Specialisation:

Water Resources Engineering

Major Professional Contributions:

• Development of innovative and adoptable multi-objective multi-reservoir operation models

using evolutionary algorithms considering different inflow scenarios due to climate change

which will substantially improve integrated river basin management.

• Development of a generalized geomorphological recession flow model for river basins.

• Development of innovative time series data mining techniques to study droughts and floods

in India using climate inputs.

• Development of a novel approach based on copula kernel density estimates to validate

satellite soil moisture retrievals.

• Estimation of daily actual evapotranspiration over Cauvery basin using multi-satellite optical

and microwave data for better irrigation management.

Consultancy Areas:

Based on his research experience he has provided valuable consultancy services to Narmada Control Authority for integrated operation of dams; Bhakra Dam (BBMB) to operate the spillway for a revised PMF; Tungabhadra Dam (Karnataka Govt.) to assess the climate change impact; Krishna Tribunal (AP Govt.); IWMI, Colombo; Hindustan Unilever Ltd. for the performance assessment of irrigation tanks; among others.

Sector Associated With:

Water resources engineering; climate change impact on water resources; optimal multi-reservoir operation; remote sensing & GIS applications in hydrology and water resources.

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Water resources engineering; climate change impact on water resources; optimal multi-reservoir operation; remote sensing & GIS applications in hydrology and water resources.

Professional Experience

·       Registrar, I.I.Sc., Bangalore.  (March-November, 2026)

·       Professor, HAG, Dept. of Civil Engg., I.I.Sc., Bangalore.  (Sep 2017 to date)

·       Faculty Member in Dept. of Civil Engg., I.I.Sc., Bangalore.  (May 2002 to date)

·       Edward M Curtis Visiting Professor, Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, (Aug 2024 to May 2025)

·       Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, I.I.Sc., Bangalore.  (Mar 2014 to Jan 2020)

·       Faculty Member in Dept. of Civil Engg., I.I.T., Kharagpur.  (Feb 1994 to May 2002)

·       Scientist, National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, India. (Sept 1992 to Jan 1994)

Keywords

Applied hydrology; climate hydrology; climate change: stochastic hydrology; water resource systems,; integrated river basin planning and management; AI; ML; deep learning; evolutionary algorithms; fuzzy logic; remote sensing; GIS.