Students Supervised
Department of Civil Engineering • IIT (BHU) Varanasi
7
PhD Ongoing
12+
M.Tech.
30+
B.Tech. Projects
Ph.D. Students
● OngoingSaurabh Maurya
2025 – Ongoing
Air Pollution and Crop Yield
Vineet Jain
2025 – Ongoing
Pollution Dispersion in Ground Water
Maniranjan Kumar
2022 – Ongoing
Comprehensive Assessment of Groundwater in Tropical River Basins using Machine Learning and SWAT Model
Megavath Narahari
2021 – Ongoing
Effects of Climate Change on Water Quality
Krishna Kumar
2022 – Ongoing
Crop Yield Estimation and Forecasting using Machine Learning
Hari Prakash
2023 – Ongoing
Peak Discharge Estimation for Ungauged Basins
Ashwin Chitravanshi
2023 – Ongoing
Water Quality Modeling for Varuna River Basin
M.Tech. Students
● OngoingShailesh Kushwaha
2023 – Ongoing
Seasonal Forecasting of Crop Yield over Varuna River Basin
Tripti Yadav
2023 – Ongoing
Estimation of E-Flow for Varuna River Basin
Ritika Upadhyay
2024 – 2025
Impact of Pollution on Rainfall Characteristics
Co-supervisor (External with BHU)
Makardhwaj Awasthi
2024 – 2025
Atmospheric–Rainfall Interaction Analysis
Co-supervisor (External with BHU)
Buddepu Harsha Vardhan
2023 – 2025
A Comparative Evaluation of WRF and ANN for Weather Prediction: Performance and Accuracy
Saurabh Maurya
2023 – 2025
Investigation of Microphysical Characteristics of Raindrop Size Distribution using WRF Model
Raju Singh
2023 – 2025
Estimation of Surface Velocity in Open Channel Flows using Image Processing
Shadab Ansari
2020
Single and Dual Frequency Atmospheric Free Precise Point Positioning using Combined GPS and GLONASS Observations
Prity Dhanai
2021
Rainfall Triggered Slope Instability Analysis with Changing Climate
Pankaj Singh
2021
Spatiotemporal Prediction of Criteria Air Pollutants using Air Pollution Monitoring Station Data
Shubham Khare
2022
Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Meteorological Variables over India
Anandita Raj
2022
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Quality for Krishna River Basin
B.Tech. Projects
● 2025–26| Harshit Patel (24065047) | Dam Break Analysis using HEC-RAS |
| Abhyudaya Singh (24065008) | Inland River Water Quality Modeling |
| Ketan Kumar (24065055) | Water Quality Analysis using HEC-RAS |
| Gautam Kumar (24065040) | Bridge Scour Analysis using HEC-RAS |
| Aryan Gupta (24065026) | 2D Sediment Transport Modelling of Ganga River at Varanasi using HEC-RAS 6.6 |
| Narendra Prasad (22065058) | CFD Modeling of Bridge Pier Scour |
| Arushi Aggarwal (23064002) | Geomorphological Analysis |
| Abhishek Sharma (23065006) | Forecasting of River Sinuosity using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning |
| Bishal Das (23065032) | DSSAT Crop Simulation |
| Chandraveer Singh (23065035) | Forecasting of River Sinuosity using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning |
| Vaibhav Rajvardhan (23065110) | 2D Hydraulic Simulation and Inundation Mapping of the Hirakud Dam Breach |
| Mayank Singh (23065124) | Sub-daily Rainfall Analysis over Varuna River Basin |
| Nitish Kumar Maurya (20065067), Umesh Harsana (20065109) | River Meandering Analysis Project |
| Dinesh Singh, Harshit Bangari, Bhuvnesh Gaur | Flood Risk Zone Mapping using ArcGIS |
| Mayank Mani Nath Gupta (21065127) | River Extraction using Image Processing and QGIS using Python |
| Saatwiik Srivastava (21065091) | Rainfall–Runoff Modeling using ANN |
| Vishal Yadav (21065113) | River Boundary Extraction using Image Processing and QGIS |
| Aditi Gupta (21065006) | Monthly Discharge Estimation using Image Processing |
| Shridhar Kumar (21065100) | Application of ANN in Rainfall–Runoff Modeling |
| Mahesh Chandra Verma, Nishant Rai, Balram Yogi, Kuldeep Bhamu (2020) | Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources using ANN |
| Anitya Sagar, Pulkit Garg, Abhay Singh, Umesh Karna (2021) | Design of Rainwater Harvesting Structure for MNNIT Allahabad Campus |
| Shiv Virendra Chaubey, Ajit Kumar, Aditya Kumar, Shubham Kumar Singh (2022) | Impact of Climate Change on Water Footprint and Crop Yield over Mahanadi Basin |
External Thesis
BITS PilaniNimish Tiwari (2022A2PS1449H)
2026
Prediction of Water Quality Parameters of the Varuna River Basin using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
Co-supervisor with Prof. Abhradeep Majumder (BITS Pilani)