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Vivek Srikrishnan

Assistant Professor, Biological & Environmental Engineering

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About

Vivek Srikrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering at Cornell. He works on climate risk management, and is particularly interested in how uncertainties and multi-sector feedbacks can influence the efficacy of risk management interventions. He also lost on Jeopardy!.

Education

Ph.D. Energy & Mineral Engineering | Pennsylvania State University | 2018
M.S. Energy & Mineral Engineering | Pennsylvania State University | 2014
B.S. Mathematics | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2004
B.A. Philosophy | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2004

Group Publications

Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate-risk management
Adam Pollack, Lisa Auermiller, Casey D. Burleyson, Jentry Campbell, Madison Condon, Courtney Cooper, Matteo Coronese, Sönke Dangendorf, James Doss-Gollin, Prabhat Hegde, Casey Helgeson, Robert E. Kopp, Jan Kwakkel, Corey Lesk, Justin S. Mankin, Robert E. Nicholas, Jennie S. Rice, Samantha Roth, Vivek Srikrishnan, Moira Scheeler, Nancy Tuana, Chris R. Vernon, Mengqi Zhao, Klaus Keller
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Explaining drivers of housing prices with nonlinear hedonic regressions
Heng Wan, Brent Daniel, Vivek Srikrishnan, Jim Yoon, David Judi, Pranab Roy Chowdhury, Parin Bhaduri
Under Review

Uncertainty in household behavior drives large variation in the size of the levee effect
Parin Bhaduri, Adam Pollack, Jim Yoon, Pranab Roy Chowdhury, Heng Wan, David Judi, Brent Daniel, Vivek Srikrishnan
Under Review

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Seizing the policy opportunities for health- and equity-improving energy decisions
Wei Peng, Susan Annenberg, John Bistline, Mark Budolfson, Sara M. Constantino, Kelly Crawford, Kenneth J. Davis, Peter DeCarlo, Allen Fawcett, Hayden Hashimoto, Casey Helgeson, Xinyuan Huang, Gokul Iyer, Klaus Keller, Harry Kennard, Kathleen M. Kennedy, Robert Laumbach, Vijay S. Limaye, Erin Mayfield, James MacFarland, Michelle Meyer, Paul Miller, Andrew Place, Nicholas Roy, Christine Schell, Noah Scovronick, Steven J. Smith, Vivek Srikrishnan, Donna Voorhees, Yuanyu Xie
One Earth, 8 (2), 101171 (2025)

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Coastal adaptation and damage costs at different global warming thresholds

Coastal adaptation and damage costs at different global warming thresholds
Tony E. Wong, Selorm Dake, Kelly Feke, Chloe Darnell, Vivek Srikrishnan
npj Natural Hazards, 2, 35 (2025)

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The interplay of future emissions and geophysical uncertainties for future sea level rise

The interplay of future emissions and geophysical uncertainties for future sea level rise
Chloe Darnell, Lisa Rennels, Frank C. Errickson, Tony E. Wong, Vivek Srikrishnan
In Revision (2025)

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Environmental trade-offs in hydrothermal carbonization process selection determined via attributional life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision making
Demola Ogunnaike, Vivek Srikrishnan, Jillian L. Goldfarb
In Revision (2025)

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Technology indicators enable early detection of decarbonization failures

Technology indicators enable early detection of decarbonization failures
Jingyu Shiwang, Wei Peng, Xinyuan Huang, Gokul Iyer, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
Submitted (2025)

Heterogeneous vulnerability of zero-carbon power grids under climate-technological changes
M. Vivienne Liu, Vivek Srikrishnan, Elnaz Kabir, Scott Steinschneider, C. Lindsay Anderson
Under Review (2025)

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Quantifying the impact of multi-scale climate variability on electricity prices in a renewable-dominated power grid

Quantifying the impact of multi-scale climate variability on electricity prices in a renewable-dominated power grid
Elnaz Kabir, Vivek Srikrishnan, M. Vivienne Liu, Scott Steinschneider, C. Lindsay Anderson
Renewable Energy, 223, 120013 (2024)

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Integrating values to improve the relevance of climate‐risk research

Integrating values to improve the relevance of climate‐risk research
Casey Helgeson, Klaus Keller, Robert E. Nicholas, Vivek Srikrishnan, Courtney Cooper, Erica A. H. Smithwick, Nancy Tuana
Earth's Future, 12 (10), e2022EF003025 (2024)

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What drives uncertainty surrounding riverine flood risks?

What drives uncertainty surrounding riverine flood risks?
Iman Hosseini-Shakib, Atieh Alipour, Ben Seiyon Lee, Vivek Srikrishnan, Robert E. Nicholas, Klaus Keller, Sanjib Sharma
Journal of Hydrology, 634, 131055 (2024)

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Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Coarse-Grained Socioeconomic Dynamics
James Koch, Heng Wan, Parin Bhaduri, Jim Yoon, Vivek Srikrishnan, Brent Daniel
Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (2024)

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Emulation methods and adaptive sampling increase the efficiency of sensitivity analysis for computationally expensive models
Samantha Roth, Haochen Ye, Robert E. Nicholas, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
In Review (2024)

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UNSAFE: An UNcertain Structure And Fragility Ensemble framework for property-level flood risk estimation
Adam Pollack, James Doss-Gollin, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
In Review (2024)

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Structural model choices regularly overshadow parametric uncertainty in agent-based simulations of household flood risk outcomes

Structural model choices regularly overshadow parametric uncertainty in agent-based simulations of household flood risk outcomes
Jim Yoon, Heng Wan, Brent Daniel, Vivek Srikrishnan, David Judi
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 103, 101979 (2023)

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Balancing multiple forest management objectives under climate change in central Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Balancing multiple forest management objectives under climate change in central Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Melissa Lucash, Neil Williams, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller, Robert M. Scheller, Casey Helgeson, Robert E. Nicholas, Erica A. H. Smithwick
Trees, Forests and People, 14, 100460 (2023)

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Landscape metrics regularly outperform other traditionally-used ancillary datasets in dasymetric mapping of population

Landscape metrics regularly outperform other traditionally-used ancillary datasets in dasymetric mapping of population
Heng Wan, Jim Yoon, Vivek Srikrishnan, Brent Daniel, David Judi
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 99, 101899 (2023)

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Probabilistic projections of baseline 21<sup>st</sup> century CO<sub>2</sub> emissions using a simple calibrated integrated assessment model

Probabilistic projections of baseline 21st century CO2 emissions using a simple calibrated integrated assessment model
Vivek Srikrishnan, Yawen Guan, Richard S. J. Tol, Klaus Keller
Climatic Change, 170, 37 (2022)

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Multisector dynamics: Advancing the science of complex adaptive human-Earth systems

Multisector dynamics: Advancing the science of complex adaptive human-Earth systems
Patrick M. Reed, Antonia Hadjimichael, Richard H. Moss, Christa Brelsford, Casey D. Burleyson, Stuart Cohen, Ana Dyreson, David F. Gold, Rohini S. Gupta, Klaus Keller, Megan Konar, Erwan Monier, Jennifer F. Morris, Vivek Srikrishnan, Nathalie Voisin, Jim Yoon
Earth's Future, 10 (3), e2021EF002621 (2022)

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MimiBRICK.jl: A Julia package for the BRICK model for sea-level change in the Mimi integrated modeling framework
Tony E. Wong, Lisa Rennels, Frank C. Errickson, Vivek Srikrishnan, Alexander Bakker, Klaus Keller, David Anthoff
Journal of Open Source Software, 7 (76), 2556 (2022)

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Uncertainty analysis in Multi-Sector systems: Considerations for risk analysis, projection, and planning for complex systems

Uncertainty analysis in Multi-Sector systems: Considerations for risk analysis, projection, and planning for complex systems
Vivek Srikrishnan, David C. Lafferty, Tony E. Wong, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Julianne D. Quinn, Sanjib Sharma, Nusrat J. Molla, Jonathan D. Herman, Ryan L. Sriver, Jennifer F. Morris, Ben Seiyon Lee
Earth's Future, 10 (8), e2021EF002644 (2022)

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Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health

Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health
Xinyuan Huang, Vivek Srikrishnan, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Klaus Keller, Wei Peng
Nature Sustainability, 6, 1054–1066 (2022)

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Addressing Uncertainty in Multisector Dynamics Research

Addressing Uncertainty in Multisector Dynamics Research
Patrick M. Reed, Antonia Hadjimichael, Keyvan Malek, Tina Karimi, Chris R. Vernon, Vivek Srikrishnan, Rohini S. Gupta, David F. Gold, Ben Seiyon Lee, Klaus Keller, Travis Thurber, Jennie S. Rice

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MultiSector Dynamics: Scientific Challenges and a Research Vision for 2030, A Community of Practice Supported by the United States Department of Energy's Office of Science
Patrick M. Reed, Antonia Hadjimichael, Richard H. Moss, Erwan Monier, Sequoia Alba, Christa Brelsford, Casey D. Burleyson, Stuart Cohen, Ana Dyreson, David F. Gold, Rohini S. Gupta, Klaus Keller, Megan Konar, Jordan Macknick, Jennifer F. Morris, Vivek Srikrishnan, Nathalie Voisin, Jim Yoon
A Community of Practice Supported by the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science (2022)

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Small increases in agent-based model complexity can result in large increases in required calibration data

Small increases in agent-based model complexity can result in large increases in required calibration data
Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
Environmental Modeling & Software, 138, 104978 (2021)

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Climate risk management

Climate risk management
Klaus Keller, Casey Helgeson, Vivek Srikrishnan
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 49 (1), 95-116 (2021)

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Population downscaling using high-resolution, temporally-rich U.S. property data

Population downscaling using high-resolution, temporally-rich U.S. property data
Heng Wan, Jim Yoon, Vivek Srikrishnan, Brent Daniel, David Judi
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 49 (1), 18-31 (2021)

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Why simpler computer simulation models can Be epistemically better for informing decisions
Casey Helgeson, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller, Nancy Tuana
Philosophy of Science, 88 (2), 213-233 (2021)

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Equity is more important for the social cost of methane than climate uncertainty

Equity is more important for the social cost of methane than climate uncertainty
Frank C. Errickson, Klaus Keller, William D. Collins, Vivek Srikrishnan, David Anthoff
Nature, 592 (7885), 564-570 (2021)

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Neglecting uncertainties biases house-elevation decisions to manage riverine flood risks

Neglecting uncertainties biases house-elevation decisions to manage riverine flood risks
Mahkameh Zarekarizi, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
Nature Communications, 11, 5361 (2020)

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Deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections: Implications for coastal flood risk management

Deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections: Implications for coastal flood risk management
Perry C. Oddo, Ben Seiyon Lee, Gregory G. Garner, Vivek Srikrishnan, Patrick M. Reed, Chris E. Forest, Klaus Keller
Risk Analysis, 40 (1), 153-168 (2020)

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Investing in science to improve climate risk management

Investing in science to improve climate risk management
Vivek Srikrishnan, Richard Alley, Klaus Keller
Eos, 100 (2019)

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Characterizing the deep uncertainties surrounding coastal flood hazard projections: A case study for Norfolk, VA

Characterizing the deep uncertainties surrounding coastal flood hazard projections: A case study for Norfolk, VA
Kelsey L. Ruckert, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 11373 (2019)

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Hedging strategies: Electricity investment decisions under policy uncertainty
Jennifer F. Morris, Vivek Srikrishnan, Mort D. Webster, John M. Reilly
The Energy Journal, 39 (1), 101-122 (2018)

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Neglecting model structural uncertainty underestimates upper tails of flood hazard

Neglecting model structural uncertainty underestimates upper tails of flood hazard
Tony E. Wong, Alexandra Klufas, Vivek Srikrishnan, Klaus Keller
Environmental Research Letters, 13 (7), 74019 (2018)

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Markov-Switching Models for Probabilistic Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting
Vivek Srikrishnan
Ph.D. Thesis, Pennsylvania State University (2018)

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A multi-objective decision-making approach to the journal submission problem

A multi-objective decision-making approach to the journal submission problem
Tony E. Wong, Vivek Srikrishnan, David Hadka, Klaus Keller
PLoS One, 12 (6), e0178874 (2017)

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Skill and skill prediction of cloud-track advection-only forecasting under a cumulus-dominated regime
Vivek Srikrishnan, George S. Young, Jeffrey R. S. Brownson
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56 (3), JAMC–D–16–0224 (2017)

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Using multi-pyranometer arrays and neural networks to estimate direct normal irradiance

Using multi-pyranometer arrays and neural networks to estimate direct normal irradiance
Vivek Srikrishnan, George S. Young, Lucas T. Witmer, Jeffrey R. S. Brownson
Solar Energy, 119, 531-542 (2015)

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The All-Seeing Eye: Using Multi-Pyranometer Arrays and Neural Networks to Estimate Direct Normal Irradiance
Vivek Srikrishnan, George S. Young, Jeffrey R. S. Brownson
43rd ASES National Solar Conference 2014, SOLAR 2014, 511-518 (2014)

Estimation of direct normal irradiance with multi-pyranometer arrays and artificial neural networks
Vivek Srikrishnan
M.S. Thesis, Pennsylvania State University (2014)

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