I am Mukesh Kumar, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. I work with Prof. Tirtha Banerjee and Prof. James T. Randerson as my Ph.D. advisors. During my Ph.D. research, I have been working towards developing a framework for the mapping and modeling of fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
I obtained a Master of Technology in Climate Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where I conducted simulations of extremely heavy rainfall events over the Indian subcontinent.
I have a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) with honors in mechanical engineering with a focus on thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
My current research is focused on understanding the WUI, atmospheric turbulence, and modeling aspects of wildfires using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model.
Fun Fact
I love traveling and reading books.
Research Interests
- Land-atmosphere-fire interaction
- Fire-behavior modeling
- Atmospheric turbulence
- Wildland-urban interface (WUI)
