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Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy
Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy is currently in the fifth year of the PhD program in Sustainable Development and has varied research interests, including measuring climate change-impact, valuing complex ecosystems, and modeling the dynamics of economic and environmental issues.
Chandra received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University (India), and a M.Phil. in Economics from the IGIDR (a Development Research Institute in Mumbai, India). His prior work, in his M.Phil. dissertation, focused on modeling the impact of emission restrictions on the Indian economy and evaluating the beneficial effects, economic and environmental, of the introduction of biological fuels in India.
His research at Columbia focuses on distinct issues, such as evaluating changes in extreme rainfall events for India and developing statistical models for monsoon rainfall prediction (for agricultural use), addressing the issue of groundwater management using a dynamic programming model, and estimating the impact of predicted changes in climate on agriculture in India.