Name

Durga Lal Shrestha

Sitapaila – 4

Kathmandu, Nepal

GPO – 8823, Kathmandu, Nepal

PostDoc Researcher

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education

P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands

T: +31-15-2151 764

F: +31-15-2122 921

E: d.shrestha@unesco-ihe.org

I: www.ihe.nl/hi/durgalal/

PhD in Hydroinformatics (March, 2004-March, 2009) atthe International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands. PhD title – “ Uncertainty Analysis in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: Application of  Machine Learning Techniques”, promotor and co-promoter: Prof. Dr. D. P. Solomatine and Promoter: Prof. Dr. R. K. Price.

Research works in special program in Hydroinformatics (May 2002 - February 2004) at, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands.

MSc Degree (with Distinction) in Hydroinformatics – April 2002 at the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands. Research topic – “Application of Bayesian Networks in Hydroinformatics”, supervised by Prof. Dr. R. K. Price and Ir. S. Velickov.

Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering with Distinction (July 1996) from Tribhuwan University, 

Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Diploma (with Distinction) in Civil Engineering – July 1991 at the TribhuwanUniversity, Institute Of Engineering in Pulchowk, Nepal.

FLOODsite - Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies (Time period: March 1, 2004 - February 28, 2009).

Delft Cluster - Data mining, knowledge discovery and data-driven modelling (Time period: May 2002 – February 2004)

June, 2009 – July, 2010:-Postdoctoral research fellow at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Research in hydroinformatics, computational intelligence, water resources engineering, hydrological modeling, uncertainty and risk analysis, global and evolutionary optimization, non-linear dynamics and chaos theory.

November, 1996 – October, 2000:-Hydrologist engineer at Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal.The major work task included hydrological data analysis and processing, hydrological database management, hydrometric stations network design and monitoring,hydrological modelling. The involvement in NISP project funded by World bank (1988-2000) for design, monitoring and supervision of civil structure of more than 50 newly established hydrometric stations in the western part of the country.

June, 1996 – November, 1996:- Design Engineer in Deta Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal. The major work task included design and estimate of water supply and sanitation project, building structures, cinema hall, campus facilities etc.

April, 1991– May, 1992:- Junior civil engineer (Overseer) in CTEVT (council for technical education and vocational training).The major work task included design and estimate of vocational training complexes in the different parts of the country.

May, 2002 – September, 2005:- MSc Individual study guidance and supervision at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

September, 2003– till:- MSc Thesis study guidance and supervision at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

• Instance based learning in hydrological modelling (2004)
• Novel Methods for Uncertainty Analysis of Hydrologic Models (2006)
• Comparison of novel approaches to uncertainty analysis of hydrological models (2007)
• Uncertainty analysis of hydrological models –Nzoia River Case study (2008)

MATLAB Lectures and exercises

• Application of Bayesian Networks, Hidden Markov mixture of models, non-linear dynamic and chaos theory
• Machine learning techniques (Artificial neural networks, support vector machines, instance based learning etc.) and its application to hydrological modeling (rainfall-runoff modeling, flood forecasting)
• Committee machines, Boosting and Bagging algorithms
• Uncertainty modeling of physically based and data driven models
• Global and random search optimization

View Publication Lists here (HTML).

Download publication lists in PDF format from here.

Utility ToolPak 2007 (UTP): Excel Add-Ins to perform average mutual information (AMI), correlation analysis, model performance, entropy calculation, randomisation and shuffling the data etc. (http://www.hi.ihe.nl/durgalal/software.htm)

Utility for MS Excel and Word 2003 : Available here to download

Various MATLAB Tools: Download from here

UNEECTOOL: A Tool for total model uncertainty

MACCO: MATLAB Implementation of global optimization algorithm ACCO

Chaos ToolPak: Excel Add-Ins for prediction using non-linear dynamic and chos theory

and many more....

International

Member - International Association of Hydrological Sciences, IAHS

Member - International Association of Hydraulic Research, IAHR

Member – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, IEEE

Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Member - European Geosciences Union

Member - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

National

Member - Nepal Engineers' Association, Nepal

Member - Nepal Engineer Council, Nepal

Member – Society of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal

Member – Institute of Engineering Alumni Association, Nepal

Computer and

Software Knowledge

Computer language, operating system:

Windows OS, Visual Basic, VBA, Delphi, Java, JBuilder, Matlab, Fortran

Specialised simulation modelling packages:

Mike 11, Mike She, NAM, Sobek, EpaNet, ModFlow, Aquarius, SWAT

Data mining and intelligent data analysis software and technologies:

NeuroSolutions, Statistica, SPSS, Weka, CSPW, R

Hugin Expert System, Lingo

Computer legacy software and GIS:

MS Office, Corel Draw, PaintShop, ArcGIS, Delphi Desktop

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Journal of Hydrology

Environmental Modelling and Software

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering