Professional/Administrative

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Dr. T has served as Technical Session Organizer, Member, Moderator, Convener, Facilitator and Chair for over 125 national, international conferences, workshops, technical sessions.

  •  Co-Chair, Climate Change Adaptation, December 3, 2025, 6th IAHR Young Professionals Online Congress, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2025.
  • Co-Chair, Climate Change Adaptation and Groundwater, December 3, 2025, 6th IAHR Young Professionals Online Congress, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2025.
  • Member & Panelist, International Scientific Committee, 6th IAHR Young Professionals Online Congress, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2025.
  • Co-convener, Stationarity Assessment of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Methods and Applications. Master Class. Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research  (IAHR) International Conference. Singapore,  June 22, 2025.
  • Convener, Machine Learning Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Data Quality Assessment. Workshop. Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development,  International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research  (IAHR)  International Conference. Singapore,  June 22, 2025.
  • Session Chair, Technical Session on Sediment Transport and Bathymetrical Changes. Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research  (IAHR)  International Conference, Singapore,  June 26, 2025.
  • Chair, Special Session on Emerging Issues for Water Management in Remote Regions with Interplay of Climate Change, Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors, 2025, Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development,  International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research  (IAHR) International Conference, Singapore, June 22-27, 2025.
  • Co-Convenor, Session on Emerging Issues for Water Management in Remote Regions with Interplay of Climate Change, Social, Economic and Environmental Factors, 2025, Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development, IAHR International Conference, June 22-27, 2025.
  • Co-Convenor, Session on Trends and Variation in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change, Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development,  IAHR International Conference, June 22-27, 2025.
  • Co-Convenor, Advances in Flood Forecasting and Warning Systems, European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly , Vienna, Austria, 30 April 2025. Oral Session.
  • Co-Convenor, Advances in Flood Forecasting and Warning Systems, European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 30 April 2025. Posters on Site Session.
  • Co-Convenor, Advances in Flood Forecasting and Warning Systems, European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly , Vienna, Austria, 30 April 2025. Posters Virtual Session.
  • Co-Convenor, Session on Advances in Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling for Flood Forecasting and Management (HS26), AOGS 2025, Singapore, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 27 July -August 5, 2025.
  • Member, Steering Committee, International Perspectives in Water and Environment (IPWE) Conference, ASCE-EWRI, January 8-10, 2025. India.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, International Perspectives in Water and Environment (IPWE) Conference, ASCE-EWRI, January 8-10, 2025. India.
  • Chair, Session on Water Resources Management, 5th IAHR Young Professionals Congress, 29 November 2024. Online.
  • Organizer of a session on Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – I, Hydroclimate Symposium, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 23, 2023. Not moderated.
  • Organizer of a session on Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – II, Hydroclimate Symposium, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 23, 2023. Not moderated.
  • Co-Convener, Moderator, Recent Advances in the Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling of Extreme Flood Events, April 25, EGU 2023. (Oral (virtual and onsite): 8:30 am – 10:15 am)
  • Co-Convener, Moderator, Recent Advances in the Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling of Extreme Flood Events, April 25,  EGU 2023. (Posters (virtual and onsite): 14:00 – 15:45 pm)
  • Co-Convener, Moderator, Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change,  April 25,  EGU 2023. (Oral (virtual and onsite): 16:15 pm – 18:00 pm)
  • Co-Convener, Moderator, Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change,  April 25, EGU 2023. (Oral (virtual and onsite): 10:45 am – 12:30 pm)
  • Panelist, Climate change and Adaptation, Water Stress & Management and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the session on Water Stress and Security under Evolving Climate: Emerging Issues and Resolutions, September 12, 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • International Expert, Invited, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE). Government of Kerala, India, June 17, 2022.
  • Member of Technical Committee, International Conference on Water and Environmental Engineering (iCWEE-2022), 2022, Australia. 27-30 November 2022.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, HYDRO2022 International Conference, December 2022. Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India.
  • Member, International Scientific Committee, 14th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Izmir, Turkey, May 2022.
  • Co-Convenor, Advances in the hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling and Design for Extreme Floods, EGU, General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23-27, May 2022.
  • Chair, technical session, Water-related Disasters and Climate Change, April 6, 2022, Emerging Water Challenges since COVID-19, online Conference, Youth Congress, Conference sponsored by UNESCO and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
  • Chair, technical session, HYDRO2021 International Conference, December 24, 2021.
  • Chair of the technical session, IAHR, Climate Change Sensitive Water Resources Management, Online, July 1, 2021.
  • Co-Convener, Emerging Approaches: Hydrologic-Hydraulics Modeling for Urban Floods and Thresholds in Hydrology, EGU, General Assembly, 19-30 April 2021, Conference.
  • Programme Committee Member, IEEE TALE 2020: Embarking on a New Era of Learning with Transformative Technologies. December 8-11, 2020, Takamatsu, Japan.
  • International Scientific Committee member, 14th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, September 2020, Turkey. Canceled due to Covid19.
  • Panel Member, Sustainable Water Resources Management under Climate Change, VBio-system engineering workshop – web 5.0 – Knowledge Hub in environmental management, November 5, 2019, UFF, Brazil.
  • Organizer and co-moderator (co-chair) of a session on Robust, Climate-Change Sensitive and Adaptive Water Resources Management, IAHR 2019, Panama. September 3, 2019.
  • Moderator(Chair) of a session on Water Management and Hydro-Informatics: Computational Hydrodynamics and Hydrology, Sept 5, 2019. IAHR 2019, Panama.
  • International Technical Committee Member, Conference on Water Security and Management (WSM 2020), Tokyo, Japan, May 30-June 2, 2020.
  • Expert Panel Member, Advancing new methods for the treatment of climate change and extreme events, May 22, 2019. EWRI International Conference.
  • Moderator of a session on: Statistical Modeling and Risk of Nonstationary Extreme Floods and Sea Levels, EWRI International Conference, May 23, 2019.
  • Organizer and Moderator of a session on: Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – I, Hydroclimate Symposium, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 22, 2019.
  • Organizer and Moderator of a session on: Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – II, Hydroclimate Symposium, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 22, 2019.
  • Organizer and Moderator of a session on: Hydroanalytics: Methods for Investigating Hydrological Data, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 23, 2019.
  • International Technical Committee Member, Water Security and Management (WSM 2019) Conference, Guilin, China, June 27-29, 2019.
  • KGC-2019, International Conference on Sustainable Development, 18-20 December 2019. International Advisory Committee Member.
  • Co-organizer, Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management Under Climate Change Workshop/Short Course, IAHR 2019 Panama. To be organized.
  • Co-organizer, Session on Robust, Climate-Change Sensitive and Adaptive Water Resources Management, IAHR 2019 Panama. To be moderated.
  • Member, International Scientific Committee for IWA YWP Technoscape 2020. The First Trans-Asia Conference on Smart Technologies for Waste Water Treatment, December 16-19, 2020.
  • Co-Chair, Session on Innovation in Conservation Practices, ASABE/ISAE Global Water Security Conference, Hyderabad, India, Oct 3-Oct 6, 2018.
  • Member, Program Committee, IEEE TALE (Teaching Assessment and Learning for Engineering) Conference, Wollongong, Australia. 2018.
  • Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, IAHR World Congress 2019, Panama City, Panama.
  • Co-Organizer and co-moderator of special session on Time Series Analysis for Climate Change Detection, Special session # 16, International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC2018, Palermo, 2018. July 3, 2018.
  • Organizer (only), Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change, EWRI International Conference, June 2018.
  • Organizer (only), Hydroanalytics: Methods for Investigating Hydrologic Data for Predictions, Patterns and Anomalies, EWRI International Conference, June 2018. Not moderated.
  • Organizer and Moderator of a session on: Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – I, Hydroclimate Symposium, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 2017.
  • Organizer of a session on: Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change – II, Watershed track, ASCE-EWRI International Conference, May 2017.
  • Moderator, Session on: Risk, Uncertainty & Probabilistic Approaches Symposium: Advances in Hydrologic Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Analysis, EWRI International Conference, May 23, 2017.
  • Member, Technical Advisory Committee, 1st International Conference on Water and Environmental Engineering (iCWEE 2017), 20-22, November, Sydney, Australia, 2017.
  • Co-organizer (or part of the organizing team) for Special Session: Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management under Climate Change, IAHR 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • International Technical Committee Member, Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) 2017. April 2017. Hana Square of the Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Moderator, Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change-II, EWRI 2016, West Palm Beach, May 23, 2016.
  • Moderator, Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change-I, EWRI 2016, West Palm Beach, May 25, 2016.
  • Co-Convener, Hydroanalytics: Data-based Methods for Descriptive and Prescriptive Modeling in Hydrology, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, 2015. Merged with another session.
  • Co-Convener, Estimation of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP): Issues, Methods and Applications, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, 2015. Merged with another session.
  • Convener and Moderator, Trends in Hydroclimatic Variables and their Links to Climate Variability and Change – I, EWRI Water Congress, ASCE, Austin, Texas, May 21, 2015.
  • Convener and Moderator, Trends in Hydroclimatic Variables and their Links to Climate Variability and Change – II, EWRI Water Congress, ASCE, Austin, Texas, May 21, 2015.
  • Co-Convener and moderator, one-day workshop on South Florida Water Resources: Observations, Modeling and Management in the Context of Regional Environmental Change, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, May 12, 2015.
  • Co-Chair, Session, Adaptation to Global Changes in Water Resources Management, IAHR Congress, Hague, June 2015.
  • Technical Committee Program Member, 2015 International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE2015), July 2015. Beijing, China.
  • Moderator, two sessions, South Florida Water Resources Workshop: Observations, Modeling and Management in the Context of Regional Environmental Changes, March 12, 2015. Florida Atlantic University.
  • General Co-Chair, Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) International Symposium, April Washington, D.C.
  • Moderator, Hydrologic Modeling, Weather Radar and Hydrology International Symposium, April 7, 2014, Washington D.C.
  • Convener, Radar-Based Precipitation Data for Hydrologic Modeling and Design: Emerging Issues, Methodologies and AGU Fall Meeting, December 2013.
  • Convener, Best Practices in Model Verification and Uncertainty Analysis across Earth’s Dynamic Systems, AGU Fall Meeting, and December Two oral sessions and one poster session.
  • Moderator, Rainfall Data Analysis Session. ASCE-EWRI World Water Resources and Environmental Congress, May 22, 2013. Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Convener and Chair Use of Radar-Based Precipitation Data for Hydrologic Modeling: Emerging Issues, Methodologies, Concepts and Applications, AGU Fall Meeting, 2012.
  • Chair and Convener, Advances in Uncertainty Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Hydrological Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, 2012. Oral Session.
  • Convener, Advances in Uncertainty Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Hydrological Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, 2012. Poster Session.
  • Panel member, Climate Change Research Needs in Water Resources Management, EWRI-ASCE Conference, 2012. Albuquerque.
  • Steering Committee Member, Hydrology of the Everglades in the Context of Climate Change USGS, CES, Sea Grant Sponsored Workshop March 29 & 30, 2012, Florida Atlantic University.
  • Convener, Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Hydrometeorology, American Meteorological Society Conference, January 2012 (not attended).
  • Convener, H41G. High-Resolution Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimation and Evaluation: Recent Advances and User Perspectives I Posters, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2011.
  • Convener, H34D. Uncertainty Assessment, Optimization, and Sensitivity Analysis in Integrated Hydrologic Modeling as Applications of HydroInformatics III, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2011.
  • Chair/Moderator, Uncertainty Assessment Methods in Hydrologic Modeling Session, ASCE, EWRI, World Water Congress, 2011.
  • Chair/Moderator, Uncertainty Assessment Methods in Hydrologic Modeling Session, ASCE, EWRI, World Water Congress, 2011.
  • Chair/Moderator, NEXRAD Rain Data Application, ASCE, EWRI, World Water Congress, 2011.
  • Convener, H32B. Changing Dynamics of Complex Eco-hydrological Systems I AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, San Francisco.
  • Convener, H21F. Uncertainty Analysis Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling II Posters AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, San Francisco.
  • Convener and Chair, H12C. Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications: From Watershed to Global Scales II AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, San Francisco.
  • Convener and Chair, H21E. Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications: From Watershed to Global Scales III Posters. AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, San Francisco.
  • Convener and Chair, H14E. Uncertainty Analysis Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling I, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, San Francisco.
  • Scientific Advisory Committee Member, HydroPredict, Prague, 2010.
  • Moderator, Approaches for Decision Making under Uncertainty, ASCE/EWRI World Water Congress, 2010
  • Moderator, NEXRAD Rainfall Data Applications in Hydrology, ASCE/EWRI, World Water Congress, 2010
  • Moderator, Hydrologic Model Structures and Formulations: Uncertainty Assessments, ASCE/EWRI World Water Congress, 2010.
  • Chair, Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE/EWRI International Conference on Water Resources, January 5, 2010.
  • Chair, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling, ASCE/EWRI International Conference on Water Resources, January 6, 2010.
  • Convener & Chair, Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface and Hydrological Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009, Oral Session
  • Convener, Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface and Hydrological Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009, Poster Session.
  • Convener, Computational Paradigms and Emerging Issues in Hydrologic Modeling and Hydrosystems Management, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009. Oral Session.
  • Convener & Chair, Computational Paradigms and Emerging Issues in Hydrologic Modeling and Hydrosystems Management, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009. Poster Session.
  • Convener, Uncertainty Analysis Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009. Oral Session.
  • Convener, Uncertainty Analysis Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, December 2009. Poster Session.
  • Committee, Member, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), HYDRO-PREDICT, 2010, September, Prague.
  • Moderator, NEXRAD Data Analysis and Application session, ASCE/EWRI International Conference, Kansas City, 2009.
  • Moderator, Hydrologic Monitoring Network session, ASCE/EWRI International Conference, Kansas City, 2009.
  • Conference Technical Chair, Water Resources Area ASCE/EWRI International Conference on Water Resources, January
  • Faculty Learning Communities (FLC), Facilitator, Inquiry Based Learning in Class Room Teaching, Florida Atlantic University, 2009-2010.
  • Task Committee, Vice-Chair, Uncertainty Modeling Approaches in Hydrology, Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee (SWHTC), ASCE, 2008, 2009.
  • Task Committee Co-Chair, Manual of Standard Practice of Radar Rainfall Data Sets, Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee (SWHTC), ASCE, 2008, 2009.
  • Convener, Use of Rain Gage-Radar (NEXRAD) Rainfall Data Relationships for Hydrologic Modeling and Water Resources Management: Emerging Issues, Concepts and Applications, AGU Fall Meeting, 2008, 2009.
  • Convener, Artificial Intelligence for Hydrological modeling and Hydrosystems Management, AGU Fall Meeting, 2008.
  • Task Committee Member, Statistical Distributions in Hydrology, Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee, ASCE, 2008.
  • Task Committee Member, NWS-WSR88D NEXRAD Committee, ASCE, 2008.
  • Technical Committee Member, Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee, ASCE, 2008.
  • Chair for the session: Ecohydrology: Ecohydrological Modeling, September 14, 2008, Hydro-Predict International Conference, 2008, Prague.
  • Chair for the session: Linking Atmospheric and Hydrological Processes, Hydro-Predict International Conference, 2008, Prague September 16, 2008.
  • Convener & Chair for the Session: Weather and Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and the Environment, American Geophysical Union, Joint Assembly, 27-30 May 2008, Fort Lauderdale, USA. Oral Session, H51B.
  • Convener & Chair for the Session: Weather and Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and the Environment, American Geophysical Union, Joint Assembly, 27-30 May 2008, Fort Lauderdale, USA. Poster Session: H43C.
  • Chair for the Session: Radar/NEXRAD Rainfall Data Applications in Hydrology. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008 May 13-16, 2008 Honolulu, Hawaii, Oral session.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Information Infrastructure, Soft Computing and Knowledge Discovery Methods for Monitoring, Modeling and Data Management in Hydrology, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007, December 10-14th, 2007, California, USA, oral session.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Information Infrastructure, Soft Computing and Knowledge Discovery Methods for Monitoring, Modeling and Data Management in Hydrology, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007, December 10-14th, 2007, California, USA, poster session.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Rain Gage- Radar (NEXRAD) Rainfall Data Relationships: Emerging Data Quality Issues, Concepts and Applications for Hydrologic Modeling, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007, December 10-14th, 2007, California, USA, Oral session.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Rain Gage- Radar (NEXRAD) Rainfall Data Relationships: Emerging Data Quality Issues, Concepts and Applications for Hydrologic Modeling, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007, December 10-14th, 2007, California, USA, Poster session.
  • Committee Member, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), HYDRO-PREDICT, 2008, 15-18 September, Prague.
  • Moderator, for two sessions, Ninth Water Information Summit; Water Information Dissemination- (WIS-9) for two sessions. June 5-7, 2007.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Soft Computing Tools for Hydrologic Modeling, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2006, December 11th, 2006, California, USA.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Soft Computing Tools for Hydrologic Modeling-I, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2005, December 9th, 2005, California, USA.
  • Convener and Chair for the Session: Soft Computing Tools for Hydrologic Modeling-II, Poster Session, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2005, December 9th, 2005, California, USA.
  • Chair, for the Session: Water Resources Risk Management, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, April 9-12th, 2000, University of California, Davis, California, USA.

 Academic and Administrative Search Committees

  • Member, Graduate Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU.
    • Assisted in the development of Ph.D. degree requirements.
    • Assisted the committee in developing several guidelines for graduate student admission requirements.
    • Developed guidelines poster presentation evaluation criteria for college level graduate student poster presentation awards.
  • Chair, Graduate Program Committee (GPC) & Graduate Program Director, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, FAU.
    • Designed and developed the graduate thesis announcement template.
  • Member, University Research Committee (URC), 2017- 2018
    • Evaluation/selection of Researcher of the Year, Scholar of the Year award applications/awards, 2018.
    • Evaluation/selection of sabbatical applications/awards.
  • Member, Sustainable Performance Evaluation (SPE) Ad Hoc committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. 2016.
  • Chair, Research Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 2016-2018.
    • Represented COECS at the university research committee
    • Coordinated the selection of Researcher and Scholar of the Year Awards
  • Member, Research Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 2016-2018.
    • Evaluate Researcher of the year, Scholar of the year award applications
  • Member, Graduate Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 2012-2015.
  • Chair and Member, Resource Committee, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, FAU, 2013-till date.
    • Created electronic (fillable) travel support request form and equipment funding support form.
    • Created electronic (fillable) travel authorization request (TAR) form for the department.
    • Evaluated and approved over 30 travel support requests from the faculty members.
  • Member, Search Committee (Environmental Engineering Faculty Position), Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, FAU, 2019.
  • Member, Civil Engineering Chair Search (Interim) Committee, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, FAU, 2013.
  • Member, Dean Search Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU, 2012-2013.
  • Member, Interim Dean Search Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU, 2011.
  • Member, Search Committee for Faculty, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, 2009.
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