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  Brief Details: Dr. Sharad Patel currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at University Teaching Department, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, C.G. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, M.P. and master’s degree in Civil Engineering from S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat. Further, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Maharstra. He has more than 3.5 years of experience as a researcher and academician in the field of Groundwater flow modeling and management. He has also published around 10 papers in international journals and conferences. He is actively involved in the various government consultancy projects awarded to the EWRE department of CSVTU, Bhilai, C.G.   Research & Teaching This presentation starts with the self-introduction which highligh...

  Brief Details: Dr. Ellora Padhi is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE), Greater Noida since January 2021. Prior to joining SNIoE, she worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for almost one year. From the educational front, she completed her B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering Bhubaneswar, Biju Pattanaik University of Technology, Odisha in 2010. Then, she earned her M. Tech in Water Resources Engineering from NIT Rourkela in 2014. Thereafter, she joined Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur to pursue a Ph.D. in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering specialization. Her Ph.D. tenure was completed in January 2020. Her thesis title was “Turbulence characteristics in water-worked and screeded gravel-bed streams”. Her research interest includes turbulence in open channel, sediment transport processes, and analysis of rapidly varied fl...

  Brief Details: Dr. Gaurav Misuriya currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT Calicut. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay, specializing in Water Resource Engineering. His doctoral research primarily cantered on the investigation of local scour phenomena around bridge piers of various shapes, encompassing steady, unsteady, and combined wave conditions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Gaurav completed his M. Tech. degree in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering at IIT Kanpur and obtained his B. Tech. in Civil Engineering from SGSITS, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He also contributed his expertise as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay for a duration of 3 months. Gaurav's extensive research interests primarily revolve around experimental studies in open channel flow. His contributions to the field include the publication of 4 research articles in highly esteemed journals withi...

  Brief Details: Dr Anshul Yadav is currently Scientist in Membrane Science and Separation Technology division, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar. He received B.Tech.-M.Tech. dual degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2017 and Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi in 2022. He works in the area of water and wastewater treatment specializing in membrane-based treatment techniques. He is recipient of ISEES Young Scientist Award in 2023 for his contributions in water treatment processes. He has received several research grants from Council of Scientific and Industrial research, Bureau of Indian Standards, to name a few. Research Industrial and population growth, accompanied by environmental pollution, has led to an unprecedented freshwater crisis, which has attracted the serious attention of membrane technocrats. The conventional waste(water) treatment metho...

  Brief Details: Dr. Chandan Pradhan currently holds the position of Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where he focuses on the development of smart flood monitoring and warning systems for the Himalayan rivers, as well as the design of river health monitoring models. He earned his B. Tech. in Civil Engineering from IGIT Sarang, Odisha. Subsequently, he pursued M. Tech in Water Resources Engineering and Management and Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Dr. Pradhan's primary research interests encompass Hydraulics, River Engineering, and the utilization of Satellite Remote Sensing for River Management Studies. He has published research articles in esteemed international journals. Furthermore, Dr. Pradhan has worked on research and consultancy projects focused on the development of flood warning systems, waterway enhancements, dam break analysis, and nature-based flood management- all those ...

  Brief Details: Dr. Swapan Kumar Masanta I have completed my Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Agricultural Engineering at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, where I obtained gold medal for highest CGPA. I pursued a Master of Engineering (M.E) in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Subsequently, I embarked on my Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) journey, specializing in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at the same esteemed institution, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During my PhD, I published two papers in International Journal of Climatology (IJOC) and one paper in Journal of Hydrology (JH). Currently, I am working as consultant of R&D in Xceedance. Where, I am preparing probabilistic map for flood, wildfire, cyclone and drought considering climate change scenarios for use as hazard risk data in insurance industry. My research interests are, the prediction of h...

  Brief Details: I am working as an environmental scientist at Data Capture and Automatization team of KWS, a multi-national seed breeding company in Germany. I have been extensively working with the several above and below ground sensors for real-time environmental monitoring and its data management. Furthermore, I am also working in a project for providing the real-time irrigation recommendation to the different breeding stations and farmers for corn and sugarbeet across different agro-climates. Before that I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bayreuth University, Germany where I had used agro-hydrological modelling to assess the impact of climate change on water quantity, water quality, sediment load and crop yield at watershed level for different catchments located in Bavaria, Germany. Furthermore, I have an extensive experience in modelling hydrology and water resources management of agricultural dominated catchments around the world (Chile, Germany, Vietnam, USA and India...

  Brief Details: I have pursued my Ph.D. from the Agricultural and Food Engineering (AgFE) Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India under the supervision of Prof. Chandranath Chatterjee (AgFE Department, IIT Kharagpur) and Prof. Bhabagrahi Sahoo (School of Water Resources, IIT Kharagpur). My Ph.D. thesis is entitled “Flood Forecasting and Risk Assessment in Mahanadi River Basin considering Climate Change”. My Ph.D. work focuses on the analysis of the aggravated flood problems and a way to tackle them in the Mahanadi River basin, a highly flood-prone river basin in eastern India. Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor in the College of Horticulture & Farming System Research, Assam Agricultural University, Nalbari. I have 4 publications from my Ph.D. thesis work in reputed journals including ‘Journal of Hydrology’, ‘Hydrological Processes’ and ‘Hydrological Sciences Journal’. A part of my M.Tech thesis work is also published in the ‘Sustainabil...

  Brief Details: I am Dr. Swati Sirsant, currently working as an Assistant Professor at Nirma University, Gujarat. I did my Post Doctorate from American University of Sharjah, UAE from October 2021 to April 2022. I did my PhD from IIT Bombay from 2015 to 2021 on the topic “Multi-objective design of Water Distribution Networks considering mechanical, hydraulic failures and future water demands”. I completed my masters from VNIT Nagpur in Water Resources Engineering in the year 2015. I pursued my bachelors from BIT Durg in Civil Engineering from 2009 to 2013. I did my schooling from Durg, Chhattisgarh. I have expertise in the fields of optimization and water distribution network design. I have software and coding skills in C++, MATLAB, EPANET, WaterGems etc. I have published 9 papers in peer reviewed international journals, 1 book chapter and 2 conference publications held abroad, as well as 5 conference publications in international conferences held in India. I would be interest...

  Brief Details: I am Aparimita Priyadarshini Naik, and I received my master's (July 2016) and doctorate (February 2023) from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Water Resources Engineering and Management. My undergraduate education includes a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology Sarang, Odisha. My research interests are in the areas of infiltration measurements, subsurface/vadose zone hydrology, unsaturated soil mechanics, and numerical modelling. I have been actively engaged in research in my specialized field, commencing with my master's degree program at IITG. During my master's studies, I acquired expertise in conducting in-situ infiltration experiments using various infiltrometers and permeameters. Additionally, I employed inverse modelling techniques to simulate and analyze flow measurements. During my Ph.D. research, I focused on the precise characterization of ...