Welcome to my webpage I am a Ph.D. candidate in civil & environmental engineering (CEE) at the University of South Florida (USF). One fine morning of Aug. 2002, I found myself being transformed into color stripes on a "Tartan" when I started my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Later I moved to "Bulls" country, when my advisor, Prof. Saigal, left CMU and joined USF as the chairman of CEE.

Dr. Auroop Ganguly, Computational Sciences and Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Prof. Sunil Saigal, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida.

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of South Florida, Jan. 2003-present.
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. GPA: 4.0/4.0
B.Tech. (Hon.), Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, May 2001. GPA: 4.0/4.0 (The President of India Gold Medalist)

• Khan, S., A. R. Ganguly, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Saigal, D. J. Erickson, III, V. Protopopescu, and G. Ostrouchov (2006), Nonlinear statistics reveals stronger ties between ENSO and the tropical hydrological cycle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L24402, doi:10.1029/2006GL027941, 2006. [PDF]
• Khan, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Ganguly, A. R, Saigal, S., Erickson III, D. J., Protopopescu, V., and Ostrouchov, G., Evaluation of mutual information estimation methods for quantifying the dependence among short and noisy time series, Physical Review E, 76, 026209, 2007. [PDF]
• Khan, S., Kuhn, G., Ganguly, A. R., Erickson III, D. J., and Ostrouchov, G., Spatio-temporal variability of daily and weekly precipitation extremes in South America, Water Resources Research, 2007, Accepted.
• Kuhn, G., Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Branstetter, M., Geospatial-temporal dependence among weekly precipitation extremes with applications to observations and climate model simulations in South America, Advances in Water Resources, 2007, Accepted.
• Samatova, N. F., Branstetter, M. L., Ganguly, A. R., Hettich, R., Khan, S., Guruprasad, K., Li, J., Ma, X., Pan, C., Shoshani, A., and Yoginath, S., High performance statistical computing with parallel R: Applications to biology and climate modelling, Journal of Physics: Conference series, 46, 505-509, 2006. [PDF]
• Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Saigal, S., Detection and predictive modeling of chaos in finite hydrological time series, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 12, 41-53, 2005. [PDF]
• Khan, S., and Saigal, S., Remeshing Facet-based Models Using Parameterization (submitted to International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering).

• Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Gupta, A., Data Fusion and Data Mining of Numerical Information for Enhanced Decision Support, Springer's Handbook on Decision Support Systems, 2007.
• Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Gupta, A., Creating knowledge about the future through business forecasting and planning, Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Inc., Pub. date: July 2005. [PDF]
• Ganguly, A. R., Gupta, A., and Khan, S., Data Mining and Decision Support for Business and Science, Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Idea Group Inc., Pub. date: June 2005. [PDF].

• Kuhn, G., Khan, S., and Ganguly, A. R., New approaches for extreme value analysis in large-scale geospatial-temporal data with applications to observed and climate-model simulated precipitation in South America, 2006 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2006.
• Fuller, C., Sabesan, A., Khan, S., Kuhn, G., Ganguly, A. R., Erickson III, D. J., and Ostrouchov, G., Quantification and visualization of the human impacts of anticipated precipitation extremes in South America, 2006 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2006.
• Branstetter, M. L., Erickson III, D. J., Ghan, S., Ganguly, A. R., Khan, S., Hydrology in the IPCC simulations, 11^th Annual CCSM workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, June 2006.
• Khan, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., and Ganguly, A. R., Computing mutual information based nonlinear dependence among noisy and finite geophysical time series, 2005 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2005.
• Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Saigal, S., Impact of noise and seasonality on the detection and nonlinear prediction of chaos from finite river-flow time series, 2005 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2005.
• Ganguly, A. R., Khan, S., Erickson III, D. J., Katz, R. W., Ostrouchov, G., Protopopescu, V. A., Bandyopadhyay, S., and Saigal, S., Multivariate dependence in complex systems, 5th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, UIUC, May 16-19, 2005.
• Khan, S., Ganguly, A. R., and Saigal, S., Nonlinear Dynamics and Prediction in Hydrology, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Meeting, Denver, October 24-27, 2004 (INVITED)
• Ganguly, A. R., and Khan, S., Weather Economics - The Business of Uncertainty, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Meeting, Denver, October 24-27, 2004 (INVITED).

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