Dev Niyogi

Dev Niyogi is a professor, UNESCO Chair on Open Sustainable Innovative Solutions in AI, Water, and Cities; and William Stamps Farish Chair in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Jackson School of Geosciences and the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering. He is also affiliated with Oden Institute of Computational Sciences and Engineering, and the UT Center for Space Research. His research focuses on understanding and enabling improved prediction and mitigation of weather hazards such as heavy rains, urban thunderstorms, landfalling hurricanes, and extreme heat. He is the PI for the The University of Texas Extreme Weather and Urban Sustainability "TExUS" Lab and co-lead for the UT-City CoLab. 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).