• 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 Centre (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 -  Present | 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

• Member of the UU Junior Faculty and Postdoc Association

• Member of ML4OM; NAWDIC

• IOC-ODC International Forum for Young Marine Scientists.

• Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)

• The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

• Bolin-centre-for-climate-research

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

• 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/)

• 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)

• Sep 2018 - 2025: Atmospheric Dynamics and Synoptic Meteorology (1ME424), 10 credits, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. 

• Sep 2018 - 2022: Statistics and Data analysis methods (1HY013), 5 credits, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Sep 2018 - 2022: Observe, analyse, and present weather (1ME423), 5 credits, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Course Co-ordinator: CEFO PhD-course Spring 2021: Climate Change Leadership – Actors and Strategies for Societal Transitions (FTN0242), 5 credits, CEMUS, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Jun 2009 – May 2011: Junior Lecturer in Physics & Computer Science, M.R. Junior College, M.R. Educational Institutes, Tirupati, India.

PhD 

• K.Venkatramana, Fellow and Area Convenor, Centre for Climate Modelling, TERI.

• Josephine Veronica, INCOIS.

Bachelors and Masters

• 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”

• Soumili CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), Pune:

• Sumit CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), Pune: 

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

• Scientific software, such as TECA, a Bayesian framework for parallel data analytics on large-scale systems, and IPART, which detects and analyses atmospheric rivers.

• Using Stan, a sophisticated statistical modelling tool that uses Bayesian inference, allows for more accurate and interpretable results in complex data scenarios.

• Experience using numerical models such as EC-Earth, MOM, NEMO, WRF, CROCO, GISS GCM-ROCKE-3D, etc., and using ESMVal-Tool for model validation.

• Data assimilation using AI, Data-driven modelling, AI models and emulators for Climate and Weather studies, digital twins, coupling ESMs with AI, and LAMs.

• Stochastic weather generator, analogue methods, dynamical system theory, extreme value theory, large deviation theory and statistics for large-scale uncertainty estimation in complex and stochastic dynamical systems.

• Experience working in large systems with shared development and version control tools such as Meld, Git, SVN, and GitHub, and with data repositories such as Zenodo, Figshare, PANGAEA, and SND. 

• Experience in handling large datasets from NASA Earth Data, EUMETSAT, ESA, ECMWF, NOAA, Copernicus Data Store (CDS), APDRC, CMIP, ISIMIP, NEX-GDDP-CMIP6, CERES, and CORDEX, etc., and different file formats like GRIB, NetCDF, Binary, JSON, MD, 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.

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

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

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

• Porting/GPU acceleration of Earth system models, Quantum computing, AI/Agentic CLIs, Climate and Weather GPTs.

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

• Enhanced the EC-Earth 3 model by replacing the legacy static snow scheme in LPJ-GUESS with a fully dynamical snow scheme to improve land-atmosphere feedback simulations.

• Developed a Python framework to calculate greenhouse gas fluxes using EC-Earth 3 outputs and remap/regrid ocean fluxes from NEMO/PISCES to the IFS grid and map carbon flux over global estuaries and marginal ice zones over the Arctic.

• Prepared and analysed DIC (fgCO2) flux data (direct and indirect) from multiple EC-Earth sensitivity long-time simulations for inputs to the AI Emulator in the EU-greenfeedback project during normal years and years with extreme events.

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

Earth System and Climate Feedback Modelling

• EU Horizon GreenFeedback Project: Leveraging the European Earth System Model (EC-Earth3) to quantify global climate–carbon cycle feedbacks and evaluate the direct impacts of extreme weather events on greenhouse-gas budgets

• Model Remapping and Flux Integration: Remapping and regridding ocean carbon and energy fluxes from the NEMO/PISCES ocean grid to the IFS atmospheric grid across complex environments, including global estuaries and Arctic marginal ice zones

• Biogeochemical Land Feedbacks: Implementing dynamical snow schemes in LPJ-GUESS within the EC-Earth3 framework to refine and improve land-atmosphere feedback coupling

Numerical Modelling, AI/ML Emulators and Data Fusion

• Hybrid and Emulator Modelling: Extensive experience developing statistical, machine learning, and deep learning emulators to accelerate multiscale weather and climate downscaling, parameterization, and forecasting

• Uncertainty Quantification: Applying Bayesian inference and probabilistic approaches to climate modeling for parameter estimation, error correction, and uncertainty quantification

• S2S Forecast Bias Correction: Utilizing large model ensembles combined with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to bias-correct and enhance subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts

• Parallel Data Analytics (HPC): Developing custom Bayesian and image-processing object-tracking algorithms implemented on parallel computing architectures (C++, MPI+X, OpenMP, and GPUs) wrapped in Python for high-performance processing of multi-terabyte datasets

Atmospheric Dynamics and Extreme Hydrometeorological Events

• Atmospheric River (AR) Tracking: Developed Python-based, high-performance tracking algorithms to identify, monitor, and analyze the lifecycle, length, and spatial attributes of Atmospheric Rivers globally on an hourly scale

• Thermodynamic Analysis of Precipitation: Investigating the coupled role of atmospheric dynamics (integrated water vapor transport) and thermodynamics in cloud formation, convective systems, and extreme precipitation events

• Air-Sea Interaction: Quantifying the impact of air-sea surface heat and moisture fluxes on the development, intensity, and land-falling impact of Atmospheric Rivers

Oceanography, Satellite Remote Sensing and Fieldwork

• In-Situ Research Cruises: Participated in scientific cruises across the Bay of Bengal, gathering and analyzing in-situ physical oceanographic and meteorological data (wind, humidity, subsurface temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton) using instruments such as CTDs, XBTs, and XCTDs

• Buoy Network Analysis: Ingesting and processing real-time in-situ data from the Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (GTMBA) and the OMNI buoy network to improve tropical weather forecasting and climate projections

• Satellite Profile Upscaling: Developing ML models to improve the vertical resolution of atmospheric relative humidity profiles from geostationary satellites and GPS Radio Occultation (GPSRO) data

• Flux Dataset Evaluation: Validating and statistically evaluating global, high-resolution hybrid and blended surface radiation and ocean flux datasets (e.g., MODIS-CERES, CORE-II, and TropFlux) required to force General Circulation Models (GCMs)

• 2026: CodeRefinery Workshop, September 22–24 and September 29–October 1, 2026

• 2026: The Copernicus Arctic Hub - Data and Tools for the Arctic, 22 & 24 September 2026

• 2026: FLEXWEB workshop, presented by Marina Dütsch from the University of Vienna, 16th September, Ostrom at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Albanovägen 28) (online).

• 2026: The 15th UNESCO/IOC-ODC Training Course on Ocean Dynamics and Ocean Models held from September 1-11, 2026, in Qingdao, China

• 2026: CIRCUS Interdisciplinary Summer School 2026, UUniFI, Uppsala University, 12-14 August 2026.

• 2026: DKRZ Python Course for Geoscientists, 02-06 February 2026

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

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

• 2025: Ocean Sessions - Water Pollution, Tools and insights from ocean data, The Copernicus Marine team, December 16-18, 2025 (Online)

• 2022: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 2017: Coursework on Relativity and Tensor analysis, Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Astrophysics at Novosibirsk State University, Russia, in 2017.

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

• 2017: 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.

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

• 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. 

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

• 2026: STINT Capstone Award

• 2025: Named among the top 100 most-cited researchers in the "Meteorological Application" journal, RMetS, for August 2024, “Discover Cities” (Springer Nature) for the year 2025, and “Discover Atmosphere” (Springer Nature) for the year 2026.

• 2025: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship 2025-2026, nominated by the KVA and STINT, Sweden.

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

• 2025: Best Reviewer award, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Springer, 2025.

• 2023: Best paper presentation award, entitled "Climate variability observed and forecasted over Chittoor District”, One Day International Conference On Statistical Applications For Data Science, Social, Biological, Medical, Agricultural, Management, Engineering, Mathematical And Computer Sciences, Department of Statistics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA,  February 17th, 2023.

• 2021: Best Reviewer Award, Oceanologia, Elsevier, 2021.

• 2019: Best Paper Presentation Award for the paper titled "Need for a better Indian summer monsoon rainfall prediction in planning for sustainable development" during the 4th ISSE National Conference, INAC 2019.

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

• 2015: Best paper presentation award at DST-­SERB school on “Fundamentals of Oceanic Processes and Modelling”, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT-­Delhi, May 19th - Jun 11th, 2015.

• 2012: University topper in the master's degree (Space Technology & Applications), Dept. of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

• 2010: Achieved 4th rank in the Master of Technology (Space Technology and Applications) entrance examination.

• 2009: Alumni award for being the topper in SVPCET Engineering College (Bachelor of Technology) in 2009.

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

Reviewer

• IPCC Assessment Reports

• GACR (Czech Science Foundation) research grants program

• International Journal of Climatology, RMetS

• Oceanologia, Elsevier 

• Geophysical Research Letters, AGU 

• Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, AMS 

• Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, Science 

• Earth System Dynamics, Advances in Science & Research, Ocean Sciences Journals, Copernicus/EGU/EMS

• Springer Nature: npj Geoinformatics, Scientific Reports, Climate Dynamics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, BMC Research Notes, Pure and Applied Geophysics, and Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology, Marine Systems & Ocean Technology. 

• Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers

• AIP Advances

• Climate, Earth, Geosciences, Applied Sciences, Sustainability, and Remote Sensing Journals of MDPI

• Guest editor for the Special Issue “Atmospheric River Dynamics and Predictions”, MDPI Atmosphere

• Guest editor for the Special Issue “Research on Urban Climate Extremes Under Climate Change”, MDPI Urban Science.

My peer reviews - Web of Science Researcher Profiles 

https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7771-1693

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

• 2026: UUniFI Circus call for support for research networks seminar

• 2026: Seminar on "Own Your Career: How to Succeed in an Uncertain Job Market" (online).

• 2026: Learning Machines Seminar: Aurora - A foundation model of the Earth system

• 2026: UU Junior Faculty's 20-year celebration seminar - and other upcoming events

• 2026: ParaChute: Improving Convection and Turbulence in High-Resolution Weather Models

• 2026: Moisture sources of the heavy precipitation event in Central Europe in September 2024, brown-bag lunch presentation with visiting researcher Marina Dütsch from the University of Vienna, Wednesday, the 16th of September at 12.00 in Ostrom (SRC, Albanovägen 28).

• 2026: HEATWISE Sweden, a multi-year research project by the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, investigating how indoor heatwaves affect health, sleep, and the indoor climate in Swedish residential buildings. 

• 2026: UN Ocean Decade International Conference on Ocean Literacy, Qingdao (September 3-4, 2026), held in Laoshan District under the theme "Caring for the Blue, Safeguarding the Future".

• 2026: Grant Writing Workshop kick-off seminar, January 15, 2026, Junior Faculty, UU.

• 2026: Atmospheric rivers over Scandinavia: Pathways and precipitation, CLIMES seminar, 9th April 2026, UU.

• 2026: Workshop on Gridded climate and weather prediction codes on GPUs, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 21 April 2026.

• 2026: ClimTip Webinar Series (online).

• 2026: IPCC-AR7-WGI-FOD ECR Group Review Webinars

• 2026: 9th ENES HPC Workshop, SMHI, 19-21 May, 2026.

• 2026: NAWDIC Status Meeting - 20 May 2026 (online).

• 2026: The Crafoord Prize Symposium in Geosciences: Earth system impacts of climate pollutants, KVA, Stockholm, May 20, 2026.

• 2026: Circus Annual Interdisciplinary Garden Party, 21 May, 2026.

• 2026: IPCC ECR Group Review Training Sessions (online), 2026.

• 2026: StanCon 2026 International Conference on Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic Programming, 17-21 August 2026, Uppsala, Sweden

• 2026: HAMLET-PHYSICS Conference, Copenhagen, August 19 - 21, 2026 (online).

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

• 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*).

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

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

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

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

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

• 2025: 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).

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

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

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

• 2025: Funding possibilities for collaboration with South Korea and Japan, Blåsenhus, UU, 4th November 2025.

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

• 2024: "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).

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

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

• 2023: 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.

• 2023: One Day International Conference On Statistical Applications For Data Science, Social, Biological, Medical, Agricultural, Management, Engineering, Mathematical And Computer Sciences, Department of Statistics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA, February 17th, 2023.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 2021: Workshop on Indian Ocean Variability and Teleconnections, ICTP, March 15-17, 202

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

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

• 2021: EUMETSAT and NOAA NESDIS STAR's 2nd International Operational Satellite Oceanography (OSO) Symposium was held virtually on 25-27 May 2021.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 2021: Using dynamical systems theory to understand climate variability and extremes, 4-5 October, 2021, Department  of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 2013: 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.

• 2012: 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.

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

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

• 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.

• The 15th UNESCO/IOC-ODC Training Course on Ocean Dynamics and Ocean Models held from September 1-11, 2026, in Qingdao, China.

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

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

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

• 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. 

• Presented my research on several occasions during the met-seminars and the end-of-semester presentations from 2018 to 2026 in LUVAL, the department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)