Prof. Ashutosh Sharma leads the EcoHydroLab at IIT Roorkee, where his group studies water, ecosystems, and climate through a blend of large-sample hydrology, machine learning, and process understanding. His work spans the development of pan-India hydrometeorological datasets, deep learning for streamflow and flood prediction, ecohydrology and ecosystem services, and dam safety and flood risk in data-scarce mountain environments.
Before joining IIT Roorkee, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Pennsylvania State University and a visiting researcher at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and McGill University. He serves on editorial boards of several leading hydrology journals and contributes to national and international expert committees on water resources and dam safety.