Research Students

Summary: PhD - 17 (10 completed)

Temporary Research Students – 11

MTech / MS – 22 (21 completed)

BTech – 18 (18 completed)

Summer Interns (External) – 07

PhD:

Completed

1) Dr. Kashid Satishkumar Shahajirao (Completed in 2010; shared with another faculty)

Thesis Title: Basic-scale streamflow forecasting using hydrometeorological and hydroclimatological inputs

Working as a Professor in Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur, Maharastra

2) Dr. Parag P Bhagwat (Completed in 2013; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Streamflow Response of a Watershed to Meteorological Variables: Development of Hydroclimatic Conceptual Model

Joined as Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science, Water and Land Management Institute, Aurangabad, Maharashtra

3) Dr. Sarit Kumar Das (Completed in 2015; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Hydrometeorological Approach for Probabilistic Soil Moisture Simulation using Climate Inputs

Joined as Assistant Professor, in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Sikkim, Sikkim. Also, received the offer from DST-Inspire Faculty.

4) Dr. Kironmala Chanda (Completed in 2016; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Characterization and Hydroclimatic Prediction of Droughts in the Context of Changing Climate

Joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand

5) Dr. Anindita Patra (Completed in 2018; Shared with Prof. P K Bhaskaran)

Thesis Title: Wind-Wave Climate Variability over the Head Bay of Bengal

Received a post-doc offer from the Climate Change Research Lab, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea

6) Dr. Manali Pal (Completed in 2018; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Probabilistic Estimation of Surface and Vertical Soil Moisture Profile using Satellite-based Remotely Sensed Observations

Joined as Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal

7) Dr. Subbarao Pichuka (Completed in 2019; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Time-varying Downscaling Approach for Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Hydroclimatic Variables Considering Nonstationarity

Joined as Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh

8) Dr. Naren A (Completed in 2020; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Hydroclimatic Modelling of Local Sea Level Rise and its Impact on Coastal Regions

Received Post-doc offer from Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Joined as Ad-hoc faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh.

9) Dr. Mayank Suman (Completed in 2021; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Analysis and modeling of hydrological extremes under changing climate across India

Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

10) Ms. Riya Dutta (Completed in 2022; Co-Guide - Nil)

Thesis Title: Hydroclimatic modelling of non-stationary processes in a changing climate through the concept of time-varying framework

Received an offer for postdoctoral research fellow from Department of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU).

Ongoing

11) Mr. Subharthi Sarkar (Ongoing; Joined in July 2017; Co-Guide - Nil)

12) Mr. Imran Khan (Ongoing; Joined in Jan 2018; Co-Guide - Nil)

13) Ms. Subhasmita Dash (Ongoing; Joined in July 2018; Co-Guide - Nil)

14) Mr. Subhra Sekhar Maity (Ongoing; Joined in 2019; Co-Guide - Nil) (PMRF Fellow)

15) Ms. Taroob Bashir Naqash (Co-Guide to External Student from NIT Srinagar, Guide: Manzoor Ahmad Ahanger, NIT Srinagar; Ongoing; Joined in 2019)

16) Mr. Ashesh Rudra Paul (Ongoing; Joined in 2020; Co-Guide - Nil)

17) Mr. Aman Srivastava (Ongoing; Joined in 2021; Co-Guide - Prof. V R Desai) (PMRF Fellow)

Temporary Research Students:

1) Dr. Sumana Sarkar – Research Associate from November 29, 2017 to June 28, 2018.

2) Mr. Sarit Kumar Das – Senior Research Fellow from January 7, 2010 to August 6, 2010.

3) Mr. Sayan Dey – Temporary Project Staff from August 01, 2013 to October 31, 2013.

4) Mr. Sayan Dey – Junior Research Fellow from November 01, 2013 to June 30, 2014.

5) Ms. Riya Dutta – Senior Research Fellow from March 03, 2015 to July 10, 2015.

6) Ms. Subhasmita Dash – Junior Research Fellow from December 13, 2017 to July 10, 2018.

7) Ms. Sunanda Narayana – Temporary Project Staff from December 18, 2017 to May 06, 2018.

8) Dr. Manali Pal – Research Associate from July 30, 2018 to October 26, 2018

9) Dr. Anindita Patra – Research Associate from August 23, 2018 to November 19, 2018.

10) Dr. Mayank Suman – Research Associate from January 04, 2021 to June 30, 2021

11) Dr. Riya Dutta – Research Associate from January, 2022 to August. 2022

MTech and MS:

Completed (MS)

1. Ms. Riya Dutta (MS thesis submitted in March 2018; Co-Guide - Nil)

MS Thesis Title: Potential of Graphical Modelling Approach in Multivariate Hydroclimatic Applications: Analysis and Forecasting

Converted to Joint MS-PhD program (MS defense date: July 16, 2018)

Completed (MTech)

2. Mr. Ashish Bhatnagar (Completed in 2009; shared with another faculty)

Dissertation Title: Hydrologic time series analysis using support vector regression

3. Mr. Mahesh D Sawant (Completed in 2010; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Uncertainty Quantification for Predicted Streamflow through a Semiparametric Approach

4. Mr. Dhanesh Prashad (Completed in 2010; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Probabilistic Rainfall Prediction by Split Markov Process (SMP)

5. Ms. Kironmala Chanda (Completed in 2011; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Assessment of probabilistic dependence of rainfall and streamflow on Outgoing Longwave Radiation using Plackett Copula

6. Ms. Haritha V P (Completed in 2011; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Hydroclimatic approach for streamflow forecasting using Bayesian dynamic linear models

7. Mr. Selva Balaji M (Completed in 2012; Co-Guide – Prof. S Dey)

Dissertation Title: Graphical Model on Reynolds Shear Stress in Flow About a Cylinder

8. Mr. Chandan Roy (Completed in 2012; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: IHACRES model for distributed watershed modeling

9. Ms. Debshri Swargiary (Completed in 2013; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Spatio-temporal variation of annual daily extreme rainfall across India using both observed and CMIP5 data

10. Mr. SVB Patel (Completed in 2013; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Gradual Change in Monthwise Extreme Daily Streamflow of Mahanadi River

11. Mr. Nitesh Kumar Verma (Completed in 2014; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Characterization of Different Types of droughts and Their temporal Correspondence at a River basin Scale

12. Ms. Manasa S M (Completed in 2014; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Modelling of Regional Sea Level Rise using Semi-Empirical Hydroclimatic Approach

13. Mr. Akash Kopa (Completed in 2014; Co-Guide – Prof. Kuntsmann)

Dissertation Title: A Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrologic Model of the Mahanadi River Basin

14. Mr. Mayank Suman (Completed in 2015; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Hybrid Wavelet-Auto-Regressive Model with Exogenous Inputs (WAVELET-ARX) for Modelling Hydro-Meteorological Associations at River Basin Scale

15. Mr. Rajendra Prasad R (Completed in 2016; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: Impact of Climate Change on the Pattern of Daily Extremes in the Inflow to Bhadra Reservoir

16. Mr. Bhagarathi Sahu (Completed in 2018; Co-Guide – Prof. V R Desai)

Dissertation Title: Analysis of Trends and Variability of Droughts over the Indian Monsoon Region Using Standardized Precipitation Anomaly Index (SPAI)

17. Mr. Neeraj Kumar (Completed in 2019; Co-Guide - Nil)

Dissertation Title: A Deep Learning Approach for Multi-step ahead Daily Rainfall Prediction

18. Mr. Addagarla Dheeraj Bhanu (Completed in 2021)

Dissertation Title: Regional Rainfall Forecasting Using Machine Learning Approach 

19. Mr. Vikram Chugh (Completed in 2021)

Dissertation Title: Developing Soil Moisture Prediction Models using Machine Learning

20. Mr. Shubham Kumar (Completed in 2022)

Dissertation Title: Modeling Climate Change impacts on Vector-borne disease using Machine Learning models: Case Study of Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) from Indian state of Bihar

21. Mr. Prince Abraham (Completed in 2022)

Dissertation Title: Assessment of Basin-scale Climate Change Impact on Precipitation Extremes using CMIP6 Simulations

MTech Ongoing

22. Mr. Lavudiya Balachandra Naik (Joined in 2019; Taken a temporary withdrawal and joined to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited)

BTech:

Completed

1. Mr. Ankit Surekha (Completed in 2011)

2. Mr. Ghanshyam Jeph (Completed in 2011)

3. Mr. Harish Kumar Singh (Completed in 2012)

4. Mr. Atul Choudhary (Completed in 2012)

5. Mr. Prerit Varun (Completed in 2013)

6. Mr. Sayan Dey (Completed in 2013)

7. Mr. Ankit Aggarwal (Completed in 2014)

8. Mr. Shivshankar Meena (Completed in 2014)

9. Mr. Abhinav Yashkar (Completed in 2014)

10. Mr. Saurav Suman (Completed in 2015)

11. Mr. Chakravaram Sai Krishna (Completed in 2016)

12. Mr. Vishal Babu (Completed in 2016)

13. Mr. Mayank Jindal (Completed in 2018)

14. Mr. P Jaswanth Reddy (Completed 2018)

15. Mr. Arpan Kumar Pallar (Completed in 2019)

16. Mr. Rahul Jain (Completed in 2020)

17. Mr. Venkata Surendra Mandala (Completed in 2021)

18. Mr. Aditya Yadav (Joined in 2022)

Summer Interns (External):

1. Ms. Somu Varshitha – BTech Summar Internship from May 10, 2015 to June 30, 2015.

2. Ms. Shaik Shahinoor – BTech Summar Internship from May 10, 2015 to July 07, 2015.

3. Ms. Subhasmita Dash – Junior Research Fellow from December 13, 2017 to July 10, 2018.

4. Ms. Sunanda Narayana – Temporary Project Staff from December 18, 2017 to May 06, 2018.

5. Ms. Soumi Mishra - BTech Summar Internship from May 06, 2019 to June 30, 2019.

6. Mr. Ayush Sinha - BTech Summar Internship from May 10, 2019 to June 30, 2019.

7. Ms. Amrita Bhattacharjee - BTech Summar Internship from May 01, 2020 to July 31, 2020

Last Updated: May, 2022