Function and Responsibilities:

Research Scientist in the section of Hydrology. Currently working on the following project.

AVOSS – “Impact-based forecasting of heavy rain and flash floods at different scales: potentials, uncertainties and limitations”

Research Interests:

• Compound and cascading events
• Hydrological extremes
• Development of Impact-based forecasting methods
• Development of spatial data.
• Prediction in un-gauged basins (PUB).
• Machine Learning

Career:

Dec'2023-present: Research Scientist, Section 4.4 Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

Jan’2020-Nov'2023: Doctoral researcher (Prime Minister's Research Fellow), Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, India

Oct’2021-Sep'2022: Visiting doctoral researcher (DAAD Funding), Section 4.4 Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

Dec’2018-Dec’2019: Junior research fellow at Department of Civil Engineering, MVGR College of Engineering (A)

Education:

Jan’2020-Nov'2023: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)

Department of Hydrology, IIT–Roorkee, India

Aug’2016-Aug’2018: Master of Technology, Hydraulics, Coastal & Harbor Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering, Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India

Aug’2011-Apr’2015: Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering

GMR Institute of Technology, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India

Projects:

AVOSS

Awards:

2023    SYSTA Grant to attend the STAHY 2023 Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2022    Best Paper Award at the 2nd Roorkee Water Conclave in 2022, which was organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and the National Institute of Hydrology in Roorkee, India
2021    DAAD fellowship by the Federal Republic of Germany
2021    Prime Minister's Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India
2021    INSPIRE Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
2020    Travel grant from the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences to participate in the 6th IAHR Europe Congress 2020 in Warsaw, Poland
2020    Institute assistantship to pursue a PhD at IIT Roorkee, India
2018    Institute Gold Medal and Cash Prize for getting 1st rank in M.Tech. at Andhra University, India
2018    Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Sciences, & Management, organized by RGM College of Engineering & Technology in Nandyal, India