INTERESTS
GIS applications in water resources engineering with specific focus on river channels; surface water hydrology; river hydraulics; cyberinfrastructure for hydrology; water in developing world.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Professor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University
- Associate Professor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2013-2018
- Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2007 to 2013.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2006 to 2007.
- Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Jan 2006 to Aug 2006.
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, 2004 to 2006.
- Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, 2001 to 2004.
- Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering Hydrology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Jan 2000 to Dec 2000.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Research Intern, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, CA, Summer 2002.
- Project Engineer, Montgomery Watson Harza, India, 1997 to 1999.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Individual

1. Graduate Student Mentorship Award from Purdue University College of Engineering (2022)
   
2. Highly Commended Paper Award from CIWEM for a journal article in the Journal of Flood Risk Management (2020)
   
3. Purdue University “Seed for Success” – Award given to all principal investigators and co-investigators garnering awards of $1 million or more (2018)
   
4. Indiana Water Resources Association's Outstanding Achievement Award for work related to flood prediction and mapping for Indiana streams (2018)
   
5. Indiana Geographic Information Council's "Excellence in GIS" Award in Education and Nonprofit category for Soil-Based Floodplain Maps for Indiana (2017)
   
6. Purdue’s Civil Engineering Roy E. & Myrna G. Wansik Research Award (2016)
   
7. “Seed for Success” award – Purdue University Award given to all investigators garnering research funding of $1 million or more (2014).
   
8. Purdue’s Zimmerman Civil Engineering Innovation Award. (2011)
   
9. Co-recipient of Quentin Martin Best Practice Paper Award for the journal article “Linking GIS, Hydraulic Modeling, and Tabu Search for Optimizing a Water Level- Monitoring Network in South Florida” in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. (2011)
   
10. Outstanding Reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. (2010)
    
11. Irish Government Fellowship for pursuing MSc (Hydrology) in Ireland (1999).
    
12. Ranked first at the May 1997 Bachelor of Engineering exams at Shivaji University, India.
    

With student and other colleagues

1. Adnan Rajib (graduate student, Purdue University)- First place winner at the 2016 Association of State Floodplain Managers' Student Paper Competition for his paper “Large Scale High Resolution Flood Inundation Mapping” (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade and Zhu Liu)
2. Jessica Holberg (graduate student, Purdue University) – Second place winner of the Graduate Division of the ASCE Environmental Water Resource Institute's 2015 Student Technical Poster Contest for her paper on “The effect of HEC-HMS Soil Moisture Accounting on hydrologic simulation” (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade)
3. Siddharth Saksena (graduate student, Purdue University) – First place winner of the Graduate Division of the ASCE Environmental Water Resource Institute's 2015 Student Technical Paper Contest for his paper on “Investigating the Role of DEM Resolution and Accuracy on Flood Inundation Mapping” (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade)
4. Adnan Rajib (graduate student, Purdue University) People's Choice Award at Purdue University's Environmental Science and Engineering's 2014 Symposium for the poster: "RWater: A Cyber-enabled Data-driven Tool for Enhancing Hydrology Education" (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade)
5. Younghun Jung (graduate student, Purdue University) - 2nd place at the 2011 Association of State Floodplain Managers' Student Paper Competition for his presentation on " Uncertainty Quantification in Flood Inundation Mapping" (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade)
6. Sanjiv Kumar (graduate student, Purdue University) – Winner of 2010 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award (Hydrology Section) for his poster “Future Water Resource Scenarios for USA: Effects of Land Use/Cover Change, Climate Change and Human Disturbance” (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade and Bryan Pijanowski)
7. Sanjiv Kumar (graduate student, Purdue University) – Winner of 2009 AGU Spring Assembly Outstanding Student Paper Award (Hydrology Section) for his presentation “CCSM Modeling for studying the impact of wetland drainage on hydro-climatology of the Midwest USA” (co-authored with Venkatesh Merwade)
8. Sanjiv Kumar (graduate student, Purdue University) – Winner of 2008 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award (Hydrology Section) for his poster “Hydro-climatological impact of century long drainage in Midwestern United States” (co-authors include Venkatesh Merwade and Dan Bain).
9. Sanjiv Kumar (graduate student, Purdue University) – Winner of first prize at TeraGrid’08 graduate student research competition for his poster “Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Data and Modeling” (co-authors include Venkatesh Merwade, Carol Song and Lan Zhao).
10. Monica River-Casado (graduate student, Cranfield University, UK) – Winner of Young Scientist' Outstanding Poster Paper award for her poster “Scaling of river depth data from mesoscale to macroscale using geostatistical techniques” (co-authors include Sue White, P. Bellamy, D. Booker, M. Dunbar, Venkatesh Merwade and Ian Maddock).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- American Society of Civil Engineers.
- American Geophysical Union.
- American Water Resources Association.

PUBLICATIONS

WORKSHOPS

1. Data-Driven Cyberlearning for Geoscience and Hydrology Education, CUAHSI 2010 Biennial Science Meeting Workshop, Boulder, CO, July 2010.
2. GIS and Water Resources Modeling Workshop, Purdue University, May 24-26, 2010.
3. GIS and Water Resources Modeling Workshop, Purdue University, August 3-5, 2009.
4. GIS and Water Resources Modeling Workshop - week long training workshop for working professionals, Purdue University, January 2008.
5. Participated as Senior Investigator in a week long workshop on curriculum development for a course in interdisciplinary modeling of aquatic ecosystems organized by University of Nevada, Reno, July 2005.
6. Building Digital Watershed – a half day training workshop offered at the CUAHSI HIS symposium, University of Texas at Austin, March 2005.