Saurav Kumar

Saurav Kumar

Former TWRI Faculty Fellow

Saurav Kumar, Ph.D., was a 2021 TWRI Faculty Fellow and an assistant professor at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. He is based in El Paso, Texas. There, he leads the water system dynamics modeling and resilience research program.

His research program concentrates on holistic water systems modeling with an emphasis on how to integrate remotely sensed data and enable convergence among different domains involved. Saurav's past and current research have been in water resources data acquisition, modeling, analysis and presentation. He has also developed several web-based platforms for modeling and analysis.

He received his doctorate from Virginia Tech and master's degree from a joint program by NTU, Singapore and Stanford. Before joining Texas A&M, has worked at the University of Texas at El Paso and in Singapore.