CV

Education

• Postdoc (Jan 2024-present)
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA
  PIs: Prof. Christopher P. Higgins, Prof. Kamini Singha, Prof. Tissa H. Illangasekare
  Work title: Soil column study for investigating PFAS retention and migration in heterogeneous soils.
• Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering (July 2016-Feb 2023)
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Assam, India
  Supervisor: Dr. Sreeja Pekkat
  Thesis title: Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Flow beneath Mini Disc Infiltrometer for Estimating Wetting Characteristics of Soils.
• Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Water Resources Engineering (July 2014-June 2016)
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Assam, India
  Supervisor: Dr. Sreeja Pekkat
  Thesis title: Estimating soil hydraulic properties from experimental and numerical inversion using disc infiltrometers. {CGPA - 9.22/10.0}
• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Civil Engineering (2013)
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang, Odisha, India
  Supervisor: Prof. Bikash C. Panda
  Thesis title: Performance of recycled aggregate in concrete. {CGPA - 8.63/10.0}

  Work Experience (at IIT Guwahati -2016-2022)

• Teaching Assistant
  • Engineering Hydrology NPTEL Online Certification Course (Under Graduate Course), (Jan-April 2022)
  • Engineering Hydrology laboratory (Under Graduate Course, July-Nov 2020, Jan-May 2021)
  • Transient flow analysis (Post Graduate Course, July-Nov 2019, Jan-May 2020)
  • Advanced Fluid Mechanics (Post Graduate Course, July-Nov 2018, Jan-May 2019)
  • River Engineering (Post Graduate Course, July-Nov 2017, Jan-May 2018)
  • Engineering Drawing Laboratory (Under Graduate Course, July-Nov 2016, Jan-May 2017)
• Volunteership
  • Student volunteer at 16th Annual meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, (28th July-2nd Aug 2019)
  • Student volunteer at International Conference of Vibrational Problem, Organized by IIT Guwahati and IŞIK University (29th Nov-2nd Dec 2017)

Awards and Recognition

• Grants
  • 2023-International Travel Support by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for participating in “8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2023), Greece (May 2023)
• Scholarships
  • 2016 to 2021 – Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India fellowship for five years during 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.
    
  • (2010-11) - LANCO Foundation Merit Award for excellent performance in Department of Civil Engineering during Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) program.
    
• Presentations
  • Third prize in Poster presentation at Research Conclave, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India, (14th-17th March 2019) during PhD.
    
  • Best paper award under theme Hydrological analysis in oral presentation in HYDRO Conference, NIT Patna, Bihar, India (19th-21st Dec 2018) during PhD.
    

Technical Skills

• Hydrologic Models: HYDRUS, RETC, VS2DRTI

Workshops /Trainings (Attended)

• TEQIP-III Sponsored webinar for one-week Workshop on “Research and Practices in Civil Engineering (RPCE-2020)” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, IGIT Sarang (August, 2020)
• Training course “Integrated 1D and 2D River Flood Modelling using MIKE FLOOD” at Assam Engineering College, Guwahati (November 2018)
• Latex Workshop at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (Sept 2017)
• Workshop on “Advance Remote sensing and GIS: Methods and Applications” at IIT Guwahati (October, 2016)
• Indo- Japan Workshop for “Rainfall Disaster and Human Adaptability” at IIT Guwahati (March, 2016)
• GIAN course on “Optimization Methods to Ground Water Resources Management” at IIT Guwahati (March, 2016)