Upmanu Lall

Upmanu Lall is an Indian American engineer and the founding director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University in Tempe. He also has a faculty appointment as professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems within the College of Global Futures. Prior to joining ASU in January 2024, Lall was the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. He served as founding director of the Columbia Water Center. He studies how to solve water scarcity and how to predict and mitigate floods. In 2014, he was awarded the Henry Darcy Medal by the European Geosciences Union. He was named an American Geophysical Union Fellow in 2017 and their Walter Langbein Lecturer in 2022. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018, and has received the Arid Lands Hydrology and the Ven Te Chow Awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. In April 2021 he was named to the “Hot List of the world’s 1,000 top climate scientists” by Reuters.. In 2025, he received the Peter S. Eagleson Award from the American Geophysical Union Provided by Wikipedia