EDUCATION

• B. Tech: Kerala Agricultural University, 1991
• M. Tech: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 1994
• Ph D.: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INDIA

Scientist, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (November 1996 to December 2002)

Visiting Faculty, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur (January to May 2003)

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras (May 2003 to March 2009)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras (March 2009 to July 2013)

Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras (July 2013 to till date)

ABROAD

Visiting Faculty, University of Arkansas, USA: (Feb to July 2005)

Visiting Research Scientist, Purdue University, USA: (May to July 2007)

Visiting Research Scientist, Purdue University, USA: (May to July 2008)

Visiting Research Scientist, Purdue University, USA: (June 2009)

Visiting Research Scientist, University of Kiel, Germany (May to June 2010)

International Faculty, Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology, University Algarve, Faro, Portugal (May to June 2011)

Visiting Research Scientist, Purdue University, USA: (May to July 2012)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (January 2015 till date)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Hydrologic Modelling, Stochastic Hydrology, Hydrological forecasting

Predictions in Ungauged Basins, Uncertainty Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis

Irrigation Water Management

Application of ANN and Fuzzy systems to Hydrology and Water Resources

Knowledge Extraction from and Knowledge Embedding in Soft Computing based Models