Biography

Menaka Revel is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in hydrological modeling, data assimilation, and remote sensing applications for large-scale water systems. His work focuses on integrating satellite observations such as altimetry and surface water extent into hydrodynamic and hydrological models to improve the accuracy of river discharge estimates and flood dynamics. He completed his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and previously worked as a researcher at the University of Tokyo, contributing to global freshwater modeling efforts. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada before joining our group as a postdoctoral scholar, where he developed hydrological models across Canada. Currently, he works on ultra-high-resolution hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling across the Great Lakes, Mekong, and Central Asian regions to advance model-data integration for understanding and predicting hydrological change.