RAJAGOPALAN BALAJI
A.  PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION 
Kurukshetra University, India, B. Tech. (with honors) in Civil Engineering, 1989
Indian Statistical, Calcutta, India, M. Tech. (with honors) in Operations Research and Quality Reliability, 1991
Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, PhD in Civil Engineering (Stochastic Hydroclimatology), 1995

B. APPOINTMENTS
2000 (Aug) - present	Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder.
2001 (June) – present	Fellow Co-operative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.  
2000 (Aug) – present 	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute (IRI), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, NY
1997 (July) – present	Research Assistant Professor, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1999 (July) – 2000 (August) 	Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute (IRI), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, NY
1997 (July) – 1999 (June)  	Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, NY
1995 (April) – 1997(June)	Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, NY
 1991 (Oct) – 1995 (April)	Graduate Research Assistant, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT

C. HONORS AND AWARDS
Participated in the 15th Annual Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, 
	CA, Nov 6 – 8, 2003.
Department Young Researcher Award, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engg., University of Colorado, 2003
Distinguished Utah State University Dissertation in Engineering: 1993-1995
Utah State University nomination for the Council of Graduate School’s Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1995
Nominated for the 1996 Lorenz G. Straub award for the most meritorious thesis in hydraulics and hydrology and
finished in the top three.

D. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Stochastic Hydrology and Hydroclimatology; Nonparametric functional estimation techniques (probability density Functions, regression, scenarios generation, forecasting); Understanding low frequency climate variability and its signatures on regional hydrology; Incorporating climate information in water resources/hydrologic decision making; Understanding spatio-temporal variability in Indian summer monsoon; Stochastic modeling of hurricane tracks; Nonlinear Dynamics - recovering dynamics from data; Bayesian techniques for optimal combination of information from multiple sources and decision making.

E. PUBLICATIONS
(i) Publications most closely related to the proposed project
Young-Il Moon, B. Rajagopalan, and U. Lall., Estimation of Mutual Information Using Kernel Density Estimators, Physica Review E, 52(n3B), 2318-2321, 1995.
Rajagopalan, B., U.Lall and D.G. Tarboton, A Nonhomogeneous Markov Model for Daily Precipitation Simulation, 
ASCE, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 1(1), 33-40, 1996.
Rajagopalan, B., U. Lall, and M. A. Cane, Anomalous ENSO occurrences: an alternate view, Journal of Climate, 10(9), 2351-2357,1997.
Rajagopalan, B., and U. Lall, Nearest Neighbor Local Polynomial Estimation of Spatial Surfaces, Spatial Interpolation Comparison Contest 1997, Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, 2(2), 48-57, 1998.
Rajagopalan, B., and U. Lall, A Nearest Neighbor Bootstrap Resampling Scheme for Resampling Daily Precipitation and other Weather Variables,Water Resources Research, 35(10), 3089-3101, 1999.
Rajagopalan, B., U. Lall, and S. Zebiak, Optimal Categorical Climate Forecasts through Multiple GCM Ensemble Combination and Regularization, Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1792 – 1811, 2002
Neuman, D., B. Rajagopalan and E. Zagona, A regression model for daily maximum stream temperature (in press) ASCE Journal of Environmental Engg, 2002
Saouma, V., E. Hansen, B. Rajagopalan, Statistical and 3D Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Schlegeis Dam, Proceedings of the Sixth ICOLD Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Salzburg, Austria, Oct 17 - 19, 2001
 (ii) Other significant publications
KrishnaKumar, K., B. Rajagopalan, and M.A. Cane, On the weakening relationship between the monsoon and ENSO, Science, 284, 2156-2159, 1999.
Rajagopalan, B., E. Cook, U. Lall, B. Ray, Temporal Variability of ENSO-drought association in the South West US, Journal of Climate, 13, 4244-4255, 2000.
Tourre, Y., B. Rajagopalan, and Y. Kushnir, Dominant patterns of climate variability in the Atlantic ocean region during the last 136 years, Journal of Climate, 12, 2285-2289,1999.
Phillips, J., B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane, and C. Rosenzweig, The Role of ENSO in determining climate and maize yield variability in the US cornbelt, International Journal of Climatology, 19, 877-888,1999.
Rajagopalan, B., M. E. Mann and U. Lall, A multivariate frequency-domain approach to long-lead climatic forecasting, Weather and Forecasting, 13(1), 58-74, 1998.

F. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Member, The American Geophysical Union
Member, Precipitation Committee, AGU Hydrology section.
Reviewer, Water Resources Research, Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Climate, Tellus, NSF proposals.
Organized a session titled Low frequency climate variability signatures on regional hy drometeorological variables - implications to hydrologic forecasting and planning at the Spring meeting of AGU, Boston, May, 1998.

G. COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS
(i) Collaborators
Clark, M., CIRES/Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Kushnir, Y., Columbia Univ. at NYC; K. Krishna Kumar, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India; Lall U., Columbia Univ. at NYC; Ray, A., CDC-NOAA/Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Zagona, E., CADWES/Univ. of Colorado at Boulder   

(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, NY, Mark Cane, Columbia University, NY

(iii) Thesis Advisor 
David Neumann, Stetson Engineers, San Rafael, CA, USA; James Prairie, USBR/CADSWES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Katrina Grantz, CADSWES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Nkrintra Singhrattna, Public Works Department, Bangkok, Thailand.

(iv) Advisor to Research Associates

Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; K. Krishna Kumar, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO