Awards &  Recognition

"Springer Nature Author Service Award 2025" for my contribution as an Editorial Board Member to the Scientific Reports journal.

Our research paper titled "Nonoverlapping Block Stratified Random Sampling Approach for Assessment of Stationarity" was featured in the Editor’s Choice section of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE in July 2021.

Received Best Paper Presentation Award at the International Conference on Ecosystem Restoration for Resilience and Sustainability: Living with Nature (online) held at IIT Indore, India during June 05-07, 2021.

Awarded Prof. U. C. Kothyari - ISH Best Ph.D. thesis Award 2020 for my PhD thesis titled "Integrated Assessment of Hydroclimatic Variability Including Streamflow Modelling of a Climatically Heterogeneous Basin in India". The award was presented in the inaugural session (online) of HYDRO 2020 International Conference at NIT Rourkela on 26th March 2021.

Received Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards for the session at 25th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2020) held at NIT Rourkela, India on March 26-28, 2021. 

Awarded Best Paper in the theme 'Climate Change and Extreme Events' for the paper titled 'Hydroclimatic Teleconnections of large‐scale circulations on variability of monsoon inflows into Ukai reservoir, India' in HYDRO 2019 International conference held at Osmania University, Hyderabad during Dec. 18-20, 2019. [Co-authors: P. L. Patel and V. Jothiprakash]

Received G. M. Nawathe Best Paper Award 2018 for best presentation during HYDRO 2017 International conference held at LDCE, Ahmedabad for the paper titled 'Assessing the impact of Hathnur reservoir on hydrological regime of Tapi River, India'. The award was received during the Inaugural ceremony of HYDRO 2018 at NIT Patna on Dec. 19, 2018. [Co-authors: P. L. Patel and V. Jothiprakash]

Awarded Best Paper in the theme 'Climate Change Analysis' for the paper titled 'Changes in monthly hydro-climatic indices for middle Tapi basin, India' in HYDRO 2018 International conference held at National Institute of Technology Patna during Dec. 19-21, 2018. [Co-authors: P. L. Patel 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: P. L. Patel and V. Jothiprakash]

Received International Travel Support (ITS) from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India on 31/05/2018 for attending 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2018) at Palermo, Italy.

The INSPIRE Fellowship has been upgraded from JRF to SRF with effect from 19/07/2017 by DST (Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of  Science & Technology, Government of India).

Awarded INSPIRE Fellow [IF150634] by DST (Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of  Science & Technology, Government of India) in 2015 batch.

Felicitated by Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL) Vadodara for Outstanding Career Achievement during M. Tech. (WRE) at SVNIT Surat in August 2015.

Awarded Institute Gold Medal for securing first position in M. Tech. in Civil Engineering with specialization in Water Resources Engineering in February 2015.

Qualified GATE 2010, GATE 2011 and GATE 2012.

Won 3rd prize in elocution competition organized by Indian Water Works Association, Vadodara Centre and Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, MSU Baroda in 2009.

Expert Talk on "Climatic and Anthropogenic Influences on Water Quantity and Quality" in a workshop on “Save Water Save Life: Recent Trends and Advancements in Water Management and its Treatment” held at IPS Academy, Indore during August 21-25, 2023.

Expert Lecture on “Big Data Applications for Water Resources Management” at a virtual FDP on “Advances in  Water Resources Management” organized by NIT Andhra Pradesh during 16-20 May 2022.

Expert Lecture on "Remote Sensing in Hydrology" at AICTE-QIP Short Term Course on  Remote Sensing for Space And Atmosphere organized by the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering at IIT Indore during 25-30 April 2022.

Expert Lecture on "Big Data Application in Reservoir Planning and Management Considering Climate Variability" at an Online Training Program on 'Big Data Applications in Water Resources and Hydro Informatics' conducted by to be conducted by National Water Academy, CWC, Pune during 17-21 January 2022.

Expert Lecture on "Research Methodology for Beginners" at a student workshop organized by ASCE Student Chapter at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh on 25 September 2021. 

Expert Lecture on "Climate Change Impact on Urban Floods" in a one-week short-term training programme on 'Hydrological Modelling, Climate Change and Soft Computing Application in Water Resources Engineering' organized by Karmaveer Adv. Baburao Ganpatrao Thakare College of Engineering, Nashik on 25 August 2021.

Expert Lecture on "Flood estimation in India: Theory and Practice" at the Department of Civil Engineering, Terna Engineering College, Navi Mumbai on May 04, 2021.

Expert Lecture on “Climate Change Impact on Urban Floods” at one-week short-term training program on ‘Design of Storm Water Drainage Systems as per CPHEEO-2019’ during March 15-19, 2021 at SVNIT Surat.

Expert Lecture on "Flood estimation in India: Theory and Practices" at one-week short-term training program on 'Design of Water Related Infrastructure in Smart City' during July 27-31, 2020 at SVNIT Surat.

Expert Lecture on "Trend analysis of hydroclimatic data" at one week short-term training program  on 'Hydraulic and Hydrologic Modelling: Concepts and Applications' during September 30 - October 04, 2019 at SVNIT Surat.

Technical Talk on "Identification of critical reaches including outcomes of field visits" at one day Workshop on Morphological Study of Tapi River using Remote Sensing Technique on July 21, 2017 at SVNIT Surat in association with Central Water Commission (CWC), New Delhi.

Invited Talk on “Ethics in technical education – Role of researchers” at two day Workshop on ‘Ethics in Technical Education: Challenges and Solutions’ during November 18-19, 2016 at SVNIT Surat.

Reviewer, Acta Geophysica (publisher: Springer) - 01

Reviewer, Water (publisher: MDPI) – 02

Reviewer, Scientific Reports (publisher: Springer Nature) – 01 

Reviewer, Sustainability (publisher: MDPI) – 01 

Reviewer, Frontiers in Environmental Science (publisher: IOP) – 01 

Reviewer, 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2021 International) – 10 

Reviewer, Remote Sensing (publisher: MDPI) – 02

Reviewer, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (publisher: ASCE) – 08

Reviewer, Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research (publisher: Taylor and Francis) - 01

Reviewer, International Journal of Climatology (publisher: Wiley) – 02

Reviewer, SN Applied Sciences (publisher: Springer) – 01 

Reviewer, Atmospheric Research (publisher: Elsevier) – 04 

Reviewer, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (publisher: Elsevier) – 01 

Reviewer, Advances in Meteorology (publisher: Hindawi) – 01 

Reviewer, Science of the Total Environment (publisher: Elsevier) – 05

Reviewer contribution in the book titled 'Advances in Streamflow Forecasting: From Traditional to Modern Approaches' (publisher: Elsevier) – 01

Reviewer, Hydrological Sciences Journal (publisher: Taylor and Francis) – 05

Reviewer, Alexandria Engineering Journal (publisher: Elsevier) – 01

Life Member, Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH), [LM-1072]

Annual Member, International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), [47033]

Life Member, Association of Agrometeorologists (AAI), [LM-1107]

Life Member, Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) [LM-2016-7629]

Life Member, Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH) [LM-1903]

Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) [11323441]

Co-organizing Secretary, 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering to be held at Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh during December 22-24, 2022.

Co-organizing Secretary, 25th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering held at SVNIT Surat during December 23-25, 2021.

Member, “Design of Structure and Syllabi of Semesters 3rd to 8th for 2020-21 batch onwards” of Civil Engineering Department at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh from March to June 2021.

Student Coordinator in “National Conference on Water Resources and Flood Management with special reference to Flood Modelling” (WRFM 2016) organized at SVNIT Surat during October 14-15, 2016. 

Assisted in “Development of CoE Library Facility” through purchase of technical books/manuals/monographs related to research in the field of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources at SVNIT Surat. 

Assisted in Tender document preparation for “Furniture Requirement for Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Water Resources and Flood Management”, SVNIT Surat.

Assisted in Tender document preparation for “Equipment for Fluid Mechanics Laboratory”, Water Resources Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, SVNIT Surat.

Assisted in Tender document preparation and work execution for “Water Circulation System” in Advanced Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, SVNIT Surat.

Assisted in preparation of documents for “PG Accreditation” in Water Resources Engineering Section, Civil Engineering Department, SVNIT Surat.