His research interests are hydrologic remote sensing, sustainable water resources engineering, transboundary water resources management and engineering education. He is the recipient of awards such as NASA New Investigator Award (2008), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Outstanding Research Award (2009), US Fulbright Faculty Award (2012), G.O.L.D. (Graduate Of the Last Decade) award from University of Connecticut (2012), American Geophysical Union (AGU) Charles Falkenberg Award (2012), American Meteorological Society Editor's Award (2015), ASCE Walter Huber Award (2015), ASCE Outstanding Achievement Award for Task Committee Leadership (2018) and American Geophysical Union International Award (2020). In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (EWRI).