About the Speaker

Auroop R. Ganguly is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, where he leads the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory and the AI for Climate and Sustainability thrust within the Institute for Experiential AI, and previously co-directed the Global Resilience Institute. Ganguly has over 28 years of full-time professional experience in the U.S., spanning academia, government research, and the private sector. He has publications and quotes in high-impact journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS; awards from AI and data mining conferences; media highlights in Newsweek, The New York Times, Time Magazine, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal; has launched multiple successful startups; has worked with local, regional, and global stakeholders; and has received funding from US federal agencies, nonprofits, private companies, individual donors, and international agencies and organizations. Ganguly has been cited in United Nations reports, contributed to their workshops and panels, delivered keynotes at US National Academy and other scientific workshops and conferences, and been featured by the National Science Foundation. With his current or former PhD students, he has launched successful startups in the US and India. One, focusing on urban climate risks using physics-data methods, was acquired by the Fortune 500 company that owns the New York Stock Exchange. Another, focused on urban flooding in India, is being widely deployed across Indian cities. Ganguly is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a B.Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.