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WEAI 2026, Bangkok
WEAI 2026, Bangkok
April 2026, Presenting at the WEAI annual conference in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand. See you there!
Understanding the Nature and Consequences of Groundwater Decline in India
Presenter: Saif Ali, Coauthors: J.V. Meenakshi, Kushagra Gupta, Gaurav Arora
[082] USING GEOSPATIAL DATA WITH RELEVANT ECONOMETRIC TECHNIQUES TO ADDRESS ECONOMIC ISSUES IN ASIA, Fri Apr 3, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | TZ: Asia/Jakarta
Organizers, Gaurav Arora, Nattapong Puttanapong (Thammasat Universtiy)
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IEG Resilience Symposium
IEG Resilience Symposium
Dec 2024
I am speaking at the symposium on Resilience at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). I will present ongoing work on groundwater level dynamics and agricultural land-use in the Gangetic Basin.
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India Sustainable Growth Conference, LSE
India Sustainable Growth Conference, LSE
May 2024
I am participating as a speaker in the India Sustainable Growth Conference co-organized by the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics and the Indian Statistical Institute Delhi. The conference is being held at the LSE from May 2-4, 2024.
Kanishka Kacker and Ridhima Gupta received the award from Vic Adamowicz, Chair of the Research Committee. Photo: Emmanuel Richardson.
Best Discussion Paper Award
Best Discussion Paper Award
Oct 2023
A paper co-authored with Dr. Kanishka Kacker (ISI Delhi) and Dr. Ridhima Gupta titled Does traffic congestion pose health hazards? Evidence from a highly congested and polluted city, won the 2023 Peter Berck’s Best Discussion Paper Award conferred by the EfD Initiative, Gothenburg, Sweden. This paper looks at the emission-related health impacts of traffic congestion in Delhi using high resolution Uber and Twitter data. It uses and IV estimation approach where the instruments are constructed using NLP analysis of traffic-related tweets. You can read the discussion paper here. More details and other award winners @ the EfD site.
March 2024 @IIT Roorkee
My paper (with Dr. Gaurav Arora) titled “Groundwater Level Dynamics and Agricultural Land- use Change in the Gangetic Basin” has been accepted for Roorkee Water Conclave (RWC) 2024 in the theme “Water Resource Assessment and Modelling”. See you there!
Distinguished Lecture @ Jamea tul Hidaya, Jaipur, RJ
Distinguished Lecture @ Jamea tul Hidaya, Jaipur, RJ
On July 21-22, 2023 @Jamea tul Hidaya
I attended a Distinguished Lecture at the convocation ceremony of the Jamea tul Hidaya in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The lecture was given by Hazrat Maulana Noorul Hasan Rashid sahab Kandhelvi. The title was "History of Hadith Scholarship in India." He narrated how the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) reached India through Sind all the way to Shah Waliullah Dehlvi.
On July 3-22, 2023 @Jamia Millia Islamia
I was invited to lecture in the 3-Week Short-Term Training Program on AI & ML organized by the Department of Computer Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia between July 3rd and 7th, 2023. We discussed the fundamentals of AI and machine learning and Python programming.
On July 19th, 2023 @CSIR-CRRI
My student, Faraz Idris, has been selected to present our work on social media analysis for traffic congestion management at the Young Researchers Conclave organized by the CSIR-CRRI (Center for Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Road Research Institute).
UPDATE: This work was awarded the Third Prize in the TechnoBlitz contest. Congratulations to Faraz!
World Water Day '23 @ Jamia Hamdard
World Water Day '23 @ Jamia Hamdard
On March 22nd, 2023 @JamiaHamdard
Invited by the Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard to deliver a talk on World Water Day 2023. Mirages and Miracles: The Limits to Human Control of Water and Nature., World Water Day, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
On June 20 – 24, 2022 @IGIDR
Invited by IGIDR, Mumbai to run a 5-day workshop on Geostatistical Methods for Economic Analysis (GSMEA) using R, ArcGIS along with Dr. Gaurav Arora. We discussed geo-spatial data manipulation, variogram estimation and spatial regression.
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