Director (i/c)
Prof. (Dr.) K. P. Sudheer took charge as the 12th Director (i/c) of KSCSTE–JNTBGRI on 25th June 2024. He is also the Ex Officio Principal Secretary, Science & Technology Department; Executive Vice President of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE); and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000, his M.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1994, and his B.Tech. in Agricultural Engineering from Kerala Agricultural University in 1991. His research interests include hydrologic modelling, stochastic hydrology, hydrological forecasting, prediction in ungauged basins, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, irrigation water management, and the application of artificial neural networks (ANN) and fuzzy systems in hydrology and water resources, with a particular focus on knowledge extraction from and knowledge embedding in soft computing-based models. He has been serving as an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University, USA, since 2015, and at IIT Madras has held the positions of Professor (2013–present), Associate Professor (2009–2013), and Assistant Professor (2003–2009). He was a Visiting Faculty member at IIT Kanpur in 2003, a Scientist at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, from 1996 to 2002, an International Faculty in the Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology Programme at the University of Algarve, Portugal (2011), and a Visiting Research Scientist at Purdue University, USA (2012). He was relieved from the post on 24th October 2024