Rajib Maity

Prof. (Dr.) Rajib Maity is a professor and AK Singh Chair faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, UK. He is currently heading the School of Water Resources at IIT Kharagpur as the Chairperson of the school. His research areas include Hydroclimatology, Climate Change Impact on Water Resources, Stochastic Hydrology, Analysis of Hydroclimatic Extremes, Hydrologic Time Series Analyses and Forecasting, Sea Level Rise, Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology, and AI/ML applications in Hydroclimatology. Apart from AK Singh Chair Faculty and Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, his other professional recognitions include Humboldt Fellowship (Experienced Researchers, Germany), James Rennell MoES Young Fellow (MoES, GoI) Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur), Prof. R. J. Garde Research Award (ISH, India), Emerging Leaders Fellowship (Australia), BOYSCAST Fellowship, IEI Young Engineers Award, DAAD Fellowship (Germany), International ICE WaRM Fellowship (Australia), and Prof. N. S. Govinda Rao Memorial Medal from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Prof. Maity has published two books and more than 235 research articles in different peer reviewed journals and conferences and chapters in books. Prof. Maity also serves as Guest Editor and Associate Editor of several international journals, including Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio Journal), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), etc. For recent updates, please visit https://facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~rajibmaity/.