Research Students

PhD Students (Completed: 08)

1. Ashutosh Pati (2024): A Novel Modeling Framework for Assessing Low Impact Development Strategies in Urban Flood Management under Scantily-gauged Scenarios (Enrollment No. 16WM91R02) 

2. Aurobrata Das (2024): Ensuring Sustainability in Water-Energy-Food-Society-Environment Nexus of a Multi-purpose Reservoir Command  (Enrollment No. 14WM91R02, Co-supervisor: Prof. S.N. Panda)

3. Debi Prasad Sahoo (2023): Coupled Remote Sensing-Hydrodynamic based Frameworks for High-frequent Riverine Water Quantity and Quality Monitoring (Enrollment No. 17WM92P01, Co-supervisor: Prof. M.K. Tiwari) 

4. Amina Khatun (2023): Flood Forecasting and Risk Assessment in Mahanadi River basin considering Climate Change (Enrollment No. 17AG92P02, Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)

5. Sonam Sandeep Dash (2021): Enhanced SWAT-Pothole Model for Hydrological Analyses of Kangsabati Reservoir Catchment-Command under Changing Climate (Enrollment No. 16WM91R04, Co-supervisor: Prof. N.S. Raghuwanshi)

6. Soumyaranjan Sahoo (2021): Hillslope-based Surface Water-Groundwater Interaction Modelling for Land Use and Climate Change Impact Assessment (Enrollment No. 14WM91R01) 

7. Trushnamayee Nanda  (2018): Real-time Flood Forecasting Using Variable Infiltration Capacity Model and Artificial Neural Networks (Enrollment No. 13AG90J01, Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)

8. Ratnakar Swain  (2017): A Coupled Flow and Solute Transport Model for Real-time Monitoring of Conservative River Pollutants using Remote Sensing Observations (Enrollment No. 12WM92R02)

PhD Students (on Roll: 08)

1.  Sabinay Biswal (2016-onwards): Surface water - groundwater interaction modeling (Enrollment No. 16AG90J05, Co-supervisor: Prof. M.K. Jha)

2. Subhadeep Mandal (2018 onwards): Climate Change Impact on River Baseflow and its Feedback (Enrollment No. 17WM92P02, Co-supervisor: Prof. A. Mishra)

3. Ashrumochan Mohany (2020): Reservoir operation under changing climate (Enrollment No. 20WM91R01, Co-supervisor: Dr. R.V. Kale)

4.  Kunwar Abhishek Singh (2020): Water Quality Monitoring and Management (Enrollment No. 20WM92R03, Co-supervisors: Dr. M. K. Tiwari, Dr. M. Arora, Dr. D. Ryu)

5. Roshan Suryakant Mohanty (2022): Flood forecasting in Mahanadi River basin  (Enrollment No. 22WM91R01, Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)

6.  Saidutta Mohanty (2022): Mapping resilient rainwater harvesting sites in Mahanadi and Upper Krishna River basins under changing land use and climate scenarios  (Enrollment No. 22AG92P01, Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)  

7. Krishna Rawat (2023): Streamflow estimation using Entropy theory and remote sensing approaches  (Enrollment No. 23WM91J01)

8. Shasanka Sekhar Barik (2024): Integrated hydrological modeling for understanding land-ocean-atmosphere feedback dynamics  (Enrollment No. 24WM91R06)

 BTech Students

Completed

1. Pranjal Kumar Raut (2015) : Development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based software for real-time flood estimation using TRMM precipitation data

2. Sameer Ranjan Rana (2015) Development of a software for climate change studies using ANN-based coupled VIC model

MTech Students

On Roll (02)

1. Ramkumar Indrajit Debnath (2025) Flood modeling using MIKE+ (Enrollment No. 24WM60R01)

2. Ankit Kumar (2025) Surface water - groundwater interaction flux forecasting with hsB model (Enrollment No. 24WM60R06)

Completed (37)

1. Maukthik Srivathsan Jeganathan (2025): Improving irrigation management scenarios in SWAT+ with paddy field dynamics (Enrollment No. 23WM60R01)

2. Gabriel Toppo (2025): Mapping flood inundations in upper Krishna Basin using Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model (Enrollment No. 23WM60R02)

3.  Digvijay Dilip Chougule (2025) Selection and evaluation of CMIP6 model for extreme rainfall prediction across India under climate change scenarios (Enrollment No. 23WM60R06)

4. Bitati Sarkar (2025) Treatment of agricultural runoff using constructed wetlands (Enrollment No. 23WM60R09) 

5. Gopika P. Dinesh (2024): A coupled HSB-WNARX model framework for groundwater table forecasting in Baitarani River Basin under climate change scenarios 

6. Ritikesh Muarya (2024): Assessment of long-term planform changes in Brahmani-Baitarani Rivers under fluvial dynamics

7. Manukuri Sainath (2024): Improving SWAT-based streamflow estimates in Brahmani River basin

8. Susandhya Mohapatra (2024): Assessing annual water yield and sediment delivery ratio of Damodar River basin using INVEST model (Co-Supervisor: Dr. R. Remesan)

9. Vivek Nainwal (2024): Flood estimation in Brahmani-Baitarani River basins using HEC-HMS

10. Krishna Rawat (2023): Streamflow monitoring in data-scarce rivers using entropy theory and remote sensing observations  

11. Triprna Das (2022): Potency of historic rule curve in simulating releases from Panchet reservoir on the Damodar River basin under changing climate  (Co-Supervisor: Prof. A. Mishra)

12. Sakshi Mall (2022): Design flood inundation mapping of Upper Krishna River Basin 

13. Aman Tejaswi (2022): Integrated ADCIRC-SWAN-HEC-RAS 2D modeling framework for cyclonic coastal flood inundation mapping 

14. Anjani Kumar Yadav (2022): An analytical hierarchical process (AHP) for flood susceptibility mapping using Google Earth Engine

15. Hemraj Meena (2021): Assessment of Chhapi Reservoir (Rajasthan, India) operation performance using HEC-ResSim model 

16. Sagnik Samant (2020): Implication of future urban land use change on water quality of Hooghly River: A remote sensing-based approach 

17. Manish Kumar Aryan (2020): Impact of Land Use Land Cover Change on Future Groundwater Availability of Baitarani River Basin using MODFLOW  (Jharkhand Central University, Co-Supervisor: Dr. B. Bharti)

18. Vaishnav Kumar (2020) Climate change impact on surface water resources of Budhabalanga River using SWAT (Jharkhand Central University, Co-Supervisor: Dr. B. Bharti)

19. Sapna Gautam (2019): Water quality monitoring in mining areas (Co-supervisor: Dr. M.K. Tiwari)

20. Iqura Malik (2019): An entropy theory based approach for generating vertical soil moisture profile using satellite derived near- surface soil moisture (Co-supervisor: Dr. Jorg Dietrich, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)

21. Navdesh Nirwan (2019): Analysis of residential water demand variables and water-energy nexus in urban water supply systems (Co-supervisor: Dr. M.K. Tiwari)

22. Godugu Kiran Kumar (2019): Environmental flow management for sustainable riverine Pisciculture

23. Hitesh Prasad Thakur (2018): Statistical downscaling of Global Circulation Model-Generated Precipitation Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms (Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)

24. Manas Ranjan Panda (2018): Feedback of land surface moisture fluxes on the local climate system

25. Yuvraj Siddharth (2017) Environmental Flow Assessment for Sustainable Ecosystem Management in the Tel River, Odisha

26. Debiprasad Sahoo (2017) Discharge Estimation at Ungauged River Sites using Remote Sensing Approach

27. Arghajeet Saha (2017) Impact of Climate Change on Streamflows of Kangsabati River Basin considering Reservoir Effect

28. Shailendra Kumar (2017) Water Budgeting in Urban Setup: A case of IIT Kharagpur Campus (Co-supervisor: Dr. M.K. Tiwari)

29. Ankur Srivastav (2016) Estimation of Grid-scale Actual Evapotranspiration Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC-3L) Model and MODIS-Terra Satellite Products (Co-supervisor: Prof. N.S. Raghuwanshi)

30. Saritha P.Gopalan (2014) Meso-scale modeling of the Baitarani River floods using Network Width Function approach

31. Soumyaranjan Sahoo (2014) Assessment of Subsurface Flow from an Ungauged Watershed Using Surficial Features

32. Aurobrata Das (2014) Real-time flood forecasting of Brahmani River Basin using MIKE11 HD-NAM model (Co-supervisor: Prof. S.N. Panda)

33. Malvika Bhatt (2014) Techno-feasibility study of Allahabad-Ballia reach of River Ganga for navigation using MIKE11 HD and GIS-RS

34. Pritam Biswas (2014) Arsenic-contaminated groundwater and its effects on human health-Policy experiments in a System Dynamic framework

35. Ranjeet Kumar Jha (2014) Simulation of Soil-water and Solute Transport Dynamics Under Paddy Land Use Condition Using HYDRUS-1D Model (Co-supervisor: Prof. R.K. Panda)

36. Anoop V.V. (2013) Estimating Runoff Generation Potential of Baitarani River Basin Using HEC-GeoHMS (Co-supervisor: Prof. S.N. Panda)

37. Trushnamayee Nanda (2013) Flood Forecasting in the Mahanadi River Basin Using Ensemble ANNs (Co-supervisor: Prof. C. Chatterjee)