Awards and Achievements

Spandita Mitra

has received Global Development Fellowship for the research visit in Imperial College London, UK (March-June 2026).

Prabhat Dwivedi

received the prestigious LOTUS fellowship under the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Sakura Science Programme to conduct research work at Institute of Science Tokyo (formally Tokyo Tech).

Bhavya Swami

was awarded with DST-INSPIRE Fellowship for her PhD.

Sanjay Kumar

was awarded Early Career Scientist's travel support for attending European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2026 at Vienna, Austria during 3rd to 8th May, 2026

Jaswant Singh

got EGU early career scientist’s award 2026 to attend conference in Vienna

Shruti Singh

was awarded financial support grant by the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2026) to attend the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria during 3rd to 8th May, 2026

Geethika Moorthy

secured the 1st position in the Quiz Competition organised by the BIS Students’ Club of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, held on October 29, 2025.

Deepak P

awarded a travel grant to attend the 12 days workshop on "Advanced Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling" at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru from 07th to 18th July 2025.

Pooja Patle

awarded ASCE-EWRI Quentin Martin Best Practice Oriented Paper Award (2025) for their paper titled "Evaluation of Water Resources in a Complex River Basin using Water Accounting Plus (WA+): A case study of Mahi River Basin in India.

Ajay Gupta,

Research Scholar, has been awarded a Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship, tenable at University of Birmingham for studies in Hydrology.

Akriti Singh

awarded AGU Student Travel Grant for attending the AGU conference, 2025 in New Orleans USA.

Jaswant Singh

was awarded a travel grant to attend the Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, held from 6th to 11th July, 2025

Diksha was

awarded a travel grant to attend the Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, held from 6th to 11th July, 2025

Saurabh Kumar

was awarded a travel grant to attend the Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, held from 6th to 11th July, 2025

Bhavya Swami

was awarded a travel grant to attend the Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, held from 6th to 11th July, 2025

Spandan Naskar

was awarded a travel grant to attend the Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, held from 6th to 11th July, 2025

Jaswant Singh

got post-doctoral researcher position at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (August 2025 onwards)

Prabhat Dwivedi

was awarded a CSIR travel grant to attend the International Conference on Earth and Environmental Sciences 2025 in Durban, South Africa, held from 17th to 24th August, 2025

Prabhat Dwivedi

received one-month research visit at the Department of Hydrology, University of Zululand Durban, South Africa held from 25th August to 24th September, 2025

Akansha Keshariya

was invited to attend the 6th International Summer School on Managed Aquifer Recharge (MARISS) and subsequent GIANT-SPARC funded research stay, at HTW Dresden, Germany, from 1st to 28th September 2025

Akansha Keshariya

was awarded a student travel grant to attend the AGU 2025 Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, LA, USA from 15th to 19th December 2025

Shravani Yadav

was granted Commonwealth fellowship (2025) to work in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom from October 2025 onwards

Baljinder Singh

was granted IAH travel grant to attend 52nd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists in Melbourne, Australia, held from 15th to 19th September, 2025

Sanjay Kumar

was awarded HydroReach international travel grant by Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee for attending International Conference on Environmental and Earth Sciences (ICEES) 2025 at Durban, South Africa, held from 17th to 24th August 2025

Aniruddha Shah

has received AGU travel grant to attend AGU 2024.

Subhankar Das

has received offer for post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Public Science, University of Sao Paulo.

Ajay Gupta,

Research Scholar, has been awarded a Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship, tenable at University of Birmingham for studies in Hydrology.

Aishwarya Bhattacharya (2022-2024 batch),

has received Ph.D. offer from Baylor University, USA. She will be working on "Tracking the fate and transport of Nano fertilizers and pesticides in soil and plant systems."

Ravikumar Guntu (Ph.D.)

received Excellence in Doctoral Research Award for outstanding PhD work in Engineering stream under the category of Applied Research.

Spandita Mitra

awarded APARC (Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate, project of World Climate Research Programme) grant to participate in the above workshop.

Nagashree G E

selected for the 4-day "Ecohydrology Summer School, 2024" which has been organized by ETH Zurich and EPFL. I attended summer school which started from 18th - 21st June, 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Rakshitha. N,

selected for the DAAD-KOSPIE Program, 2024, this opportunity allows me to complete a part of my Master's thesis at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. My research stay will be from September 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025.

Nikunj Mangukiya

received Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) International Travel Support (ITS) to attend the HydroML 2024 Symposium in Richland WA, USA, from 29th to 31st May 2024.

Bejagam Vijaykumar

received Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) International Travel Support (ITS) to attend the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna, Austria, from 14th to 19th April 2024.

Spandita Mitra

awarded a travel grant to participate in the Data Assimilation in Weather and Climate Model 2024 event. Organising Institution: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore. Duration: May 6-17, 2024.

Sujata Kulkarni

received travel grant award to present her research EGU during General Assembly held in Vienna, Austria from 14-19th April 2024.

Sujata Kulkarni

got selected as an Associate Editor at Digital Water Globe by International Associations of Hydrological sciences (IAHS).

Pragya Badika

received the Future Environmental Leader Scholarship from the Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre funded by ABCD center to continue her research at the Technical University Dresden (April 2024 - Nov 2024).

Prabhat Dwivedi

Best Paper Award for their work on 'HYDROGEOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF INTERACTING SURFACE-GROUND WATER RESOURCES OF KALI RIVER BASIN' at the Hydro-2023 International Conference held from December 21-23, 2023, at NIT Warangal.

Ashish Mishra

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) International Travel Support to attend the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 in San Francisco, USA.

Mani Kanta Malla

Best Paper (First Position) on the Theme "Hydroclimatic Extremes and its impacts " in the 28th Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO-2023).

Ravi Kumar Guntu

International Conference grant from the SDG Nexus Network funded by DAAD to attend the Water Security and Climate Change Conference 2023, 21-23 November in Ecuador, South America.

Ravi Kumar Guntu

awarded the SYSTA-Sivapalan Young Scientist Travel Award to attend the international workshop STAHY 2023, 8-10 November, in Boston, USA.

P Kedarnath Reddy

selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship under the Lateral Entry Scheme in Cycle 11.

Nagashree G E

selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship under the Lateral Entry Scheme in Cycle 11.

Akash Singh Raghuvanshi

under Prof. Ankit Agarwal, has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship under the Lateral Entry Scheme in Cycle 11.

Pragya Badika

received a grant to attend the “Potsdam Summer School 2023” at the University of Potsdam, Germany, from September 03rd to September 08th, 2023.

Akash Singh Raghuvanshi

shortlisted for the Allianz Climate Risk Award 2023.

Ajay Gupta

Received the prestigious 'American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 David Miller Young Scientist Scholarship.

Mr. Pankaj Ramji Dhote,

PhD Scholar received Space4Sust mobility fund to work as visiting researcher at G-EAU, INRAE, Montpellier, France during August 07 to Nov 03, 2023.

Mr. Pankaj Ramji Dhote, PhD Scholar selected as Secretary,

International Commission of Remote Sensing (ICRS), IAHS for the term 2023-2017 after 2023 elections held during the IAHS Administrative Plenary on 12 July 2023 at IUGG 2023, Berlin, Germany.

Shubham Ketan Sharma

Received the International Travel Support (ITS), SERB, DST to attend, “The 13th International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes ICOM13, 9-14 July 2023, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan”.

Mr Pankaj Ramji Dhote (PhD Student)

has been selected as the secretary for Remote Sensing commission of International Association of Hydrological Society (IAHS).

Mr. Akash Singh Raghuvanshi (Ph.D. scholar)

has been awarded Deloitte work-studentship.

Nikunj Mangukiya

has been selected for the "Deloitte work-studentship program" for 6 months.

Mr. Bhargabnanda Dass (Ph.D. candidate)

has been conferred the 2023 IAHS SYSTA award (Sivapalan Young Scientist Travel Award) to attend the IUGG 2023 General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, held from 12th to 16th July.

Mr. Akash Singh Raghuvanshi

(PhD scholar) is Supervising SPARK Intern Ms. R. B. Nithyasri from IISER Bhopal on Topic "Detection of Atmospheric Rivers using Image Processing approach".

Ms. Pooja Patle

(PhD candidate) got the prestigious prime minister research fellowship (PMRF).

Mr. Aman Kumar

(PhD got the prestigious prime minister research fellowship (PMRF).

Mr. Prabhat Dwivedi

(PhD candidate)got the prestigious prime minister research fellowship (PMRF).

Bejagam Vijaykumar

received the Mitacs Globalink Research Award to work as a visiting research scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada, for six months.

Nikunj Mangukiya and Pooja Patle

have been selected with travel support to attend "International Soil Moisture School" at IIT Bombay, scheduled for 15-17 March 2023.

Ashish Mishra

received the Sivapalan Young Scientist Travel Award (SYSTA).

Ms. Shivani Parashar

M.Tech 1st year student, has been selected for ANSYS fellowship award.

Mr. Anshul Yadav

has received Mitacs Globalink Research Award for Canada to visit University of British Columbia for six months.

Ashish Mishra (Ph.D. Scholar)

was invited to participate in the "International Workshop on Identifying the Topic for the Next Scientific Decade of the IAHS, 2023–2032", with full financial support.

Mr. Shubham Tiwari (Ph.D. Scholar)

has received a conference grant to participate in the Water Security and Climate Change (WSCC2022) from 1-3 December 2022 at AIT, Thailand. The grant will cover all expenses including registration fee, round trip airfare, airport transfer, visa fee, and accommodation.

Mr. Gaurav Vaghela (Ph.D. Scholar)

has received an excellent abstract award with international travel support to participate in the South Asian Water Water Environment (SAEWE-13) from December 13–15, 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand.

Mr. Gaurav Vaghela (Ph.D. Scholar)

has been awarded with distinguished "Asian Young Professional on Water Research", "Excellent Abstract Award", along with "International Travel Support" at 13th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment (SEAWE-13)

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (PhD Scholar), Ms. Sujata S Kulkarni (PhD Scholar), Mr. Nikunj Mangukiya (PhD Scholar), and Mr. Subhankar Das (PhD Scholar)

Attended 8th Potsdam Summer School in Potsdam, Germany, held on 22-31 August 2022 sponsored by the Co-prepare project.

Mr. Vijaykumar Bejagam (PhD Scholar)

Selected as the recipient of the AsiaFlux Conference 2022 scholarship award.

Mr. Abinesh G (PhD Scholar)

Attended WARREDOC International Doctoral Summer School EXTREMES IN WATER SCIENCE in Palermo, Italy, held on 10-14 July 2022.

Abinesh Ganapathy

winner of the 2nd IAHR Young Professionals Hydro-Environment Challenge (Ecohydraulics Challenge winning team)

Mr. Bhargabnanda Dass (Ph.D. Scholar)

Received the International Travel Support (ITS), SERB, DST to attend, “EGU General Assembly 2022, Austria (23 May, 2022 to 27 May, 2022)”.

Mr. Nikunj K. Mangukiya (Ph.D. Scholar)

Received the Co-PREPARE Academic Grant to attend the “Potsdam Summer School 2022” at the University of Potsdam, Germany from August 22nd to August 31st, 2022.

Mr. Subhankar Das (Ph.D. Scholar)

Received the Co-PREPARE Academic Grant to attend the “Potsdam Summer School 2022” at the University of Potsdam, Germany from August 22nd to August 31st, 2022.

Ms. Sujata S. Kulkarni (Ph.D. Scholar)

Received the Co-PREPARE Academic Grant to attend the “Potsdam Summer School 2022” at the University of Potsdam, Germany from August 22nd to August 31st, 2022.

Mr. Ashish Mishra

Selected as a Visiting Postgraduate Scholar at the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, the University of Bath, UK, under the Climate Resilient Energy Secure and Healthy Built Environment (CREST) Project through the Going Global Partnerships Collaborative Grant offered by the British Council. The expected duration of the programme is three months (June 2022 to September 2022).

Mr. Vijay Kumar Bejagam

PhD IInd Year, got the prestigious prime minister research fellowship (PMRF) through the lateral entry channel.

Ms. Sujata S. Kulkarni

PhD Ist Year, got the prestigious prime minister research fellowship (PMRF) through a direct entry channel.

Mr. Bhargabnanda Dass

Received the first best paper award in the Roorkee water conclave (RWC) 2022, organized by IIT Roorkee and NIH Roorkee.

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu

Received the best paper award in the Roorkee Water Conclave (RWC) 2022, organized by IIT Roorkee and NIH Roorkee.

Mr. Shubham Tiwari

Received the CSIR foreign Travel Grant to enable him to attend and present at the International Conference on Water Resources Management and sustainability solutions for Arid regions, Expo 2020, Dubai, UAE, from 22 March 2022 to 24 March 2022.

Ms. Dani Rinyo

M.Tech student has been awarded the ANSYS fellowship award. Congratulations!!

Stuti Shah (Ph.D. Scholar), has received the prestigious Berkner Travel Fellowship to attend AGU 2021. It is a prestigious fellowship by AGU that fully funds all the expenses involved in attending the AGU conference. This year, it has been awarded to a total of 14 people around the world.

Ms. Anuradha Garg has received a scholarship to participate in IGCS winter school 2022 co-organized by the University of Stuttgart and IIT Madras on 'Sustainable Waste Management for a circular economy from 21 February - 4 March 2022.

Abinesh Ganapathy was provisionally selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship (Ph.D.) to continue his research at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Prof David Hannah (Feb 2022 - Jan 2023).

Anshul Yadav was provisionally selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship (Ph.D.) to continue his research at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Prof Prof. Greg Smith (Feb 2022 - Jan 2023).

Ms. Priyanka Singh was provisionally selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship (Ph.D.) to continue his research at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Prof. Krause (Feb 2022 - Jan 2023).

Aniruddha Saha(Team Lead), Aniket Chandra, Babita Malakar, and Shrishti Sharma have secured a spot in the winners' category under the guidance of Prof D S Arya, in MAPATHON organized jointly by ISRO, IIT-B, AICTE. The team had mapped the Urban Sprawl and Groundwater change of Ludhiana District over two time periods- to explain the groundwater change over time due to Urbanisation.

Mr. Shubham Tiwari (Ph.D. Scholar) has been received a conference grant to present his research at Interpore 2021 (May 31–June 4, 2021).

Ms. Anuradha Garg (Ph.D. Scholar) has received a conference grant for attending and presenting her work at Interpore 2021 (31 May – 4 June 2021).

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (Ph.D. candidate) has been awarded the prestigious DAAD fellowship. He will be visiting GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, from October 2021 to September 2022 for his Ph.D. work with Professor Bruno Merz as the host.

Ashish Manoj J (Master 1st year) received the Swiss Research Scholarship 2021. Ashish will be visiting Switzerland to work on the topic of compound extremes.

Mr. Shubham Tiwari (Ph.D. Scholar) has received a scholarship to attend Indo-German Summer School on "Sustainable Water Management at the Saltwater- freshwater Interface" 2021 (12 July to 23 July 2021).

Mr. Pankaj Dhote (Ph.D. Scholar) received a Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, in New Orleans, LA, USA

Ms. Mayuri Gadhawe (Master student) received a Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, in New Orleans, LA, USA

Mr. Shivam Rawat (Master student) received a Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, in New Orleans, LA, USA

Mr. Shubham Tiwari (Ph.D. Scholar) received a Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, in New Orleans, LA, USA

Anuradha Garg (Ph.D. Scholar) has received the prestigious Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, in New Orleans, LA, USA.

Team HydroR (Aniruddha Saha, Shrishti Sharma, Ankush Choudhary, Prachi Singhal, Babita Malakar, Ashish Manoj J) consisting entirely of students from the Department of Hydrology was selected as one of the eight finalists for the Wave2WebHackathon conducted by WRI India in association with Microsoft and BlackRock. As part of the Hackathon, the team created a neural network model to predict the reservoir water availability one month ahead for the city of Bangalore. The event had over 2130 registrations from across the globe.

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (PMRF Fellow) delivered an expert lecture on “Data-Driven Modelling: Soft computing techniques in Water Resources Engineering Using MATLAB®” on July 01, 2021, during the Two-week Faculty Development Program on “Smart Cities Enabling Technologies: A Step towards New India (Phase-II)” (Online), June 21-July 3, 2021, organized by BVM Engineering College, Gujarat.

Mr. Shubham Tiwari, Research Scholar, received the 'ISH G.M.Nawathe Puraskar (Best Paper in Hydro- 2019 International) for the year 2020 for his paper “Desalinization from Agricultural field through Ditch Drainage system” presented in Hydro- 2019 International at Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre, hosted by Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (Ph.D. Candidate) was awarded the prestigious “INSPIRE Fellowship” from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India to pursue doctoral studies.

Mr. Shashi Ranjan guided by Prof. Brijesh K Yadav and Prof. Himanshu Joshi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “In situ arsenic sequestration using permeable reactive barriers” on Feb 15, 2021.

Ms. Aliva Nanda (Ph.D. student) under the supervision of Prof. Sumit Sen successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Understanding Hydrological Processes of Lesser Himalayan Hillslopes” on 2nd February 2021.

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (Ph.D. candidate) has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF).

Ashish Mishra (Team Lead), Malla Mani Kanta, Sushmita Gouraha, and Aman Kumar under the guidance of Prof D S Arya (Team ID: Mapathon3351), secured a spot in the winners' category in a National Level Map Making competition Mapathon 2020 jointly organized by IIT Bombay, ISRO and AICTE that received over 5000 entries throughout the country.

Mr. Ravi Kumar Guntu (Ph.D. candidate) received the conference grant for participation in the 6th IAHR Europe Congress 2020 in Warsaw, Poland under the program “PROM - International Scholarship Exchange of Doctoral Students and Academic Staff”. The conference will be organized by International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and financed by: The Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Ms. Karisma Yuman (Master Student) has been awarded a DAAD-KOSPIE fellowship to work on her master thesis at TU Munich.

Mr. Mulugeta Musie Abdi (Ph.D. student) under the supervision of Prof. Sumit Sen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Anthropogenic Changes on an Ethiopian Rift Valley Lake” on 30th of September 2020.

Ms. Karisma Yumnam (Master Student) has been awarded a DAAD-KOSPIE fellowship to work on her master thesis at TU Munich. (September 2019 – May 2020).

Arjun Kaushik (Master Student) has been awarded a DAAD fellowship to work on his master thesis at TU Munich. (September 2019 – May 2020)

Aliva Nanda (1697001) received MHRD Doctoral Fellowship, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Berkner Fellowship 2017, and Japan Science Union (JpGU) student travel grant 2018.

Anuradha Garg (17917003) has been awarded the Junior Research Fellowship (2018) conferred by UGC, New Delhi.

Vivek Gupta (15917003) received his Ph.D. from the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee in April 2020. During his Ph.D., he received SERB International Travel Grant and IITR Foreign Travel Scholarship to attend EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria organized in April-2017. Vivek also received AGU Student Travel Grant and CSIR Foreign Travel Grant to attend AGU Fall Meeting in December 2017 organized in New Orleans, USA.