Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) 2000

(Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India)

 

Master of Engineering (M.E) 1994

(Anna University, Chennai, India)

 

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), 1990

(University of Madras, Chennai, India)

 

 

 

SPECIALIZATION

1.                Civil Engineering

2.                Hydrology

3.                Water Resources Engineering

4.                Water Resources Systems Engineering

5.                Time Series Modeling

Research Areas of Interest

Water Resources Systems Analysis

Reservoir Operation, Policy Issues, Multi-objective Analysis

Conventional as well as Soft Computing optimization Techniques

Basin wise Water Resources Estimation

Stochastic Hydrological Modeling

Reservoir Sedimentation

Rain Water Harvesting

Airport and Road Side Storm Water Drainage System

Water Supply and Sewerage Systems

Irrigation Water Management

Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

Artificial Neural Networks

Single site and Multi site reservoir inflow prediction

Rainfall-runoff modeling

Meteorological parameter prediction

Non-linear dynamic analysis using Chaos theory

Chaotic Analysis of rainfall, runoff, meteorological parameters

Catchment classification using chaotic analysis

Singular Spectrum Analysis

Single variate and multi variate time series analysis

Physical Model Studies

Basic Design of Orifice Spillways

Aerators on Orifice Spillways

Numerical Model Studies

Basic Design of Orifice Spillways

Aerators on Orifice Spillways

River Estuary 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models