Manmeet Singh
Manmeet Singh is Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA. He served as a Staff Scientist at the nodal national lab on weather and climate in India, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India for 11 years from 2013-2024. He was also a Fulbright-Kalam fellow at the Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin in 2021. His research interests include climate solutions to the problems on land, ocean and atmosphere using mathematical models, particularly numerical weather prediction systems. He is especially interested in AI/ML techniques, causal approaches, recurrence plots, complex networks and non-linear time series analysis for solving grand challenges in Earth System Science. He is an experienced climate modeller having contributed to the IITM Earth System Model simulations towards the IPCC AR6 report. Together with his PhD co-advisor, he developed and coupled the aerosol module of the IITM Earth System Model. He is active in teaching and has given invited talks at venues such as the NASA/UAH Seminar series, Microsoft India podcast among others. His PhD focussed on the impacts of the proposals suggesting volcanic eruptions as an analogue of solar geoengineering to halt climate change. Recently, his work has shown substantial improvements in high-impact short-range numerical weather predictions using deep learning and he has also developed novel physics inspired deep learning algorithms for high-resolution downscaling.
Areas of Expertise
Earth System Science and Climate
Current Research Programs & Projects
Development of high-resolution urban digital twins
Best Poster Award - 10th Annual Research Symposium, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (2024)
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship - Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin (2024 - 2026)
Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship for Doctoral Research - United States India Educational Foundation (2021)
Prof DR Sikka award for the best research paper - Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India (2020)
Special Prize - Smart India Hackathon (2020)
Most Interactive Pavillion award - 106th Indian Science Congress (2019)
Silver Jubilee award for the best research paper - Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India (2018)
Best Journalist at Udghosh - Hindu College, University of Delhi (2013)
Shakuntala Juneja Memorial Scholarship for academic excellence - Thapar University Patiala (2010)
Member, International Technical Advisory Committee, American Society of Civil Engineering International Conference on Challenges and Innovations for Sustainable Smart Cities (CISSC 2025) (2024)
Editorial Board Member, Discover Cities, Springer Nature (2024)
Associate Editor, Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Springer Nature (2024)
Mentor, Team PINN Wheels, Geoscience Hackathon 2024, The University of Texas at Austin (2024)
Member, ScenarioMIP Advisory Group, IPCC CMIP7 (2023)
Member, International Association for Urban Climate (2021)
Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2021 - 2023)
Member, National committee member of Virtual Center on AI/ML/DL, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (2021 - 2024)