Dev Niyogi
Affiliated Faculty, Earth and Energy Resources (EER) Graduate Program
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Space Research, Cockrell School of Engineering
Affiliate Faculty, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
William Stamps Farish Chair in Geology (Holder)
Mailcode: C1160
PI for the The University of Texas Extreme weather and Urban Sustainability "TExUS" Lab; and co-lead for the UT-City CoLab.
Research focus is on understanding and enabling improved prediction and mitigation of weather hazards such as heavy rains, urban thunderstorms, landfalling hurricanes, and extreme heat.
Dr. Niyogi has coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed papers for international journals, and coedited two books (one recent one on Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation). According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 28,000 times (h-index 84; i-10 index >290), and his work has been read over 200,000 times per Research Gate statistics. His work has been highlighted in various national and international popular press such as NPR, Wired, Fox News, CNN, National Geographic, Tedx Talk.
Before joining University of Texas at Austin in Summer 2020, he was at Purdue, and continues to be a Emeritus Professor, and was the State Climatologist for Indiana.
At University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Niyogi is also part of the Theme Organizing (Executive) Committee of the Planet Texas 2050, and part of the Ethical AI-Good Systems- Smart City initiative.
Areas of Expertise
Research Group: The University of Texas Extreme weather and Urban Sustainability "TExUS" Lab.
Helmut E. Landsberg Award - American Meteorological Society (2023)
William Stamps Farish Chair - Jackson School of Geosciences (2022)
John E. "Brick" Elliott Centennial Endowed Professor-Fellow - Department of Geological Sciences (2021 - 2022)
Visiting / Adjunct Professor - Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management at Indian Institute of Technology - Roorke, (2019)
Indiana Governors Team Award for Environmental Excellence - Indiana Department of Environmental Management (2018)
Adjunct Professor - Department of Environmental Sciences in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2016)
Chair, Provost Early Career Fellowship Search Committee, DGS/JSG (2022)
Topic Editor, Computational Urban Science, (2022)
Member, Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, U. S. Department of Energy (2022 - Present)
Elected Advisory Committee Member and Treasurer, International Association for Urban Climate, (2022 - Present)
Chair, Ad hoc Committee for Geoscience Graduate Studies Committee on Required Courses, JSG (2021)
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (2021)
Member, C-10 Recruitment and Retention Committee, UT Faculty Council (2021 - 2024)
Member, Departmental Name Change Committee, Department of Geological Sciences (2021 - 2022)
Member, Graduate Student Experience Committee, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (2021 - Present)
Member, Graduate Admission Reform Committee, CAEE (2021 - Present)
Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology, American Meteorological Society (2021 - 2023)
Member, Theme Organizing Committee (Executive Committee), Bridging Barrier Planet Texas 2050 (2020 - Present)
Member, Committee on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society (2020 - 2024)
Graduate Students
Harsh Kamath
(Supervisor)
Urban Climate and Renewable Energy
Caleb E Adams (Co-supervisor)
Rakshith Mallesh (Supervisor)
Xinxin Sui, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor)
Civil Engineering
Aria Chavoshi Boroujeni, Ph.D.
(Supervisor)
Civil Engineering
Ting-Yu Dai, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor)
Civil Engineering
Kwun Yip Fung, Ph.D., 2023
(Co-supervisor)
Jackson School of Geosciences
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduates interested in developing capstone project ideas, internships, or summer/academic research experience opportunities are encouraged to contact me for discussions and possible projects.
CoPI on a NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at UT.
Summer Interns
Abigail Bowering, Smith College, MA (2022)
Simone McFarlane, UNC Chapel Hill, NC (2022)
Trevor Brooks, Bridgewater College, MD (2022)
Academic Semester Interns
Laasya Khandavalli (Fall 2022)
Olga Tumanova (Fall 2022)
| Year | Semester | Course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Spring | GEO 371T | Climate Change Mitigation |
| 2024 | Spring | GEO 371T | Geohealth |
| 2024 | Spring | GEO 391 | Climate Change Mitigation |
| 2024 | Spring | GEO 391 | Geohealth |
| 2023 | Fall | GEO 398T | Supervised Teaching In Geo Sci |
| 2023 | Fall | GEO 303E | Earth In 2100-Wb |
| 2023 | Spring | GEO 303E | Earth In 2100-Wb |
| 2022 | Fall | GEO 303E | Earth In 2100-Wb |