Department
Civil Engineering
Designation
Associate Professor
Qualification
PhD
Experience
15 years
Interest Areas
Groundwater hydrology, Water Resources, Environmental Health and Monitoring, Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS, Terrain Evaluation, Climate Change, Coastal and Marine Environment, Image Processing, Disaster Management.
Academic Profile :
  • Long-tem Spatiotemporal Analysis of Seawater Intrusion for Sustainable Groundwater Management in Bhavnagar District, Second International Conference on GIS and Remote Sensing, Vienna Austria, Oct 2017
  • Indicator Based Ecological Health Analysis Using Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature Along with Fish Catch Data off Mumbai Coast (2015). Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 15: 923-930
  • Monitoring and trend mapping of sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS data: a case study of Mumbai coast (2015). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 187(4), 1-13.
  • Understanding grids and effectiveness of hexagonal grid in spatial domain (2013), International Journal of Computer Applications
  • Framework for analysing  coastal vulnerability due to sea level rise and coastal floods using R, (2013), International Journal of Computer Applications
  • TIDER: FOSS for Tidal prediction using R, (2012), FOSS 4G, IIIT Hyderabad.
  • Cost Benefit Analysis of R over proprietary GIS and Remote Sensing Software: A Review, (2012).GISSA Ukubuzana.
  • Identification of best-suited chlorophyll estimation model in Mumbai coastal waters during pre-monsoon season, (2010). ASPRS/CaGIS
  • Monitoring Primary Ecological Health off Mumbai Coast using Chlorophyll Trend as Primary Parameter, Environmental Health, Boston, USA, March 2013
  • Spatio-temporal trend analysis of Sea Surface Temperature off Mumbai coast,; ISRS, Delhi, Dec 2012  
  • Coastal water quality analysis of Mumbai coast using pre-monsoon OCM images with satellite - synchronous field observations, Conference Procedia: 1st Conference on Spatial Statistics Mapping Global Change, March 2011
  • Chlorophyll estimation from SeaWiFS data in Mumbai coastal waters during pre- & post-monsoon season, Geomatrix '11, National Conference on Geospatial technologies and application., Feb 2011
  • Detection of Marine Sewage Outfall Plumes using ASTER Data: A Study of the Mumbai Coast, Geomatrix’ 11, National Conference on Geospatial technologies and application., Feb 2011.

Workshop and training programme attended:

  • Muncipalika 2017: 14th International Exhibition and Conference on Smart and Sustainable City Solutions, CIDCO Exhibition Centre, Navi Mumbai, 18 – 20 May 2017
  • Nexus Conference: National Water Conference 2017, Bombay Stock Exchange, 7 Jan 2017
  • ISTE approved STTP – Frontiers of Civil Engineering, SCOE Kharghar, 19 – 23 Dec 2016
  • ISTE approved STTP – Use of Open Source Software in Research, VIT Mumbai, 27 Jun – 1 Jul 2016
  • Geomatrix’14, IIT Bombay, 6 – 7 Jun 2014
  • High Performance Computing, IIT Bombay, 26 Oct 2012
  • Geomatrix’11, IIT Bombay, 26 – 27 Feb 2011
  • Geomatrix’09, IIT Bombay, 28 Feb – 1 Mar 2009 

Delivered Guest Lectures on:

  • Advanced Surveying Techniques
  • Technical Report and Scientific Paper Writing
  • Remote Sensing and GIS for Civil Engineers
  • R: Open Source Software for Research
  • Computer Organization and Optimization 

 Awards and Professional Recognition:

  • Professional Memberships: Life Member of ISRS, REA, ISTE
  • Certifications: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)