Main background - Applied Statistics
CEWS focus - Climate and Weather Extremes and Natural Hazards
DSCS focus - Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Modeling, Physics-Guided Data Science

Evan Kodra is a 2014 Ph.D. alumnus of in the SDS Lab. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Tennessee. He is currently the Big Data Lead at EnergyPoints, a source energy intelligence startup located in Boston, MA. His research has been highlighted in Nature magazine, USA Today, and MSNBC, among many others.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kodra, E., and A.R. Ganguly (2014): Asymmetry of projected increases in extreme temperature distributions. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 4, 5884.

Ganguly, A.R., Kodra, E., et al. (2014): Toward enhanced understanding and projections of climate extremes using physics-guided data mining techniques. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discuss., 1, 51-96.

Parish, E., Kodra, E., Steinhaeuser, K., and A.R. Ganguly (2012). Estimating future global per capita water availability based on changes in climate and population, Computers & Geosciences,42: 79-86. Most downloaded of recent articles in journal Computers and Geosciences

Kodra, E., Ghosh, S., and A.R. Ganguly, (2012): Evaluation of global climate models for Indian monsoon climatology. Environmental Research Letters 7, 014012, 7 pp., doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014012.

Kodra, E., Steinhaeuser, K.S., and A.R. Ganguly (2011): Persisting cold spells in the 21st-century warming environment. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L08705, 5 pp. Research Highlights in Nature and Nature Climate Change, (Selected) News: USA Today, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, Our Amazing Planet