 Basu is currently an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.Previous to this position, Basu taught undergraduate courses on Principles in Environmental Engineering and graduate-level courses on Groundwater and Water Resources Sustainability at the University of Iowa.Basu also runs the Basu Lab at the University of Waterloo where she and her diverse research group discover innovative solutions to water sustainability challenges by studying patterns in landscape, hydrology, and biochemistry and the role humans play in changing such patterns.