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Prof.Shushobhit Chaudhary

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil Engineering

Email: shushobhit[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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About Me: Shushobhit is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. He is a hydro-climatologist & environmentalist committed to enhance the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms driving natural disasters, to better model and mitigate them. He leads the Integrated WAter and ClimaTE Research Group (InWATER), which addresses water, climate, and environmental research issues. The InWATER group is looking for Ph.D. and post-doctoral candidates in water resources, agriculture, remote sensing, environment, and climate who want to contribute to cutting-edge research. More information at: https://people.iitism.ac.in/~shushobhit/

Research Interest: Water Resources, Hydrology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Environment Engineering and Climate Change

Teaching

NCEC508 Engineering Hydrology & Hydraulics : 2024-2025 Winter : Post-Graduate

CED403 Advanced Hydrology : 2024-2025 Monsoon : Under-Graduate

NCEI101 Engineering Graphics : 2024-2025 Monsoon : Under-Graduate

NCEC504 Computational Laboratory : 2024-2025 Monsoon : Post-Graduate

CED536 Water Resources System Planning & Management : 2023-2024 Monsoon : Under-Graduate

CEI101 Engineering Graphics : 2023-2024 Monsoon : Under-Graduate

CEI202 Fluid Mechanics & Machines : 2022-2023 Winter : Under-Graduate

CEI101 Engineering Graphics : 2022-2023 Winter : Under-Graduate

Academics

Ph.D. in Water Resources (Civil) Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, 2022.

Dissertation Improving the Potential of Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates for Hydrological Applications

Master of Technology in Water Resources Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, 2015.

Dissertation: Environmental Flow of River under Climate Change Considering Water Quality

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Allahabad, India, 2013.

Position

Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. (Mar 2023 – Present)

Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. (Nov 2022 – Mar 2023)

Awards and Honors

AGU Fall Meeting Virtual Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, online.
Best Science-Story (Top 100) Award by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) 2020 competition [Science Story titled: Making Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates More Reliable].
AGU Virtual Berkner Travel Fellowship to participate in the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 01-17 December 2020, online.
AGU Fall Meeting General Student Travel Grant to present poster in 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A (09-13 Dec 2019).
IIT Delhi Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA) 2019, a grant to highly meritorious top 20% research scholars of IIT Delhi.
SPIE Student Travel Grant by SPIE and the Symposium and Conference Chairs of SPIE Security & Defence 2019 to deliver an oral presentation in SPIE 2019 Remote Sensing Conference in Strasbourg, France. (09-11 Sept. 2019).
DST International Travel Support Grant by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2019 for participating in EGU General Assembly 2019, Austria (07-12 April 2019).
CSIR Travel Grant by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Human Resource Development Group, a premier national R&D organisation in India for participating in EGU General Assembly 2019, Austria (07 April 2019 to 12 April 2019).
Scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for PhD
Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for pursuing M. Tech after qualifying Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.
2nd distinction in a paper presentation on ‘Public Sector Enterprise & Policy Shift’ at NIT Allahabad.
Best bridge-design award for bridge making competition in Annual Techno-Management Festival 2012 of NIT Allahabad.
Runner-up in ‘Fading blue’ competition held at Annual Techno-Management Festival, NIT Allahabad.

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

Dalal, G., Chaudhary, S., Dutta, R., Karmakar, S., Koppa, A., & Hari, V. (2024). East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India. Environmental Research Letters, 19(12), 124089. https://stats.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad948f
Yadav S., Nelapudi L., Singh G., Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Arya V. (2023) Impact of lockdowns and possible quantification of pollution sources on the water quality of the Yamuna River, Hydrological Sciences Journal,68:11, 1539-1552. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2224004
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2021) An Improved Error Decomposition Scheme of Satellite-based Precipitation Estimates. Journal of Hydrology, 598,126434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126434
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2020) Expanding contingency table for intensity and frequency based “true” detection of rainy events in precipitation datasets. Atmospheric Research, 244,105119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105119
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2020) Decision tree-based reduction of bias in monthly IMERG satellite precipitation dataset over India. H2Open Journal. 3(1), 236-255. https://doi.org/10.2166/h2oj.2020.124
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A. and Rehana S., (2020) Closure to “Water Quality-Based Environmental Flow under Plausible Temperature and Pollution Scenarios” by Shushobhit Chaudhary; C.T. Dhanya; Arun Kumar; and Rehana Shaik. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 25(6), 0702000. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001914
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A. and Rehana S., (2019) Water quality based environmental flows under plausible temperature and pollution scenarios. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 24(5), 05019007. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001780
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2019) Investigating the performance of bias correction algorithms on satellite-based precipitation estimates. Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXI. Vol. 11149. International Society for Optics and Photonics. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533214
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., and Kumar A. (2018). Sequential calibration of a water quality model using reach-specific parameter estimates. Hydrology Research, 49(4), 1042-1055. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2017.246
Mannan A., Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., and Swamy A.K. (2018). Regionalization of rainfall characteristics in India incorporating climatic variables and using self-organizing maps. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 24(2), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2017.1400409
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., and Vinnarasi R. (2017). Dry and Wet Spell Variability during Monsoon in Gauge-Based Gridded Daily Precipitation Datasets over India. Journal of Hydrology, 546, 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.023
Walling B., Chaudhary S., Dhanya C. T., and Kumar A. (2017). Estimation of environmental flow incorporating water quality and hypothetical climate change scenarios. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(5), 225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5942-2

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

Sudarshan L. N. Chaudhary S., (2025) Assessment of Ecological Drought over India, International Conference on Smart Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure (SRISTI), Dhanbad, 24-25 January.
Sudarshan L. N. Chaudhary S., (2024) Analyzing the Effects of Meteorological Drought on Vegetation Cover across India, National Conference on Emerging Trend in Earth Sciences (ETES), Dhanbad, 27-29 September.
Dalal G., Chaudhary S., Vittal H. (2024) Development of Heatwave Intensity Duration Frequency (HIDF) curves for four metropolitan cities in India, National Environmental Conference (NEC- 2024), IIT Bombay, 15-17 Feb, 2024
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2022) Tacking Bias in Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Estimates using Neural Network-Based Machine Learning Approach. AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL and Online. 13-12-16 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2021) Bias-Correction of Satellite Precipitation in Frequency Domain. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco and Online. 13-17 Dec
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2020) Do the Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates “truly-hit” the Gauge-based Observations? AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco and Online. 1-17 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2019) How well do bias-correction algorithms impact on error components of satellite-based precipitation estimates? AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 9-13 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2019) How Does the Error in Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates Vary with Precipitation, Topography, LULC & Climate? EGU General Assembly. Vol. 21, EGU2019-1490.
Rajendran, V., Dhanya, C. T., & Chaudhary, S. (2019). Covariate-based Time-Varying Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curve for Changing Climate. EGU General Assembly. Vol. 21, EGU2019.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2018) Dependence of Error Components in Satellite Precipitation Products on Topography, LULC & Climatic Features., AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC, 10-14 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Ghodichore N., (2018), Error characterization of satellite-based precipitation products over India. EGU General Assembly, Vol. 20, EGU2018-15413.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A., (2016), Environmental Flow Considering Water Quality and Changing Climate: 19th International River Symposium, New Delhi, India, 12-14 Sep.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A., (2015), Instream Flow Allocation based on Water Quality of Rivers. 20th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering (HYDRO-2015), Roorkee, India, 17-20 Dec.
Mannan A., Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., (2015), Regionalization of Rainfall in India using Self-Organizing Map. Proceedings of the India International Science Festival - Young Scientists’ Meet, Department of Science and Technology, Gov. of India, New Delhi, India, 04-08 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A., (2014), Revisiting Approach of Environmental Flow Determination under Climate Change. 5th National Research Conference on Climate Change, New Delhi, India, 19-20 Dec.
Chaudhary S., Dhanya C.T., Kumar A., (2014), Standalone Calibration of QUAL2K model: Impact of Climate Change on Water Quality. National Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, New Delhi, India, 19-20 Nov.

Patents

Copyright: SW-16998/2023: Authors: Dhanya C.T. & Shushobhit Chaudhary; Title: A Split-Hit Error Decomposition Scheme (SHEDS) Based Contingency Table; Copyright Office, Gov, of India.

Projects & Activities

Membership of Scientific Societies

Member of The Institution of Engineers, India
Life Member of Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee India

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Departmental Under-Graduate Committee (DUGC) member, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2024-26
Member, Standing Appellate Committee (SAC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Team Member, NBA, Civil Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Departmental Faculty Scrutiny Committee, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2023-24.
Departmental Grievance Redressal Committee, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2023-25.
Departmental Purchase Committee, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2023-24.
Member of Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (H3S) in American Geophysical Union (AGU-H3S) during 2021-2022.
Volunteer in 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting Student Volunteer Program, Development Department Fundraising Program at San Francisco, CA, U.S.A (9-13 Dec 2019).
Volunteer and Interactor in Ishaan Vikas Scheme for introducing school kids to research, Ministry of Human Resource and Development Programme at IIT Delhi, 2015.
Teaching Assistance at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
1. Undergraduate Course: Tutorial & laboratory instructor of Engineering Hydrology (2015-2021).
2. Postgraduate Course: Laboratory instructor of MATLAB and Simulation Laboratory (2016-2020).
Event coordinator of the National level technical event (Environs) at Annual Techno-Management Festival (Avishkar 2013) of NIT Allahabad.

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Research Scholars:

L N Sudarshan (2023 July – Present)

Masters:

Vikash Prasad (2023-Present)
Shubham Kumar (2023-Present)
Naveen Bhagat (2022-2024)

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