SDS Lab - Research

Research

The SDS Lab research themes are described in the Home Page while selected publications are highlighted in the Publications page. Here we list selected funding, including organizations supporting our experiential graduate students, along with presentations and posters that summarize our research. Furthermore, we provide links to shared codes and data repositories developed by current and former SDS Lab members. The PI’s Google Scholar profile, as well as his NU COE, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia pages, provide other details.

Funding

The SDS Lab PI Auroop Ganguly has been directly involved in funding grants for research totaling around $25 Million during his last 10 years at Northeastern University and prior 7 years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His funding has primarily come from US federal agencies such as NSF, DOD, NASA, DHS, DOE and DOE Labs, with occasional grants and in-kind support from the private and public sectors. Ganguly has also managed several large projects and products during his experience in the private sector. Here we list a few selected research funding.

Selected Funding:
- Weather Ensemble Analytics and Visualization Environment (WEAVE). DOD Air Force Weather. (NU COE news)
- Networked Infrastructure under Compound Extremes (NICE). US DOD SERDP. (DOD Announcement, NU News and SERDP Poster Presentation)
- Remote-sensing data driven Artificial Intelligence for precipitation Nowcasting (RAIN). NASA. (video, paper)
- Interdependent Network-based Quantification of Infrastructure Resilience (INQUIRE). NSF CRISP Type 2. (NSF Award Page and NU News)
- High-Dimensional Statistical Machine Learning for Spatio-Temporal Climate Data. NSF Big Data F DKA. (NSF Award Page)
- SEA-MASCOT: Spatio-temporal Extremes and Associations : Marine Adaptation and Survivorship under Changes in extreme Ocean Temperatures. NSF Cyber SEES Type 2 (NSF Award Page and NU News)
- Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach. NSF Expeditions in Computing. (NSF Award Page, NSF News, UTK News, NU News and UMN Project Page)

Organizations funding Experiential PhD Students:

For a detailed list of funding grants, see the PI’s CV here

Presentations:

Climate, weather and water to infrastructures, ecology and finance

Invited Talk. Rafael L. Bras Symposium. 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society

Hybrid Physics-AI and Entrepreneurship in Climate and Sustainability

KHU-NU Joint AI Workshop. Kyung Hee University Brain Pool Project, South Korea & Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University – January 2026

Towards AI4CEE at NU CEE: Research at the Interfaces and Lessons Learned

Civil and Environmental Engineering Ideas Lab, Northeastern University- December 8

Forecasting the Future – How Accurate Are Our Climate Change Models?

Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium 2025. Click the title to access the video. Prof. Ganguly's talk begins at the 43:28 mark.

Threat Deterrence in Soft Urban Transport Targets with Network Science and Machine Learning (Cited in a Testimony to the US Senate)

DOD NICE SERDP Workshop

SERDP 2020 Symposium: Project NICE by Auroop Ganguly

SDS Lab Resilience Research Introduction

Convergent Research to Industry Startups by SDS Lab PI Auroop Ganguly and risQ CEO Evan Kodra

SDS Lab Research Overview: Invited Talk at IIT Gandhinagar by Auroop Ganguly

Keynotes: The National Academy

NSF ScienceLives Interview

SDS Lab Climate Research Introduction

Repositories:

Code or Data Repositories by current or former SDS Lab team and close collaborators:

GitHub Pages:

Climate Machine Learning by Thomas James Vandal
Deep Emulaton of Satellite Data and Models by Kate Duffy
Climate Risk and Infrastructure Resilience by Udit Bhatia
Transportation Infrastructure Resilience by Nishant Yadav
Climate Downscaling and Spatiotemporal Analysis by Yumin Liu

Journal Repositories (check supplemental information):