Principal Investigator

Auroop R. Ganguly, PhD

College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
email: a.ganguly@northeastern.edu

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

US DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

Private Sector Startups

  • Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Adviser, risQ (now ICE Climate)
    • Acquired: Please see here, there, and yonder!
    • Led by former PhD student Dr. Evan Kodra
  • Adviser, Zeus AI
    • Led by former PhD students Dr. Thomas J. Vandal and Dr. Kate Duffy
  • Co-Founder and Adviser, AIResQ
    • Led by former PhD student Dr. Udit Bhatia
  • Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Adviser, Enodia
    • Led by former PhD student Dr. Jack Watson.

Management & Coordination

Robyn Anderson

Technical Program Development and Operations Manager
email: ro.anderson@northeastern.edu

  • MBA, Georgia State University
  • Masters in Public Policy, George Mason university
  • Masters of Strategic & Defense Studies, U.S. Naval War College

Bhoomika Gupta

Executive Assistant
email: bh.gupta@northeastern.edu

  • MS in Computer Science, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
  • Bachelors in Economics, University of Delhi

Postdoctoral Associates

Somnath Mondal

Postdoc, Started Fall, 2024
email: s.mondal@northeastern.edu

  • Ph.D. Clemson University
  • M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
  • B.E. Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University

Raviraj Dave

Postdoc, Started Spring, 2025
email: r.dave@northeastern.edu

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
  • M.Tech. in Geomatics, CEPT University
  • B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Elizabeth Eldhose

Postdoc, Started Spring, 2025
email: e.eldhose@northeastern.edu

  • M. Tech + Ph.D., Water Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • B. Tech in Civil Engineering, Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kerala

Puja Das

Postdoc, Interdisciplinary Engineering, started Fall 2020
email: das.puj@northeastern.edu

  • MSc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering(Data and Systems) from Northeastern University
  • BSc. in Water Resources Engineering from BUET

Ivan Felipe Benedivas

Postdoc, started Spring 2024
email: i.benavides@northeastern.edu

  • PhD in Ecology, Austral University
  • Professor and Researcher, National University of Colombia
  • BSc in Biology, University of Narino

Dongqin Zhou

Postdoc, started Fall 2024
email: d.zhou@northeastern.edu

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University
  • B.Eng. in Traffic Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Rachindra Mawalagedara

Postdoc, started April 2023
email: s.mawalagedara@northeastern.edu

  • Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Doctoral Students

Jack Watson

Interdisciplinary PhD Student, started Fall 2020
email: watson.jac@northeastern.edu

Aayushi Mishra

PhD Candidate, started Fall 2023
email: mishra.aay@northeastern.edu

  • BA in Biology and Environmental Studies from Mount Holyoke College
  • MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University

Archita Ghosh

PhD student, starting Fall 2023
email: ghosh.arc@northeastern.edu

  • Btech in Electrical Engineering from Future Institute of Engg. and Management
  • MS by Research from School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur

Dian Indrawati

Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate, started Fall 2021
email: indrawati.d@northeastern.edu

  • BA in Civil Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology.

Danish Mansoor

Ph.D. Candidate, starting Fall 2023
email: mansoor.d@northeastern.edu

  • B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from IIT, Gandhinagar
  • M.Tech. in Civil Engineering from IIT, Gandhinagar

Shuochen Wang

PhD Candidate, started Fall 2023
email: wang.shuoc@northeastern.edu

  • BS in Atmospheric Sciences from Lanzhou University
  • MS in Environmental Management and Science from Carnegie Mellon University

Diyali Goswami 

Interdisciplinary PhD Student, started Fall 2024
email: goswami.di@northeastern.edu

  • BTech in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology
  • MSECE with a concentration in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Algorithms from Northeastern University

Valeria Zingaretti

PhD Student, started 2021
email: zingaretti.v@northeastern.edu

  • MSc in Forestry and the Environment from Austral University of Chile
  • Bachelor in Geography from National University of Cuyo, Argentina

Postgrad Data Scientist & Masters Students

August Posch

email: au.posch@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Data Scientist

  • MS, Data Science, Northeastern University
  • BS, Mathematics, Bowdoin College

Kartik Aggarwal

email: k.aggarwal@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Geospatial-Temporal Data Scientist, Roux Institute

  • MS, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, Northeastern University
  • Bachelor in Technology, Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology, India

Soumyo Dey

email: s.dey@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Geospatial-Temporal Data Scientist, Roux Institute

  • Masters in Data Science, Northeastern University
  • Bachelor in Technology, Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology, India

Paing Hein Soe

email: soe.p@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Master’s Student and Researcher at SDS Lab

  • MSc in Energy Systems, Northeastern University
  • BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Yangon Technoloigcal University

Justin Guthrie

email: j.guthrie@northeastern.edu
Current Position: GIS & Tech Operations Lead at Enodia, Inc. | Research Associate at the Defense Industrial Base Institute

  • Bachelor's in Data Science and Business, Northeastern University

Nihar Sanda

email: sanda.n@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Graduate Researcher at Institute of Experiential AI

  • MSCS, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
  • BTech in CSE from Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Dharwad

Romit Basak

email: basak.r@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Master’s Student at SDS Lab

  • MS in Computer Science, Northeastern University
  • B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India

Shivang Manishkumar Patel

email: patel.shivangm@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Master’s Student and Graduate Researcher

  • MSCS, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Diane Grant

email: grant.d@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Master’s Student and Student Researcher

  • MS Engineering and Public Policy
  • BS in Computer Science and Political Science

Teiana Cataldo

email: cataldo.te@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Graduate Student Researcher at SDS Lab

  • MSc in Data Analytics Engineering at Northeastern University
  • BSc in Biological Sciences at California Polytechnic State University

Emily Piwowarski

email: piwowarski.em@northeastern.edu
Current Position: Graduate Student Researcher at SDS Lab

  • MS Civil Engineering at Northeastern University
  • BS in Chemistry and BS in Marine Chemistry from North Carolina State University

Undergraduate Students

Alan Zhang


Current : Computer Science.

Deepchand Maddipati


Current : Energy systems.

Autumn Rayne Skillin


Current : Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Ruth Linnaea Cahill


Current : Civil and Environmental Engineering (Starting graduate studies from Fall 2021 at TU Delft, Netherlands).

Sophia Bailey


Current : Chemical Engineering.

Tejas Satyamurthi


Current : Computer Science.

Violet Lingenfelter


Current : Environmental Science (Starting graduate studies from Fall 2021 at UC Berkeley, California).

Jessica Carr


Current : Environmental Science.

Alumni (Northeastern)

Puja Das

Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University
Current : Postdoc, Interdisciplinary Engineering, started Fall 2020

Orijeet Mukherjee

Graduate Researcher at Institute of Experiential AI 2024 - 2025
Current : Linkedin

Arnob Roy

Postdoc (2023 - 2025)
Current : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Linkedin)

Santiago Arrieta

Executive Assistant (2023-2025)
Current :

Ashis Kumar Pal

PhD Student (2020 - 2024)
Current : Data Science || Asset Management Consultant at Arcadis (Linkedin)

Rishi Dipak Sahastrabuddhe

Postdoc (2022 - 2024)
Current : Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter. (Linkedin)

Nishant Yadav

PhD Student (2019-2023).
Current : Applied Scientist II - Microsoft. (Linkedin)

Kate Duffy

PhD Student (2017-2021).
Current : Co-Founder, Zeus AI. (Linkedin)

Bharat Sharma

PhD Student (2016-2022).
Current : Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Linkedin)

Udit Bhatia

PhD Student (2014-2018).
Current : Assistant Professor at IIT Gandhinagar, India. (Linkedin)

Kevin L. Clark

PhD Student (2010-2018).
Current : Chief (Aviation Facilities) at Volpe. (Linkedin)

Debashish Das

Research Associate (2012-2014).
Current : Staff Scientist at Intuit. (Linkedin)

Babak J Fard

PhD Student (2014-2018).
Current : Postdoc at University of Nebraska Medical Center. (Linkedin)

Poulomi Ganguli

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013-2015).
Current : Assistant Professor at IIT Kharagpur, India. (Linkedin)

Evan Kodra

PhD Student (2011-2014).
Current : CEO, risQ. (Linkedin)

Venkata Shashank Konduri

PhD Student (2015-2021).
Current : Postdoc at NASA Goddard. (Linkedin)

Devashish Kumar

PhD Student (2012-2015).
Current : Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Tokio Marine Technologies. (Linkedin)

Daiwei Wang

Postdoc (2013-2015).
Current : Senior Scientist at AIR Worldwide. (Linkedin)

Thomas Vandal

PhD Student (2015-2018).
Current : Scientist at NASA Ames. (Linkedin)

Hanieh Hassanzadeh

Associate Research Scientist (2016-2017).
Current : AI Product Manager/Senior Data Eng at Fidelity Investments. (Website)

Vimal Mishra

Visiting Professor.
Current : Associate Professor at IIT Gandhinagar . (Website)

Alumni (Postgraduate Students)

Alumni (Undergraduate Students)

Alumni (ORNL and other: prior to Northeastern)

Shiraj Khan


Lab Role : PhD Student.
Current : VP (Research and Analytics) at PIMCO. (Linkedin)

Karsten Steinhaeuser


Lab Role : PhD Student.
Current : Program Manager at AeroVironment. (Linkedin)

Shih-Chieh Kao


Lab Role : Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Current : Group Leader at ORNL. (Website)

Gabriel Kuhn


Lab Role : Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Current : TU Munich

Esther Parish


Lab Role : Postgraduate Research Associate.
Current : Environmental Scientist at ORNL. (Linkedin)

Olufemi Omitaomu


Lab Role : Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Current : Senior R & D Staff at ORNL. (Linkedin)

Yi Fang


Lab Role : Postgraduate Research Associate.
Current : Associate Professor (Dept. of Computer Science) at Santa Clara University. (Linkedin)

Subimal Ghosh


Lab Role : Visiting Professor.
Current : Professor (CEE and Head, Climate IDP) at IIT Bombay. (Website)

Pierre Ngnepieba


Lab Role : Visiting Professor.
Current : Professor & Associate Dean at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. (Website)