Dr. Sayantan Ganguly
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Rupnagar, Punjab 140001, India
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I am an Assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. My areas of expertise and research include Water Resources & Hydraulic Engineering, and Hydrogeology. For any queries please use the details below
Email: sayantan.ganguly@iitrpr.ac.in / sayforall@gmail.com
Ph. (office): +91 1881 24 2198
Latest Updates
Look out for our presentations "Assessment of the evolution of groundwater quality for the state of California, United States using weighted index overlay analysis" in #EGU24; Oral Tuesday, 16 Apr, 15:30–15:40 (CEST)
PICO | Friday, 19 Apr, 08:37–08:39 (CEST).
Dolon Banerjee's work entitled "Forecasting Future Groundwater Recharge from Rainfall Under Different Climate Change Scenarios Using Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning Techniques" gets published in Water Resources Management . Read the article Here.
Sayantan Ganguly visits the School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, to serve as a resource person and deliver a lecture on "Forecasting future groundwater recharge and groundwater level scenario in northwestern India using machine learning techniques" for the workshop titled "Groundwater Exploration for Sustainable Water Resources Management” held on 8th Feb 2024.
The Indian Express covers our recent project on the replenishment of sand in the rivers of Punjab. For the report, click Here
Rohtash Goswami's work titled "Waste Heat Recovery from the Biomass Engine for effective power generation using a New Array-based system" gets published in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment. Read the article here.
Thallam Prashanth presented his work "Groundwater vulnerability assessment using GIS-based DRASTIC model and Electrical Resistivity Tomography method in and around Rupnagar City, Punjab, India" at the Hydro 2023 International Conference held NIT Warangal during 21-23rd Dec 2023. Prashanth also bags the Best Paper Award (Third Position) under the theme 'Groundwater Hydrology.' Congratulations Prashanth!!.
Rohtash Goswami, defends his thesis titled "Optimization of gasification process and waste heat recovery for power and distilled water production" (revised title) successfully on 18th Dec 2023. Congratulations Rohtash!!
AICTE approves the application of Sayantan Ganguly to write a textbook on Hydraulic Engineering for B.Tech third-year degree course.
Sayantan Ganguly attends the third annual meeting of the Mediterranean Geosciences Union (MedGU) in Istanbul, Turkey, from 26-30th Nov 2023, to present a conference paper, "Figuring Out Suitable Locations for Artificial Groundwater Recharge Based on AHP-ANN and Electrical Resistivity Survey."
Rohtash Goswami, Ph.D. student advised jointly by Dr. Ranjan Das (Mechanical Engineering Department) and myself, submits his Ph.D. thesis titled "Use of Biomass Gasification for Various Domestic Applications." on 25th Sep 2023.
Rohtash's conference paper "Performance Analysis of Salt Gradient Thermal Storage Device Driven by Waste Heat, "from the 3rd International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME) 2023, held at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, is published as a journal proceedings in IEEE Xplore. Read the paper Here
Thallam Prashanth's paper presented at the conference "Recent Development in River Corridor Management (RCRM) 2022 is not published as a book chapter in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering book series. Read the paper here
A science education/popular science article titled "Nature's Benevolence and Disrupting Human Interference: Instances From Water Resources is published in Resonance-Journal of Science Education. Link: https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/028/08/1281-1297.
Mr. Randhir Kumar joins the SWIM Lab research group.
Thallam Prashanth and Shreya Ganguly's papers in the proceedings of the Hydro 2021 International Conference are now published as book chapters in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Read the papers here
Times of India covers our research on the application of machine learning algorithms on groundwater recharge prediction in Punjab. Read the story below
SWIM Lab attends the European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2023 in Vienna. Oral presentations by Shreya Ganguly (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-160.html) and Dolon Banerjee (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-361.html), and poster presentation by Thallam Prashanth (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-300.html).
Dolon Banerjee's review article entitled "A Review on the Research Advances in Groundwater–Surface Water Interaction with an Overview of the Phenomenon" gets published in Water. Read the paper Here.
Our research group members, Thallam Prashanth, Shreya Ganguly and Dolon Banerjee, present their work online at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, held in Chicago, USA.
A science education article entitled "Nature’s benevolence and disrupting human interferences: instances from water resources" is accepted for publication in Resonance: Journal of Science Education.
Review article entitled "A Comprehensive Review on Solar Pond Research in India: Past, Present and Future" authored in collaboration with Dr. Ranjan Das, is published in the Solar Energy journal (Elsevier). Link to read: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1fxyW,tRdKnfL.
Thallam Prashanth receives the Best Paper Presentation Award at the International Conference on River Corridor Research and Management 2022 under the theme Fluvial Hydraulics and Hydrology. The conference was held during 30th May-1st June 2022 and was organized by IIT Guwahati in association with IIT Jammu.
Shreya Ganguly, Thallam Prashanth and Dolon Banerjee present their work at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022.
A science education/popular science article titled "Subsurface Storage of Water -What, Why and How?" is published in Resonance-Journal of Science Education (by Indian Academy of Sciences). Pl find a copy of the paper @ here https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/027/04/0561-0578.
Shreya Ganguly receives the Best Paper Presentation Award (First Prize) for the paper titled "Numerical modelling of transport and fate of Chromium (VI) in sub-surface porous media" presented at the Hydro-2021 International Conference under the theme 'Environmental Hydraulics'.
Shreya Ganguly and Thallam Prashanth attend the Hydro-2021 International Conference organized by the Dept. of Civil Engineering, SVNIT Surat, India, under the aegis of the Indian Society for Hydraulics during 23-25 December 2021.
Shreya Ganguly's paper "Implementation of managed aquifer recharge techniques in India" is published in the Current Science journal. Pl find it Here.
Our paper titled "Investigation of the Potential and Thermal Performance of a Proposed Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System at Ropar, India" is presented at the World Geothermal Congress 2020+1 held at Reykjavik. Iceland in hybrid mode. Pl find a copy Here.