Naresh Devineni is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The City University of New York’s City College. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. He did his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University. He also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank for a brief period in 2009. He has diverse interests in hydro-climate modeling and extremes analysis, statistical and machine learning methods, water sustainability and risk assessment and water systems analysis. He is motivated by challenging problems interfacing human needs, engineering innovation and scientific advancement.
Naresh has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapter, two full datasets, eleven opinion articles and white papers and more than 90 conference presentations. He has been invited as a panelist and speaker for more than 40 important panel discussions and meetings at international, domestic and university-wide conferences.
Naresh’s research has been supported by grants from major U.S. federal agencies like Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Regional Transportation Center (UTRC), University Research Foundation (RFCUNY) and OAKRIDGE National Labs (ORAU).
At the City University of New York’s City College, Naresh teaches four courses, Civil Engineering Data Analysis, Civil Engineering Decision and Systems Analysis, Water Resources Systems Analysis and Advanced Data Analysis in the Civil Engineering department. He also conducts summer boot camps on statistics and water management for high school students as part of the CREST’s High School
program.
Naresh is the creator of a data science blog www.dataanalysisclassroom.com where people of all backgrounds and ages can learn data analysis, probability, and statistics in a fun and intuitive way without the technical lingo. The blog currently has 100,000 users from across the world and receives an average of 5000 page views per month.
Naresh served as a member of the US CLIVAR Panel on Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI). The PPAI Panel’s mission is to foster improved practices in the provision, validation and uses of climate information and forecasts through coordinated participation within the US and international climate science and applications communities. The Panel is comprised of up to 12 experts from the scientific community, each serving a 4-year term.
Naresh also serves as a member of the Technical Committee for special project on the Effect of Climate Change on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structures and Infrastructure Systems led by the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society for Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE). The goals of this Special Project are to review available information on climate change issues and identify methodologies and tools that would help the civil engineering profession address the impacts of climate change on the life cycle performance, safety, and risk of structures and infrastructure systems.
In 2015, he served as a member of the Technical committee for the development of the Freshwater Health Index led by Conservation International. The Freshwater Health Index assesses the status of specific benefits that people receive from freshwater ecosystems, using a large and diverse set of information on ecological, biophysical and socio-economic characteristics. Naresh has also served as the Chair of the Graduate Research Award committee for Natural Hazards Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Naresh serves as a reviewer for the most prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, ASCE’s Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Water and Climate, Journal of American Water Resources Association, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and Climate Dynamics. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) journal. He also served as a reviewer for NSF both in panels and as ad-hoc.
Naresh has been honored with several scholarly and professional awards including, the Grove School of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service in 2019, the prestigious Early CAREER Award from the Department of Energy in 2017, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award by Oakridge Associated Universities in 2016, and the CUNY Recognition for Outstanding Scholars Achievements in 2015 and 2014. He was also the sole nominee from CCNY for the prestigious national Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. The student design team that he mentored won First Place in EPA’s National competition for campus rainworks challenge in 2016. In 2012, he received the Emerging Scholars Award finalist recognition from the Global Water Forum for his discussion paper on securing water food and energy for India. He is also one of the recipients of the Outstanding student paper award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting for his graduate research, an honor given to the top 5% students in the Hydrology Section.
A full academic curriculum vitae of Naresh Devineni can be found here.
In the News
Developing a Drought Index – Interview of Dr. Naresh Devineni by Hemant Kumar
Bridging the Past, Present, and Future of Climate – Dr. Naresh Devineni
India’s new economic reforms and challenges ahead
U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by changing climate – research
Governance of Long-Duration Floods [US CLIVAR]
City College-led experts develop flood prediction model [CCNY News; also appeared in Science Daily]
Major U.S. Cities Are at Risk for Climate-Related Water Shortage: Report [Boomberg]
Columbia University Featured Scientist [Columbia Water Center and Earth Institute]