Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering

Madhusudana Rao, C. is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of NIT Jamshedpur. He holds PhD degree in Hydrology from the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee; an ME degree in Irrigation Water Management from Centre for Water Resources & Ocean Management of Anna University, Guindy, Chennai; and a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada affiliated to Nagarjuna University, Guntur. His research interest includes surface water and groundwater hydrology, Geospatial technology applications for water resources engineering, rainfall-runoff modelling, climate change impact assessment, watershed modelling, river flood modelling, flood forecasting, river water quality modelling, open channel hydraulics and applications of optimization tools for water resources planning and management. He has 22 years of academic experience. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and national and international conferences. Presently he is the Co-Principal Investigator of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India sponsored project titled “Spatial Distribution of Uranium and Associated Water Quality Parameters in groundwater/drinking water of seven districts (East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, West Singhbhum, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla, Latehar) of Jharkhand”. He is the reviewer for Journal of Climate Change (Springer Series), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Book Projects (ASCE Publications), International Journal of Environmental Studies (Taylor & Francis Group), Current Science Journal (Indian Academy of Sciences) and Applied Water Science journal (Springer). Professor Kanhu Charan Patra is a Civil Engineer of international repute who is currently working as professor (HAG) in the Civil Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He has worked as the Head of Civil Engineering Department and DEAN (Alumni Relations and Resources Generation) at the Institute. Prof. Patra graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from NIT Rourkela, in 1981. He obtained his M. Tech and PG (Diploma) from the University of (IIT) Roorkee, where he stood first amongst first class in the entire University in 1987 and received the Prestigious Chancellors Gold Medal. He obtained PhD degree from IIT Kharagpur. Prof Patra has vast teaching, research and administrative experience spanning over the last 39 years. He has published several books on water resources and hydraulic engineering. Prof Patra has published more than 232 papers in water resources and hydraulic engineering. He is a member of the editorial board of Advances of Fluid Mechanics and reviewer of many international journals. Professor Deepak Jhajharia, Ph. D., is currently working as Professor in Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Post Harvest Technology (Central Agricultural University), Ranipool, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He is also acting as principal investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering Technology CAEPHT (Gangtok) centre, which is funded entirely by ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, India, since 2016. He did graduation from College of Technology and Engineering (MPUAT), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, in Agricultural Engineering in 1998, and post-graduation from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in Water Resources Engineering from Department of Civil Engineering. He obtained his Ph. D. degree from Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is one of the co-authors of Handbook of Conservation Agriculture published by CRC Press, Tayor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. He along with Prof. Kumar, Prof. V P Singh, Prof. Mirabbasi published “Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change” and “Applied Agricultural Practices for Mitigating Climate Change” published by CRC Press, Tayor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. He was elected as the Fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee (in 2015), Society of Extension Education, Agra (in 2018) and Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee (2019). He is recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2016) by College of Technology and Engineering Alumni Society, CTAE (MPUAT), Udaipur. He is the recipient of the prestigious Science Without Border scholarship - Young Talent of CNPq, Brazil and has spent about 6 months as Research Collaborator at Department of Agronomy, Universidade Federal Rural De Pernambuco (UFRPE), Ministry of Education, Brazil. Dr. Sangeeta Kumari is currently working as an assistant professor at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. She holds Ph.D. degree in water resources engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; M.S. (by research) in water resources engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai; and B.Sc. Engineering in Civil Engineering from Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Bihar, India. Her research area includes water resources systems, applied hydrology, hydraulic engineering, reservoir operation, fuzzy set theory, uncertainty analysis, genetic algorithm, irrigation and drainage engineering, infiltration models, ground water and stochastic hydrology. She has published research papers in ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. She has recently authored one book chapter in the book “An Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Series: Mathematics Research Developments”, Nova Science Publishers. She has participated in international conferences such as American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, and International Conference on Hydraulics, Water resources & Environmental Engineering, (ISH - HYDRO). She is reviewer ofjournals such as ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Hydrology and Water Supply. She is associate member of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and life members of Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) and Indian Water Works Association (IWWA). She has industrial experience of 4.5 years in consultancy firms.

Trends of Rainfall and Temperature over Chhattisgarh during 1901-2010.-  Estimation and Simulation of Flows into an Off Taking Canal Using Ansys.- Drought Evaluation of Tiruchirapalli City, India using Three Meteorological Indices.- Forecasting of Meteorological Drought Using Machine Learning.- Assessment of Economic Value of Doddabommasandra Lake Using Contingent Valuation Method and Travel Cost Method.- Meteorological Drought Analysis using SPI-6 for Marathwada Region, Maharashtra State, India.- Analysis and Comparison of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network based Study for Rainfall Predictions and Hydrological Modelling: A Case Study of Ahmedabad.