Subimal Ghosh     

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,

Powai,

Mumbai – 400 076, India.

E-mail:  subimal @ civil.iitb.ac.in; subimal.ghosh @ gmail.com

Phone: +91 22 2576 7319 (Off.); +91 22 2576 8319 (Res.)

 

Education

Research Interest

Publications

Sponsored Research Project

Students

Invited Lectures

Awards and Recognitions

 

 

 

EDUCATION

August, 2004 - October, 2007 - Ph D (Submission: July, 2007), (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Thesis Title: Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change: Uncertainty Modeling.

under the supervision of Prof. P. P. Mujumdar.                                                     

August, 2002 - July, 2004 - Master of Engineering (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Project Title: Risk Minimization Models for River Water Quality Control.

Under the supervision of Prof. P. P. Mujumdar.

August, 1998 - July, 2002 - Bachelor of Engineering (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

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RESEARCH INTEREST

Uncertainty Modeling

Applications of

  • Probability and Statistics
  • Risk Based Approach
  • Fuzzy Systems Theory
  • Imrecise Probability
  • Possibility Theory

Water Resources Systems

  • Water Quality Management
  • Reservoir Operation

Hydroclimatology

  • Statistical Downscaling
  • GCM and Scenario Uncertainty

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PUBLICATIONS

    BOOK CHAPTERS

1.      Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh, (2008) “Fuzzy Logic Based Approaches in Water Resources Systems Modeling”,  Practical Hydroinformatics, Ed. by R. Abrahart, L. See, D. Solomatine, Water Science and Technology Library, (Pub : Springer) ISBN : 978-3-540-79980-4, pp. 165-176.

JOURNALS

2.      Subimal Ghosh and Misra C (2010), “Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change: Modeling Techniques and Challenges”, Open Hydrology Journal (In Press)

3.      Subimal Ghosh (2010), “Modelling bivariate rainfall distribution and generating bivariate correlated rainfall data in neighbouring meteorological subdivisions using copula, Hydrological Processes, Springer [In Press]

4.      Kannan, S. and Subimal Ghosh (2010), “Prediction of daily rainfall state in a river basin using statistical downscaling from GCM output”, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Springer. (Accepted).

5.      Subimal Ghosh, Raje D. and P. P. Mujumdar (2010), "Mahanadi Streamflow: Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptive Strategies", Current Science (in print).

6.      Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2010): Fuzzy Waste Load Allocation Model: A Multiobjective Approach, Journal of Hydroinformatics, 12.1, 96-109.

7.      Subimal Ghosh, Luniya, V. and Gupta, A. (2009), “Trend Analysis of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall at Different Spatial Scales”, Atmospheric Sciences Letter, Royal Meteorological Society, 10(4), pp. 285-290 (PDF)

8.      Musti, S., Subimal Ghosh and Mujumdar, P. P. (2009), Imprecise Probability for Modeling Partial Ignorance: Application to Waste Load Allocation in a River System, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 15 (SP1), pp. 258-271, (PDF)

9.      Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2009), Climate Change Impact Assessment- Uncertainty Modeling with Imprecise Probability, Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmosphere (AGU), 114, D18113, doi:10.1029/2008JD011648, (PDF)

10.  Mujumdar P. P. and Subimal Ghosh (2008), Climate Change Impact on Hydrology and Water Resources, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 14(3), 1-17.

11.  Mujumdar, P. P., and S. Ghosh (2008), Modeling GCM and scenario uncertainty using a possibilistic approach: Application to the Mahanadi River, India, Water Resources Research, 44, W06407, doi:10.1029/2007WR006137. (PDF)

12.  Subimal Ghosh, H. R. Suresh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Fuzzy Waste Load Allocation Model: Application to a Case-Study, Journal of Intelligent Systems, 17, (1-3), pp. 283-296.

13.  Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Statistical Downscaling of GCM Simulations to Streamflow using Relevance Vector Machine. Advances in Water Resources. (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands), 31(1), pp. 132-146. (PDF)

14.  Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2007): Nonparametric Methods for Modeling GCM and Scenario Uncertainty in Drought Assessment. Water Resources Research, 43, W07405, doi:10.1029/2006WR005351. (PDF)

15.  P. P. Mujumdar and Subimal Ghosh (2007): Assessment of Impact of Global Climate Change on Precipitation at Regional Scales, Hydrology Review, INCOH Roorkee, 22, pp 21-36.

16.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2006): Risk Minimization in Water Quality Control Problems of a River System. Advances in Water Resources. (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands), 29, pp. 458-470. (PDF)

17.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): Future Rainfall Scenario over Orissa with GCM Projections by Statistical Downscaling, Current Science, India, 90(3), pp. 396-404. (PDF)

18.  Subbarao, V.V.R., Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh (2004): Risk Evaluation in Water Quality Management of a River System. Journal of Water Resour. Plng and Mgmt. Vol. 130, No. 5, September 1, 2004. (Pub: American Society of Civil Engineers). (PDF)

19.  Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh, (2004) “Systems Techniques for  Planning Inter-Basin Water Transfers”, Special Issue on Hydrological aspects of large scale water transfer, Hydrology Review, INCOH Roorkee, 19(1-2), pp. 21-40.

  CONFERENCE

20.  Kannan S. and Subimal Ghosh (2010), “Generation of Rainfall State in a River Basin incorporating Climate Change”, 17th IAHR-APD Congress, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 21-24 February, 2010

21.  Subimal Ghosh, Luniya, V. and Gupta, A. (2010), “Trend Analysis in Extreme Rainfall Events over Large Region in India: Is It Always Correct?”, 3rd developing nations conference: India 2010 - An International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment, January, 5-7, Chennai, India

22.  Subimal Ghosh (2009), “SVM for Statistical Downscaling with Proper Selection of Parameters”, Workshop on Advanced Soft Computing Techniques (WAST2009), 15-16 October, 2009, Kanpur, India.

23.  P. P. Mujumdar, Ghosh, S. and Raje, D. (2009), Hydro-meteorological predictions from GCM simulations: downscaling techniques and uncertainty modeling, New Approaches to Hydrological Prediction in Data-sparse Regions (Proc. of Symposium HS.2 at the Joint IAHS & IAH Convention, Hyderabad, India, September 2009). IAHS Publ. 333, 2009, 165-175

24.  A K Agrawal, K Sree Ram Reddy, A S Dsouza, S S More, S Shrikrishna Kolwankar, A Sirohi and Subimal Ghosh (2008), “Changes in Monsoon Rainfall Pattern in Indian Meteorological Subdivisions”, HYDRO 2008, Jaipur.

25.  Subimal Ghosh (2008): Modeling Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change, National Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management”, Govt. Engg. College, Aurangabad (Invited Key Note Paper), June 13-14, 2008

26.  Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Correction for Bias in Downscaling GCM Simulations for Hydrologic Impact Assessment, Water Down Under 2008, Adelaide, Australia, April 14-17, 2008.

27.  Subimal Ghosh (2007): Statistical Downscaling with SVM-PGSL Coupled Approach for Prediction of Monsoon Rainfall, HYDRO-2007, Surat, India.

28.  Subimal Ghosh, and P. P. Mujumdar (2007): Modeling GCM and Scenario Uncertainty: An Imprecise Probability Approach, 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 17-19th December, 2007, Pune, India.

29.  Subimal Ghosh, Sashank M, and P. P. Mujumdar (2006): Waste Load Allocation: An Imprecise Fuzzy Risk Approach. International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), January 11-14, 2007, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India. (Invited Key Note Paper)

30.  Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2006): Minimization of Constarint Vioaltion in Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming, 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, (HIC 2006), 4th-8th Septemeber, 2006, Nice, France (PDF).

31.  Subimal Ghosh, H. R. Suresh and P. P. Mujumdar (2005): Fuzzy Water Quality Management Model: Application to a Case Study, Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005 (IICAI 05), Pune, India, 20-22 Dec, 2005. pp. 2006-2015.

32.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): A fuzzy waste load allocation model integrating skewness of distributions. National Conference on Advances in Water Engineering for Sustainable Development (NCAWESD-2005), Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.T. Madras, May 16 & 17, 2005, (PDF).

33.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): Risk Minimization Model for River Water Quality Management. International Conference on Hydrological Perspectives of Sustainable Development 2005 (HYPESD '05). (DOC)

 

 

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SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTs

Assessing Impact of Climate Change on Indian Subdivisional Rainfall, Funding Agency: IRCC, IIT Bombay.

Multi-site Statistical Downscaling using Copula for Climate Change Impact Assessment on Hydrology, Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology.

Assessing Impacts of Global and Local Changes on River Basin Scale Hydrology, Funding Agency: Space Technology Cell, IITB-Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

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STUDENTS

Ph. D.:

S Kashid ( Jointly guided with Prof. Rajib Maity and Prof. M C Deo)

S. Kannan.

Avijit Paul (At IITB Monash Research Academy)

Kamal Murari (At IITB Monash Research Academy)

M. Tech:

Sudhir Katkar

Munir Ahmad Nayak

 

 

 

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 Invited Lectures

Waste Load Allocation: An Imprecise Fuzzy Risk Approach” in International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), January 11-14, 2007, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India. (Invited Key Note Paper). Authored by Subimal Ghosh, Sashank M, and P. P. Mujumdar (2006).

Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change: Uncertainty Modeling” in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, September, 2007.

“Computing in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering” in Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 7th March, 2008.

“Modeling Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change” in National Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management” at Aurangabad, India

Climate Change and Uncertainty Modeling”, in School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University, September, 26, 2008.

Climate Change, Hydrology and Uncertainty Modeling” in National Workshop on Climate Change and Water Resources Management, NIT Rourkela (Invited Key-Note Lecture).

 

 

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

BOYSCAST Fellowship (2009-10) from Department of Science and Technology, to work in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, US

Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award for 2009-2010 in “Engineering Sciences”

Prof. N S Govinda Rao Medal Best Ph. D. Thesis Award 2007 from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Fast Track Project Grant for Young Scientists from Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (2007)

"Risk Minimization in Water Quality Control Problems of a River System", by Ghosh and Mujumdar (2006) has been selected as one of the 25 hottest articles of Advances in Water Resources in 3 consecutive periods. (Oct-Dec 2005 [Rank-1], Jan-Mar 2006 [Rank-1], Apr-Jun 2006 [Rank-7]). [http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?cat_id=6&subject_area_id=9&journal_id=03091708]

National Doctoral Fellowship Award from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004.

All India Rank -39 in GATE 2002

Reviewer of Journals (Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Journal of Earth Systems Sciences, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Journal of water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering [Indian Society for Hydraulics], Geography and Regional Planning Journal, Current Science.

Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Indian Science Congress Association and Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH)

 

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