CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Hydroclimatology (2019)
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India
- Supervisors: Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal and Prof. Arup Kumar Sarma
- Dissertation title: Assessment of the resilience of Indian river basins to droughts under climate change scenarios
- Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Water Resources Engineering (2016)
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India
- Supervisor: Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal
- Thesis title: Identification of homogeneous drought regions in western India and regional drought prediction.
- Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Civil Engineering (2014)
- Department of Civil Engineering,
- National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India
Research Experience
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Visiting Researcher
- Aug 2018 to Dec 2018
- Indo-US Science Technology Forum (IUSSTF) sponsored Water Advanced Research Innovation (WARI) program
- McGill University
- Graduate Research Trainee
- Mar 2018 to June 2018
- Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (SICI) sponsored Shatri Research Student Fellowship program
Awards and Recognition
- Competitive Fellowships
- 2018 – Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowship (Canada) – Doctoral Student Category
- 2018 – Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Program (USA) – Doctoral Student Category
- 2015 – Future Civil Fellowship - Study Tour for Elite Students to Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
- Scholarships
- 2016 to 2019 – IIT Guwahati institute fellowship for PhD program.
- 2014 to 2016 – Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India fellowship for two years during Master of Technology (M Tech) program.
- 2014 & 2016 – Two times recipient of ‘Mukhya Mantri Protsahan Yojna’ scholarship from the Government of Himachal Pradesh for M. Tech in 2014 and PhD in 2016.
- Presentations
- 2018 – Outstanding poster award: Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) Digital Agriculture Community workshop at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US.