Sujan Pal did his undergrad in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. During his undergrad, he got interested in hydroclimate studies and regional climate models. He learned the techniques of dynamical downscaling during my MS in hydrometeorology in the University of Arizona. During his PhD at University of Illinois, he focused on modeling regional scale land-atmosphere interactions and their impacts on the hydrologic cycle. He is interested in applying machine learning techniques to improve several aspects of land modeling.