Dhruv Bhagtani
Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDhruv Bhagtani is a Climate Data Scientist and Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University with eight years of experience applying computational and physical oceanography to climate problems. He completed a strong technical foundation at IIT Madras (BTech, Ocean Engineering) and a doctoral program at ANU focused on how surface heat fluxes and wind stress steer large-scale ocean circulation. Dhruv blends numerical methods (including GPU-parallel finite-element solvers developed as an undergrad) with hands-on laboratory teaching and outreach, having designed courses and coordinated engagement for research talent programs. His work crosses academia and applied research—from estimating barotropic streamfunctions to storm-surge modeling—and reflects a knack for translating complex fluid dynamics into usable models and educational material. Based in Princeton, he brings both rigorous theory and practical implementation experience to interdisciplinary climate challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (43)
fluid10
cookbook10
toolbox10
jupyter10
machine-learning10
climate-science10
dynamics10
anaconda10
climate-change10
gpu10
binder10
fluid-dynamics10
hydrogen10
ocean10
ocean-modelling10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dhruvbhagtani/toy-model
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
This is a hybrid model of the global ocean with simplified governing equations to understand large scale circulations.
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
equationsoceanhybrid-modelscalesimplified
dhruvbhagtani/sfc-perturbation-expts
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
The ocean circulation is driven by a combination of winds and surface buoyancy fluxes. We run a number of experiments with varied surface forcings and look at the spatial variations in ocean circulation on short and long time-scales.
Contributions:128 commits, 64 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year
combinationlookpythonocean-circulationfluxes
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