dr. ir. Akash KoppaAkash Koppa specializes in large scale hydrology, land surface modeling, remote sensing and hydropower.https://www.giis.ugent.be/bw/environment/en/research/h-cel/staff/akash-koppa.htmhttps://www.giis.ugent.be/logo.png
dr. ir. Akash Koppa
Akash Koppa specializes in large scale hydrology, land surface modeling, remote sensing and hydropower.
Bio
I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow, working in the Down2Earth project, at the Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Research team: Hydrology and Climate, Ghent University. A hydrologist and civil engineer by training, I have worked on large scale hydrology, high resolution atmosphere and land surface modeling, and stochastic optimization. My doctoral thesis funded by NASA's Applied Sciences program, focused on developing a decision support system for hydropower optimization in datascarce regions, leveraging numerical weather prediction models and remote sensing data. Specifically, I developed novel frameworks for improving seasonal forecasts in data-scarce regions by combining remote sensing and land surface models. I have also worked on coupled atmospheric-hydrologic modeling at regional scales for my Master's thesis.