Education: B.Sc.(medical) , KCW, Ludhiana (1993); M.Sc., PAU, Ludhiana (1996); Ph.D., PAU, Ludhiana (2002)

Positions held: Assistant Agrometeorologist, PAU Ludhiana (2004-2016), Senior Agrometeorologist (2016-2019), Principal Agrometeorologist (2019-till date)

Field of Specialization: Climate Change & Crop-Weather relationship, Weather Forecasting & Agroadvisory Services for farmers, Crop Modelling, Microclimatic Modifications

Present Research Interests/Projects:

Research Interests:

1. Climate Change and its effect on crops

2. Weather & Crop Yield Forecasting

3. Microclimatic Interventions

Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator of “Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa” project of India Meteorological Department funded by MoES
• Principal Investigator of " Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agrometeorology and Land based observation" sposonsored by MoES
• Co-PI of ICAR sponsored "National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)".

Selected Research Publications (maximum up to 5):

1. Santanu Kumar Bal, Rajkumar Dhakar, P Vijaya Kumar, Adita Mishra, V P Pramod, M A Sarah Chandran, V M Sandeep, AVM Subba Rao, K K Gill and Rajendra Prasad. (2021) Temporal Trends in frost occurrence and their prediction models using multivariate statistical techniques for two diverse locations of Northern India. Theoratical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03786-8. (NAAS rating 9.18)
2. Samanpreet Kaur, Ramandeep Singh, Bharat Bhusan Vashisht, K K Gill, Rajan Aggarwal. (2020) Modelling the response of paddy water balance on groundwater level fluctuations in Central Punjab. Journal of Hydroinformatics. 22 (6). 1663-1671. (NAAS rating 8.38)
3. K K Gill, S S Sandhu, Divya and Mishra S K (2018) Pre-harvest wheat yield prediction using CERES-wheat model for Ludhiana district, Punjab, India. J of Agrometeorology. 19 : 319-21. (NAAS rating: 6.40)
4. K K Gill and S S Kukal (2017) Long term and recent variability in rainfall amount and distribution in different agroclimatic regions of Punjab. Mausam. 68 (4): 733-50. (NAAS rating: 6.31)
5. P K Singh, K K Singh, K K Gill, Ram Niwas, R S Singh and Sanjay Sharma (2017) Dry Biomass portioning of growth & development in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop using CERES-wheat in different agroclimatic zones of India. Current Science. 113 (4): 752-66. (NAAS rating: 7.01)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions: NIL