Other Activities

Awards, expert lectures, professional memberships & outreach

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Awards
9+
Expert Talks
3
Memberships

Awards & Achievements

2016
🏆 Certificate of Appreciation — from Director, IIT Kanpur for receiving excellent student feedback during the summer course ESO208A (Introduction to Numerical Methods and Analysis).
2015
🏆 Best Poster Award — Monsoon Simulation and Prediction category, Annual Monsoon Workshop Pune (IMSP), India Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.
2014–16
🏆 Winner, Institute Pool Championship — IIT Kanpur (three consecutive years).
2012
🏆 Academic Excellence Achievement Award — Highest CPI during M.Tech in Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
2011
🏆 First Prize, Snooker Inter-Hall Tournament — IIT Kanpur.
2011
🏆 DAAD Masters Sandwich Program — Awarded DAAD Scholarship for research visit to KIT-IMK-IFU, Garmisch, Germany.
2010
🏆 Second Prize, Billiards Inter-Hall Tournament — IIT Kanpur.

Expert Lectures & Talks

2026
Estimation of Scour Depth for Large Bridges over Alluvial Rivers
INFRA-IMPACT: Integrated Training on Bridge and Pavement Design, Inspection, Monitoring, Performance Assessment & Capacity Building — IIT Patna, for engineers of the Rural Works Department, Government of Bihar (10 January 2026)
2025
Forecasting Hydrological Events Using SWAT-GFS Models and Their Role in Decision Support Systems for Water Resource Management
Shelter Academy 2025 (International Program), via Microsoft Teams — Arcadis–UN-Habitat–UNHCR Consortium
2022
Site Visit to Sewage Treatment Plant (STP)
Novel Approaches in Wastewater Treatment (NAWT-2022)
2022
World Water Day Webinar on Water Conservation and Rain Water Harvesting
Lakshya NGO, Lucknow (2022)
2022
Session Chair — 54th Annual Convention and Exhibition
IWWA Lucknow and Prayagraj Centres, Lucknow
2021
National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP): Guiding Framework for HEIs
Sadanlal Savaldas Khanna Girls Degree College
2019
Basics of Linux and MATLAB; InSAR: Theory, Processing and Application
Short Term Programme, MNNIT Allahabad (2019)
2019
Numerical Modeling using Finite Difference Methods, Numerical and Optimization Techniques
NOT-2019, MNNIT Allahabad
2018–19
Waste Management Programme
Green Skill Development Program, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change — AFRI, Jodhpur

Short-Term Programmes Organised

Professional Memberships

Indian Desalination Association
Life Member — LM-534
Indian Concrete Institute
Life Member — LM-13152
Indian Water Works Association
Life Member — LM-10249

Skills

Software, programming languages, and technical competencies:

Hydrological & Hydraulic Modelling

HEC-RAS SWAT WRF / WRF-Chem HEC-HMS EPANET EPA SWMM

GIS & Remote Sensing

Google Earth Engine QGIS ArcGIS ERDAS

Programming & Data

Python R MATLAB Java PHP LaTeX HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Languages

English (Proficient) Hindi (Native)

Media & Digital Outreach

News coverage and press releases related to research and projects:

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India, Denmark launch Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers
Economic Times Infrastructure
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India, Denmark partner to rejuvenate river Varuna
domain-b.com
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Strategic Alliance between NMCG, IIT (BHU) and Denmark unveils innovative Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers (SLCR) Project in Varanasi
Press Information Bureau (PIB), Government of India