Pramod Thupaki, Phd Email & Phone Number

Canada

Bangalore, India

Part of the Executive team; developing Computer Vision based products, company strategy and vision; creating successful proposals; and building international partnerships with universities and the manufacturing industry.

Victoria, Canada

Successfully implemented numerical models to increase marine safety, predict oil-spills, and predict ecological carrying capacity; worked with various levels of Canadian government, marine industry and academia.

Victoria, Bc

Technical Director CIOOS Pacific (2022 - Present)- Leading an inter-disciplinary R&D program in AI/ML, ocean & acoustic modeling - Advise and manage projects to design and deploy software and data products- Contributed to the development and implementation of the 5-year strategic plan at CIOOS- Managing internal and stakeholders of modeling and data products & built new relationshipsResearch Scientist | Hakai Institute (2016 - present)- Developed numerical ocean… Show more Technical Director CIOOS Pacific (2022 - Present)- Leading an inter-disciplinary R&D program in AI/ML, ocean & acoustic modeling - Advise and manage projects to design and deploy software and data products- Contributed to the development and implementation of the 5-year strategic plan at CIOOS- Managing internal and stakeholders of modeling and data products & built new relationshipsResearch Scientist | Hakai Institute (2016 - present)- Developed numerical ocean models for research and operational forecast- Published reports and co-authored papers in leading journals- Secured funding to drive research projectsNational and International collaborations- Leading the national collaborative program on Digital Twins of the Ocean for Canada- Contributed to several national and international working groups and reports Show less

Sidney, Bc

Created the framework for operational ocean models being used currently by the Department of Fisheries and Ocean Canada to forecast ocean currents; formulated a new spatial interpolation algorithm based on graph theory.

Victoria, Bc

Developed an Ocean Circulation model for Coastal British Columbia; set up an automated data processing pipeline for weather model data; this was the first time such a model was run on commercial cloud infrastructure (AWS EC2 instances) by the Department of Fisheries and Ocean Canada.

East Lansing, Michigan

Predicted the effect of outfalls on water quality off the coast of Chicago; project report was part of U. S. Congressional hearings in 2013 on the topic.

Developed and used an advanced 3D Ocean prediction model to simulate the fate and transport of bacteria around Southern Lake Michigan.

Taught technical writing fundamentals and conducted the lab component of the undergraduate course on Fluid Mechanics for the Dept. of Civil Engg.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Water Resources

Thesis title: Nearshore Hydrodynamics and the Fate and Transport of Indicator Bacteria in Lake Michigan: Field Experiments and Numerical.

Bachelor’S Degree, Ocean Engineering (Computational Solid Mechanics)