Achievements

  1. Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research (Best Thesis Award), IIT Bombay, 2021

  2. Received AGU general student travel grant to attend AGU Fall Meeting 2019, in San Francisco, USA.

  3. Received AGU general student travel grant to attend AGU Fall Meeting 2018, in Washington D. C., USA

  4. Received SERB International Travel Support to attend AGU Fall Meeting 2018

  5. GATE fellowship of Ministry of Human Resource Development from 2014 till 2020

  6. Secured 5th rank in Bachelor of Engineering examination (Civil Engineering) from University of Mumbai



Education

2016-2021 - Ph. D. (Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai)

2014-2016 - MTech (Indian Institue of Technology, Mumbai)

2008-2012- Bachelor of Engineering (University of Mumbai)

EXPERIENCE

Reviewer:

International Journals

  • Journal of Hydrology

  • Journal of Water and Climate Change

Lecturer:


St. John College of Engineering & Technology, Palghar [2012-2014]

Was involved in teaching different courses of Civil Engineering to undergraduate students.


Project experience:


Part of DST-CNRS project on SWOT validation in Mahanadi Basin

Dec 2019 – On Going

Role: I am actively involved in the collaborative work with the French research team on the proposed SWOT mission with Dr. Stephane Calamant. The project is sponsored by DST-CNRS.

Collaborative work on improving groundwater estimates with CSIRO

May 2018 – On Going

Role: The land data assimilation methodology proposed as a part of my Ph.D. thesis is being implemented in improving groundwater predictions over the Indo-Gangetic basin in collaboration with Senior Scientist Dr. Sreekanth of CSIRO, Australia.

Extended range hydro-meteorological forecasts for West Bengal at District Level

2017–2018

Role: Was involved in improving the land surface prediction of this project

Conducting an on-field survey of L-band microwave radiometer

April 2019

Role: Planning and conducting a survey using state of the art L-band microwave radiometer in IIT Bombay

Organizing training workshop on Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrology and Water Management

15th July – 19th July 2019

Role: Was actively involved in organizing the workshop conducted by my Ph.D. Guide Prof. J. Indu.