Awards/Achievements

Awards & Achievements

• Received best paper presentation for the paper titled "Computation of Socio-economic Vulnerability for Densely Populated Surat City, India" in the Flood Forecasting and Mitigation Measures theme at HYDRO 2021 International Conference.

• Received best paper presentation for the paper titled "Assessment of vertical accuracy of freely available Global Digital Elevation Models for Heterogeneous terrains in India" in the Geospatial Technologies in Water Resources Engineering theme at HYDRO 2021 International Conference.

• Received best paper presentation for the paper titled "Investigation of Crop Evapotranspiration and Irrigation Water Requirement in the Ukai-Kakrapar Command Area, India" in the Hydrology and Hydraulic Modeling theme at HYDRO 2021 International Conference.

• Awarded two Best Papers in Hydraulic and Hydrologic Modelling theme of HYDRO 2020 International Conference hosted by NIT Rourkela during 26 – 28 March, 2021 for the papers titled “Identification of Hydrologically Efficient Regions in Semi-Arid Yerli Sub-Catchment of Upper Tapi Basin, India” and “Relative performance of Continuous and event based hydrological models for Dharoi sub-catchment of Sabarmati basin in India”.

• Awarded Best Paper in River Hydraulics theme of HYDRO 2020 International Conference hosted by NIT Rourkela during 26 – 28 March, 2021 for the paper titled “Hydrodynamic Modelling Of Middle Tapi River Using MIKE 11”.

• Awarded Best Paper in the theme 'Climate Change and Extreme Events' during HYDRO 2019 International Conference at Hyderabad, India during Dec. 18-20, 2019. [Co-authors: Priyank J. Sharma and V. Jothiprakash] 

• Received G. M. Nawathe Best Paper Award 2018 for best presentation during HYDRO 2017 held at LDCE, Ahmedabad for the paper titled "Assessing the Impact of Hathnur Reservoir on Hydrological Regime of Tapi River, India". [Co-authors: Priyank J. Sharma and V. Jothiprakash]

• Awarded Best Paper in the theme 'Climate Change Analysis' during HYDRO 2018 International Conference held at National Institute of Technology Patna during Dec. 19-21, 2018. [Co-authors: Priyank J. Sharma and V. Jothiprakash]

• Awarded Best Paper in Water Resources Engineering theme during the National Conference on "Next Frontiers in Civil Engineering: Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure" organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay during Nov. 30 - Dec. 01, 2018. [Co-authors: Priyank J. Sharma and V. Jothiprakash]

• Recipient of Visiting International Fellowship (VIF-2017) 2017 for attending ASCE EWRI Congress-2017 at Sacramento, California, USA, May 21-25, 2017.

• The Research paper ‘A 1D-2D coupled Hydrodynamic model for river flood prediction in a coastal urban flood plain’, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), Vol. 20(2), pp. 05014017-(1-18), Feb. 2015, by Timbadiya P.V., Patel, P. L. and Porey, P. D. was awarded as BEST CASE STUDY - 2015  by ASCE EWRI congress – May 2016, Florida, USA.

• The Research project ‘Erosion of non-uniform and bimodal sediments’ sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST) was rated under ‘Excellent’ grading during the review and final project completion presentation.

• A guided PhD Thesis titled ‘Incipient Motion and Bed Load Transport Characteristics of Unimodal and Bimodal Sediments by (DS08 CE 106) Shaileshkumar B Patel, has been awarded Professor U C Kothyari Best PhD Thesis award of Indian Society for Hydraulics for year 2012-2013 in  HYDRO-2013 at IIT Madras.

• The G M Nawathe Best Paper Puruskar was awarded for best paper, ‘Sustainable Irrigation Planning using two phase Multi- Objective Fuzzy linear programming approach’ presented in HYDRO-2012 at IIT Bombay.

• Invited for the talk on ‘Impact of climate change on fluvial processes’ in International   workshop on ‘Impacts of global warming from hydrological and hydraulic issues, March 16, 2010, Uji campus, Kyoto University, Japan.

• The G M Nawathe Best Paper Puruskar was awarded for best paper, ‘Incipient motion conditions of non-uniform sediments’ presented in HYDRO-2003 at CWPRS Pune. 

International Visits

• Japan – 2010

• Italy – 2012, 2017

• China – 2013

• Netherlands – 2015 

• USA – 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019

• UAE - 2024