Dev Niyogi

Dev Niyogi is a PI for The University of Texas Extreme Weather and Urban Sustainability "TExUS" Lab and co-lead for the UT-City CoLab. His 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. He 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.

Niyogi has coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed papers for international journals and coedited two books (one recently 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, and TEDx Talk. Before joining The University of Texas at Austin in 2020, he was at Purdue, where he continues to be an Emeritus Professor, and was the State Climatologist for Indiana. 

Area(s) of Expertise:
Transportation Engineering

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Marine Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2000

Technical Interests:
Integrated models of travel demand, vehicle ownership, land use, crash counts and severities, energy use, emissions, and trade; roadway design and pricing; urban systems simulations;  energy and air quality; urban planning, regional science and spatial econometrics; survey design, data acquisition and analysis; connection between urban form and travel behaviors.

Awards:
Helmut E. Landsberg Award - American Meteorological Society (2023)
John E. "Brick" Elliott Centennial Endowed Professor-Fellow - Department of Geological Sciences (2021 - 2022)
Indiana Governors Team Award for Environmental Excellence - Indiana Department of Environmental Management (2018)

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