Prof. Auroop Ganguly (Northeastern University)  Earth system model informed climate adaptation decision making under uncertainty   (Keynote)

Prof. Bhupendra Nath Ganguly (Cotton University, Guwahati)  AI Power Starts the Second Revolution in Weather Forecasting   (Keynote)

Dr. Forrest Hoffman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) Exploiting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Advancing Earth System Prediction  (Keynote)

Prof. Subimal Ghosh (IIT Bombay) Enhancing Climate Services for Agriculture water management and extreme forecasting 

Prof.  Anuj Karpatne (Virginia Tech, USA) Knowledge-guided Machine Learning: Current Trends and Future Prospects in Combining Scientific Knowledge in Machine Learning 

Prof. Rajib Maity (IIT Kharagpur) AI-ML in the context of Climate Change Impacts on Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Engineering 

Prof.  Abhijit Mukherjee (IIT Kharagpur) Use of data science in hydrological studies 

Prof.  Arpita Mondal (IIT Bombay) Unsupervised Machine Learning Applications in Hydro-climatology 

Prof. Udit Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar) Physics Guided Machine Learning for hydrological processes in managed and unmanaged basins 

Prof. Vinoj V. (IIT Bhubaneswar) Climate Change and Urbanization of Indian Cities in Recent Times: Insights from Space based Observations 

Dr. Manmeet Singh (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Advancing climate science using AI: past, present and future 

Prof. Jatin Batra (TIFR, Mumbai)  Preliminary joint investigations of NWP and data driven models for weather physics in India 

Prof. Pragnaditya Malakar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Climate and human influence on multidepth groundwater: observations and predictions 

Dr. Bipin Kumar (IITM Pune) DL-based Model for Fire Location Prediction 

Dr. Laxmi Pandey (BGI, Hannover, Germany) Application of AI/ML in Geophysics 

Dr. Nachiketa Acharya (Lynker, USA) Statistical Learning for Climate Projections and Predictions (held later than the main event)


The following students also made presentations:

Akshay Sunil (IIT Bombay)

Sarth Dubey (IIT Gandhinagar)

Prasad Deshpande (IIT Kanpur)

Mukul Kumar (IIT Delhi)

Ankita Singh (IIT Bhubaneswar)

Archita Ghosh (Northeastern University, USA)

Akshay Pachore (IIT Kharagpur)

Deepayan Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)

Sumanta Chandra Mishra Sharma (IIT Kharagpur)


Photos of the event by Anjali Raj