Team Lead
Saran Aadhar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Center for Intelligent Infrastructure, School of AI and Data Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India
Phone: +91 (291) 280 1662
email: saran.aadhar@iitj.ac.in
Bio
Dr. Saran Aadhar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Infrastructure at IIT Jodhpur. His research focuses on the real-time monitoring of drought and flood, reliable sub-seasonal to seasonal forecast of hydrological extremes, hydrological processes under changing and anthropogenic climate, and the impact of climate change on water resources. Previously, he worked with Prof. Efrat Morin as a Postdoctoral researcher in Hydrometeorology Lab at Hebrew University of Jerusalem from December 2020 to November 2021. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar under the guidance of Prof. Vimal Mishra in March 2021. He completed his Bachelors in Technology from the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur in 2015.
Work experience
Nov 2021 - Present
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
Dec 2022 - Nov 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Education
July 2015 - March 2021
PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Visiting Scholar
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
July 2011 - May 2015
B.Tech.
National Institute of Technology Raipur, India
Awards
2024 CDRI Fellowship
2022 Best Discussion Award for Journal of Hydrological Engineering, ASCE
Sivapalan Young Scientists Travel Award, International Association Of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum
Ministry of Education, Ph.D. Fellowship (2015-2020)
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- Travel grant
IIT Gandhinagar Cash Research Award
SPARC Early Career Researcher Support- Travel grant
Information and Technology Research Academy (ITRA)-Travel grant