• PhD (2025) in Meteorology: Air, Water and Landscape Science (LUVAL), Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Thesis: "Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainties in Studying Atmospheric Rivers and Moisture Transport: From Data and Heuristics to Scaling and Impacts".

Supervisors: Anna Rutgersson (Professor) and Erik Sahlee (Associate Professor), Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.

 Find more here: Venugopal Thallam: Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainties in Studying Atmospheric Rivers and Moisture Transport: From Data and Heuristics to Scaling and Impacts - Uppsala University (uu.se)

• Master's degree (2012) in Space Technology & Applications: Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, and National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC), ISRO, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Thesis: "A Neural Network Approach to Improve the Vertical Resolution of Atmospheric Relative Humidity Profiles from Geostationary Satellites"

Supervisors: Neerja Sharma (Scientist SF), Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India.

 M.M. Ali (Group Director, RETD), Group Director, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Group, ISRO, India.

Find more here: A Neural Network Approach to Improve the Vertical Resolution of Atmospheric Relative Humidity Profiles from Geostationary Satellites (researchgate.net)

• Bachelor's degree (2009) in Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering): SVPCET, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Thesis: "Timetable Monitoring System for an Academic Institution"

Supervisor: Karthikeyan (Associate Professor) and Janardhan Babu (Professor), SVPCET, Puttur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Senior Secondary School (2003-2005): Board of Secondary Education (Maths, Physics & Chemistry), Rayalaseema Art & Science Junior College, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Secondary School (2000-2002): Board of Secondary Education (Natural Science & Maths), Rayalaseema School, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Researcher | Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 | Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Researcher Fellow  | Sep 2018 - Mar 2025 | Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Researcher          | Sep 2018 - present | CNDS, Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Affiliate                | Sep 2019 - present | CEFO, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Researcher          | Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 | Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.

• Researcher          | Feb 2016 - Aug 2016 | Skymet Weather Services Pvt Ltd, Noida, India.

• Research Fellow | Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 | Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.

• Research Fellow | May 2014 - ­Jan 2016 | ESSO­-INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Hyderabad, India.

• Project Assistant | Jul 2012 - ­May 2014 | CSIR-­National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India.

• Research Fellow   | Jun 2011 - Jun 2012 | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Govt. of India, Hyderabad, India.

• Junior Lecturer    | May 2009 - May 2011 | CAN Junior College, M.R. Educational Institutes, Tirupati, India.

• Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS).

• The CEMUS research forum CEFO.

• Bolin-centre-for-climate-research

• Contributing developer at https://dev.ec-earth.org/projects/ec-earth-4

• Member of Climate Change AI Nordics (https://ccainordics.com/people/).

• Member of the Swedish Meteorological Society, Sweden.

• Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGU).

• Member of SULF, Swedish University Teachers and Researchers.

• Active in the Centre for Discipline-Based Education Research at TekNat (MINT), Uppsala University.

• Member of AI Sweden (https://my.ai.se/home).

• Actively engaging in CCAI (https://www.climatechange.ai/)

• Member of Encode: AI for Science

• The Nordic Research Software Engineers (Nordic-RSE) association

• Actively involved in eSSENCE of e-Science

• Member of CodeRefinery community

• Member of COMPUTE, Lund University, Sweden

• Member of ML4Cryo (https://ml4cryo.github.io/)

• Member of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) (https://www.apecs.is)

• Member of the PAGES (Past Global Changes) project (https://pastglobalchanges.org)

• Member of the Future Earth (https://futureearth.org), a global network of scientists, researchers, and innovators collaborating for a more sustainable planet.

• Member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)

• Supervising the PhD thesis of K Venkatramana, Fellow and Area Convenor, Centre for Climate Modelling, TERI.

• Teena Davis, BSc project, CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), Pune, Lavasa Campus, "Imputation of Global Tropical Oceanic Radiative Observations with CERES Satellite Data using Neural Networks".

• Chaitanya, Yashoda and Tulasi (Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada), “Evaluation of seasonal summer monsoon forecast from long-term CCSM4 ensembles over India using IMD observations”

• Machine learning modelling using Statistica, Matlab, Anaconda, and several Python packages.

• Scientific software, such as TECA-BARD, a Bayesian framework for parallel data analytics on large-scale systems, and IPART, was used to detect and analyse atmospheric rivers.

• Developed Python algorithms for effective tracking of lifetime and lengths/sizes of Atmospheric rivers on an hourly basis globally.

• Experience using numerical models such as MOM, EC-Earth, WRF, GISS GCM-ROCKE-3D, etc.

• Experience with AI-ML tools, packages and libraries; NLP, Generative AI, Foundation models, Diffusion models, AI Agents and Agentic AI

• Experience using HPC systems such as SNIC, UPPMAX, ALVIS, NAISS, ECMWF MARS, ENCCS, etc.

• Actively involved in eSSENCE, a strategic collaborative research programme in e-science between Uppsala University, Lund University & Umeå University.

• Comfortable with operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and cloud computing, such as Globus.

• Experience in handling large datasets from NASA Earth Data, EUMETSAT, ESA, ECMWF, NOAA, Copernicus Data Store (CDS), APDRC, CMIP, ISIMIP, and CORDEX, etc., and different file formats like GRIB, NetCDF, Binary, JSON, Text and CSV, etc.

• Using C, C++, NOAA Pyferret, GISS Panoply, Python, R, Julia, CDO, NCO, FORTRAN, MATLAB, GNU AWK, and Shell Script (ZSH and BASH).

• Using packages GMT (PyGMT), Adobe Illustrator, NCL, GRADS, and GNUPLOT for data processing and visualisation.

• Experience in documenting and presenting your work, both technically and scientifically, using tools like MS Office, Overleaf, Libre Office, and Google Office apps in the cloud.

1. Experience using numerical models and statistical and machine learning techniques for parameterising and forecasting weather and climate variables.

2. Developed Python algorithms for effectively tracking the lifetime and lengths/sizes of Atmospheric rivers.

3. Working on integrated water vapour transport, dynamics, and thermodynamics of the atmosphere for understanding extreme hydrometeorological events.

4. Experience using Bayesian techniques and Image-processing-based object tracking methods implemented on a framework for parallel data analytics on large-scale systems using C++, MPI + X, OpenMP, or GPUs, wrapped in Python to deliver state-of-the-art performance and scaling. 

5. Working to quantify the importance of air-sea interaction on atmospheric rivers to better predict extreme events on land.

6. Experience quantifying atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamic parameters' role in cloud formation and extreme precipitation.

7. Experience in using in situ numerical models and satellite data to study the role of upper ocean dynamics, thermodynamics and stratification on cyclones.

8. Experience with international projects and interdisciplinary collaboration.

9. Experience using machine learning techniques to improve the vertical resolution of atmospheric relative humidity profiles from geostationary satellites and using GPSRO data.

10. Participated in onboard cruises over the Bay of Bengal to collect in situ oceanography and meteorology data like wind, humidity, subsurface temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton using in situ instruments like XBT, XCTD, and CTD.

11. Experience in validating, statistically analysing and evaluating high-resolution, hybrid and blended atmospheric and ocean flux data sets (required to force GCMs) from multiple reanalysis and satellite products like MODIS-CERES.

12. Processing and using in situ data from the Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (GTMBA) and Ocean Moored Buoy Network for northern Indian Ocean (OMNI) buoys in the global tropical oceans for weather and climate forecasting.

• Completed courses from universities such as MIT, Stanford, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Copenhagen through the MOOCs interface.

• Astroparticle Physics in the Theoretical Physics Department is associated with the ITEP supernova research group “5 -100” program, which includes Moscow State University, Butker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Laboratory of Cosmology and Elementary Particle Physics.

• DST-­SERB school on “Fundamentals of Oceanic Processes and Modelling”, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT-­Delhi, May 19th - Jun 11th, 2015

• International Training Course on "Indian Ocean Dynamics: From the large-scale Circulation to small-scale Eddies and Fronts”, ITCOocean, INCOIS, India, November 16th-­27th, 2015. 

• I completed coursework on Relativity and Tensor analysis, Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Astrophysics at Novosibirsk State University, Russia, in 2017.

• 17th JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, Baikal, July 13th to 20th, 2017.

• Research Introduction Course for New PhD Studies, The Faculty of Science and Technology. Uppsala University, Fall 2018. 

• PhD Course Scientific Writing, the Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University, 19-27 November 2018.

• Academic Teacher Training Course I, The Division for Quality Enhancement, Academic Teaching and Learning, Uppsala University, Spring 2019.

• Online training week: Software and computing at ECMWF, 13-17 May 2019.

• The 9th ODC training course on climate dynamics and air-sea interactions at the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Qingdao, China, from 17-28 June 2019, by UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Centre on Ocean Dynamics and Climate.

• High SEAS Summer School, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 22nd-28th January 2020.

• Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Science (AI4ESS) Summer School, June 22-26, 2020, by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA. 

• EUMETSAT short course 1: How high is the sea, a short course on Altimetry Discovery, September 16, 2020.

• The 10th UNESCO/IOC-RTRC-ODC Training Course on Regional Application of Coupled Climate Models, 5-16 July 2021, Qingdao, China.

• Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science (TAI4ES) Summer School (virtual), July 26-29, 2021

• Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science (TAI4ES) Summer School, National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) in conjunction with NCAR, Jun. 27 to Jun. 30, 2022.

• CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate, 14-20 August 2022, Qingdao, China & Online.

• The first Climate Change AI Summer School 2022, Aug 15-26, 2022 (Virtual).

• 11th ODC training course on Prediction and Projection of Climate, 22-28 August 2022, Qingdao, China & Online

• 4th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences, virtual event, September 6-9, 2022.

• Large Language Models: Foundations and Applications, 21-22 May 2025, UU-Infolab, Uppsala University.

• YESS map-making course for Earth System Scientists - 2nd edition on July 10th, 2025 (online).

• Selected for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 2025 post-doctoral fellowship at Kumamoto University, Japan. 

• Named among the top 100 most-cited researchers in the "Meteorological Application" journal, RMetS, for August 2024. 

• Nominated for the "Schmidt Science Fellows 2023" by Uppsala University.

• Group Leader, Best Trainee award in the 9th ODC training course on climate dynamics and air-sea interactions at First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Qingdao, China, 17-28 June 2019 by UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Centre on Ocean Dynamics and Climate.

• University topper in the master's degree (Space Technology & Applications), Dept. of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. 

• Achieved 4th rank in the Master of Technology (Space Technology and Applications) entrance examination.

• Alumni award for being the topper in SVPCET engineering college (Bachelor of Technology) in 2008.

• Best student award for the years 1999 and 2000 in high school.

• Reviewer for Common Grounds Research Network and IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report.

• Reviewer for MDPI Climate, Geosciences, Applied Sciences, Sustainability, and Remote Sensing Journals.

• Reviewer for Oceanologia, Elsevier.

• Reviewer for Copernicus Earth System Dynamics journal, EGU

• Reviewer for Nature Scientific Reports, Climate Dynamics, and Theoretical and Applied Climatology.

• Reviewer for BMC Research Notes, Pure and Applied Geophysics, and Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology.

• Reviewer for Geophysical Research Letters, AGU

• Reviewer for Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, AMS

• Reviewer for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, Science Partner Journals.

• Reviewer for Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers

• An active member of different scientific forums and volunteering with various scientific organisations. 

My peer reviews - Web of Science Researcher Profiles 

https://networker.copernicus.org/my-profile  

• Two-Day Workshop on Science and Technology Initiatives in Atmospheric Science at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, 25-­26 November 2010, Gadanki.

• National Conference on Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Weather Prediction and Climate Change [ARWPCC­ 2011], NARL, Tirupati.

• Tropmet­-2011, Indian Meteorological Society, December 14–16, 2011, Hyderabad.

• National Space Science Symposium (NSSS­-2012) of ISRO, Tirupati. Attended Workshop on "Satellite navigation systems their application to aviation and atmospheric science ", 30th March 2012, Tirupati.

• PORSEC-­2012, the Eleventh Biennial Conference with the theme “Ocean Remote Sensing for Wellbeing of All” in Kochi, Kerala, 05­-09, December 2012.

• The 83rd Annual Session of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) and a Symposium on “Space for Human welfare”, 05-0­7 December 2013, Goa.

• Sixth National Workshop on Science of Climate Change: Indian Ocean and Monsoon, 12th September 2014, (ESSO­-INCOIS), Hyderabad.

• 4th National Conference of Ocean Society of India (OSICON­'15), CSIR­-NIO, Goa, March 22­-24, 2015.

• SPIE­-Asia Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium held in New Delhi on 4-7th April 2016.

• Workshop on Multi-hazards, compound events and cascading effects at Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala University, 9 October 2018. 

• PhD days' workshop, TNDR-Uppsala University, 27th May-29th May 2019.

• Tropmet-2019, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, 11th to 14th December 2019.

• International Conference on Paleoclimate Changes (ICPC) 2020, 9-10 July 2020, VIT, India.

• International Webinar on Climate Change and Extremes, Department of Physics, Assam University, Silchar, September 11-12, 2020.

• Virtual Symposium by the International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC) Community, 5-9 October 2020.

• IBS Conference on High-resolution Earth System Modeling, Busan, South Korea, 12-14 October 2020.

• The 45th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop Virtual, October 20–22, 2020.

• The November 2020 around-the-clock International Verification Methods Workshop Online (2020-IVMW-O). 

• The 4th CommOCEAN international conference (CommOCEAN 2020), 1-2 December 2020 

• Workshop on Indian Ocean Variability and Teleconnections, ICTP, March 15-17, 2021

• SEA'S Improving Scientific Software conference and tutorial, March 22 - March 26, 2021 (Virtual). 

• JOINT ECMWF/OCEANPREDICT workshop on advances in ocean data assimilation, 17 May 2021 to 20 May 2021.

• EUMETSAT and NOAA NESDIS STAR's 2nd international Operational Satellite Oceanography (OSO) Symposium was held in a virtual format on 25-27 May 2021.

• 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium, June 7 – 10, 2021.

• ECMWF follow-on event for the workshop on machine learning for numerical weather predictions and climate services for Member and Cooperating States, 14-15 June 2021.

• The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop, 20 - 25 June 2021

• 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences, 3–17 September 2021, Virtual.

• Multi-annual to Decadal Climate Predictability in the North Atlantic-Arctic, 20-22 September 2021, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen.

• Using dynamical systems theory to understand climate variability and extremes, 4-5 October, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Workshop on ISIMIP data for the study of impacts of compound climate events, Uppsala, 21-22 March 2022.

• Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7) 22-26 March 2022, New Delhi, India.

• SEA'S Improving Scientific Software conference and tutorial 2022, April 4-8, 2022 (Virtual). 

• Celsius symposium: Celsius’ weather observations 300 years, The Humanities Theatre, Thunbergsvägen 3C, Uppsala, 5 September 2022.

• Open Science and Your Career (hybrid seminar), September 8th 2022, Uppsala University.

• International Atmospheric Rivers Conference, October 10-14, 2022, Santiago, Chile (participated virtually).

• SULF Doctoral Candidate Association's 2022 Contact Day, on 7 November in Västerås, Sweden.

• National Symposium "TROPMET-2023", Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) Jaipur Chapter and Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra in coordination with Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur.

• International Atmospheric Rivers Conference 2024, June 24-27, 2024, Centre for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093. 

• 6th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences, September 16-20, 2024 (Virtual).

• "Frontiers in Machine Learning for Weather Forecasting", by Joel Oskarsson and organised by RISE as part of their Learning Machines Seminar series on November 7, 2024 (Online).

• AMS Webinar on "Role of AI in Monitoring Climate and Forecasting Extreme Events" (November 7, 2024).

• "Understanding the onset and termination of El Niño" Will Drennan, University of Miami, RSMAS, 27 November 2024.

• Half-day workshop on "Extreme weather events in the mid and high latitudes", Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, 27th February 2025. 

• The 7th NOAA AI Workshop focusing on generative AI (GenAI) in Earth and space sciences, March 3, 2025 (11:00–16:30 Eastern Time, virtual*).

• CMIP Workshop series, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, spring 2025.

• CLIMES Interdisciplinary School on Impacts of Climate Extremes, 16-19 June 2025, Uppsala, Sweden.

• ML for Ocean Modelling, University of Reading (online), organised by NCAS, NOC, BAS, Met Office, and ECMWF (June 24-25, 2025). 

• The opening ceremony of ESA Phi-Lab Sweden and a conference programme, RISE, Stockholm, Sweden, 6 August 2025.

• EGU Peer Review Training, 8, 15, and 29 September 2025.

• International NAWDIC Workshop 2025, 15 - 17 September 2025 and Met.3D Training Workshop, 18 September in Karlsruhe (Germany) and online.

• AI for weather and climate preparedness: from European vision to real-world impact, conference, organised by ECMWF, with the support of DG CNECT and in media partnership with Science|Business, 2 October 2025 (online).

• 7th NOAA AI Hybrid Workshop – Generative AI for Earth and Space Science Applications, September 16-17, 2025.

• CNDS workshop - Pathways forward for CNDS in a changing academic and geopolitical landscape, October 13, 2025, Geocentrum, Uppsala University

• Swedish e-Science Academy 2025, 15-16 October 2025, Umeå, Sweden. 

• NAISS User Forum 2025, 21-22 October 2025, Online.

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• Actively participated in many more seminars, webinars, and lectures, which were not included here.

• 11/2017 Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. 

• 12/2020 CEFO Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, "The Rivers in the Sky - key features for understanding extreme hydro-meteorological Events", CEFO – The Center for Environment and Development Studies Research Forum, Uppsala University, Uppsala.

• Open/Public PhD defense presentation at Hambergsalen, the department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 26th February 2025.

• Presented my research several occasions during the met-seminars and the end-of-semesters presentations during 2018-2025 in LUVAL, the department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• 05/2022 Combined presentation of my Introductory essay and ATTC pedagogical course seminar on "Rivers in the sky - Atmospheric rivers and extreme hydrometeorological events", Uppsala University, Uppsala.

• Meditation, yoga, reading books and magazines, learning new languages, travelling and photography, researching spiritual and historical aspects, online classes, documentaries, etc.

• Learning new programming languages, software, and coding & debugging. 

• Walking, swimming, cycling, running and sports. 

• Exploring science and spirituality, enjoying nature and seasons.

• Working for science and society.

• Exploring ancient scripts, knowledge, wisdom, and spirituality. 

• An active member of different scientific forums and volunteer with various scientific organizations. 

• Telugu, English, Tamil (elementary), Hindi (Intermediate), Sanskrit (Intermediate), Russian (beginner), Swedish (beginner)

• Active member of CEFO and CCL at NRHU, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Represented the Uppsala University's Quality advisory board, Scholarship board, and Centre for Science and Technology Studies.

• Member of the outreach working group, the Young Earth System Scientists community (YESS) (https://www.yess-community.org/members/community/venugopalrt/)