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HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND REMOTE SENSING GROUP

Dr. Dibyandu Roy (Post Doctoral)

PhD in Civil Engineering (IIT Kharagpur) , M.Tech in Civil Engineering (IIEST Shibpur), B.Tech in Civil Engineering (Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata)

Dr. Milaa Zyad Murshan (Post doctoral)

PhD in Geodesy and Geoinformatics (IIT Kanpur), ME in Civil Engineering (Gujarat Technological University), BE in Civil Engineering/Topographic (University of Aleppo/Syria)

Shahana Shirin

SWOT Mission for Hydrology (PhD ongoing from July 2024)
B. Tech in Civil Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala (2009-2013). M. Tech in Water Resources and Hydro-informatics, University of Calicut, Kerala (2013-2015).

Mohammed Iqlash S

B.E in Civil Engineering at Kamaraj college of Engineering & Technology, Madurai and graduated in 2019. M.E in Irrigation Water Management at College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai and graduated in 2022.

Kavita Krishnamurthy

BTECH : Civil Engineering, Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai (2011 to 2015) MTECH: Environmental Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Udupi Karnataka (2020-2022)

Pavan Sai Goud Goddu

Radars and Wildfires (PhD ongoing from July 2023)
Master of Technology in Remote Sensing and GIS Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO Bachelor of Planning, Year: 2016 to 2020, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.

Sudarsan N

Topic: Optimization of groundwater planning using Data Assimilation (PhD ongoing from January 2023 Under IITB Monash ; Co- Supervisors: Prof. Guido (Monash University) &Dr. Sreekanth (CSIRO)
PhD (Ongoing from January 2023)

B.E in Civil Engineering, Year: 2013 to 2017, Tagore Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

M.tech in Geo-informatics, Year: 2017 to 2019, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal.

Work Experiences:
Junior Research Fellow - National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee;
Project Associate II - Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University, Chennai &
Senior GIS Executive - NeoGeoInfo Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Agartala.

 

Arya Lakshmi

Topic: Radar remote sensing and Wildfires (Co supervisor: Prof. Karthikeyan Lanka (CSRE))
Ph.D (Ongoing from Jan 2023)

B.Tech - TKM College of Engineering, Kollam (2013-2017)
M.Tech - Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur (2018-2020)

Ajay Sharma

Topic: Satellite Meteorology
PhD. (Ongoing from July 2022)

Anjita N A

Topic: Radar Entomology for Tracking Desert Locusts
Ph.D. (Ongoing from July 2021)

Nitish Kumar

Topic: Impact of climate changes on lake levels using Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission
M.Tech+PhD dual Degree - PMRF Awardee (Ongoing from July 2019)

Manu K Soman

Assimilation of Satellite Altimetry data for hydrological modelling over Indian river basins
M.Tech+PhD dual Degree - PMRF Awardee (Ongoing from July 2018)

Richa Prajapati

Topic: Towards assimilation of SMAP and SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature into a land surface model
PhD (Completed Presynopsis)

Joint supervision with Prof. Jeffrey Walker through IITB Monash University

Girish Patidar

Topic: Examining potential of SWOT in Hydrometeorology
PhD (Ongoing from July 2019)

Joint supervision with Prof. Subhankar Karmakar through IDP Climate Studies

Vinayak H

Topic: Land atmosphere interaction using soil moisture and re-analysis data over Indian sub-continent
Ph.D (Completed) Present Affiliation: Research Engineer (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Present Affiliation: Research Engineer

                             Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Sooraj Krishnan

Topic: Analysis and modelling of microwave emission data using land surface model
Ph.D (Completed) Present Affiliation Research Associate (IIT Bombay)

Ankita Pradhan

Topic: Effect of Precipitation Sampling Error on Simulated Hydrological Fluxes
Ph.D (Completed) Present Affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Ankita receives the AGU travel grant for year 2019
Ankita receives the AGU travel grant and presented our work in AGU Fall  meeting 2017

Kaushlendra Verma

Topic: Potential of SWOT mission over Inland water bodies of India
Ph.D (Completed) Present Affiliation: Post Doctoral Researcher, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Present Affiliation: Post Doctoral Researcher, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Graduated in 2022

Thiruvengadam P

Topic: Data Assimilation in Radar Meteorology
Ph.D (Completed) Present Affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Oklahoma)

Affiliation post PhD: Post Doctoral researcher at "Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones" (LACy), a joint research lab between Météo-France, the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS) and the University of La Réunion.

Graduated in 2022.

Jointly guided by Prof. Subimal Ghosh

Fullbright Kalam fellowship awardee

Thiruvengadam receives the AGU travel grant and presents our work at Fall meeting 2018

Nair Akhilesh Sivaraman

Topic: Data Assimilation using Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Surface Hydrologic Applications
M.Tech + Ph.D Dual degree (Completed) Present Affiliation: Post Doctoral researcher, University of Bergen, Norway

Present Affiliation: Post Doctoral researcher, University of Bergen, Norway

Akhilesh recieves the AGU Travel grant for 2019
Akhilesh receives the AGU travel grant and presents our work in Fall meeting 2018
Akhilesh presented our work at the International Workshop/Conference on Coupled Data Assimilation at Toulouse, France, October 18 - 21, 2016

Rohit Mangla

Topic: Radiative Transfer Modelling and Statistical Characterization of Convective systems using Microwave Remote Sensing
Ph.D (Completed) : Present Affiliation: Research Scientist at CRISP (NUS Singapore)

Previous affiliation post PhD: Post Doctoral Researcher, Meteo France, Toulouse