 2021, 2020
UNL College of Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award: 2020
University of Arizona Montgomery Prize at El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera: 2020
University of Arizona Travel Grant Competition, Graduate and Professional Student Council: 2015
University of Arizona Undergraduate Poster Competition in EarthWeek Research Symposium (El Día): 2015

Volunteering and/or Outreach

College of Engineering Recruitment Open House, 2025
Co-organized stakeholder workshop under the NDEE project, 2025
Scientific demonstration of hydrological cycle to high schoolers, 2024
Scientific demonstration to middle schoolers at Discover Engineering Days: 2023, 2024
Scientific demonstration at Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on behalf of UNL Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2020
Reviewer, Resume Review Event, UNL STEM Career Fair, 2019
Represented Civil and Environmental Engineering in Faculty/Staff Experience Engineering panel, 2019
Volunteer, Nebraska Undergraduates Becoming Engineers (NUBE) event, College of Engineering, UNL, 2019
One Young World Environment Summit, University of Arizona, 2016
Departmental 50th Anniversary Alumni Reunion, University of Arizona, 2016
Scientific demonstration in Biosphere 2 What If series, 2015
Scientific demonstration at Science City, Tucson Festival of Books, 2015
Participant, All-India Inter-Agricultural Universities Youth Festival, 2007