Madhusmita Swain
Phone: +1 828.357.7417 Email: mswain@ncsu.edu
Biography
Dr. Madhusmita Swain is a Postdoctoral Associate at the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS), North Carolina State University, where she investigates various general mechanisms for extreme precipitation and develops nonstationary Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves and new climate design metrics to support infrastructure resilience in a changing climate. Her research integrates high-resolution numerical weather prediction (WRF/uWRF), AI/ML-based forecasting, and land–atmosphere interaction studies to advance extreme precipitation forecasting over urban and coastal regions.
Dr. Swain received her Ph.D. (2021) and M.Sc. (2016) in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India, following a B.Sc. (Honors) in Geology from Adikavi Sarala Das College, Utkal University. Before joining NCICS in 2026, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University at Albany, SUNY (2023–2026), where she led AI-based extreme-precipitation prediction
research for New York City using NVIDIA GPU and IBM-AIU high-performance computing resources. She was a recipient of the Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM) at Purdue University (2019–2020). She led radiosonde deployment for the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) and led the daily real-time precipitation forecast dashboard for New York City and Baltimore.