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Dr. Ved Prakash Singh

Dr. Ved Prakash Singh

Scientist & Head (Doppler Weather RADAR) Bhopal at India Meteorological Dept. Bhopal, MoES, Govt. of India

Dr. Ved Prakash is currently heading Doppler Weather Radar department of IMD Bhopal. He has 10 years of experience various aspects of meteorology like Satellite, AI, Climate Science and machine learning to name a few. He is qualified engineer in Comp. Sc. & Engg. From IIT BHU and Ph.D. in Advance Machine Learning from IIT Patna.

His current responsibilities include issuing severe weather warnings/Nowcast, briefing to media. He is also looking after Seismology unit and DRMS (hydrology) unit. He is nodal officer for climate change and human health committee.

He has keen interest in research and worked as co-principal investigator in few research studies focused on weather alert system and farming solutions. He has also written/edited 2 books on climate behaviour and NTFP. He proudly has 2 patents in his name regarding meteorological subjects. He was conferred with young scientist award and best paper award. He has got 10 research articles published in various reputed journals.