Honors & Awards

FELLOWSHIPS & FUNDING

  • Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), India granted ‘Doctoral fellowship’ starting from 2014- 2019.
  • Student travel grant awarded by American Geophysical Union (AGU) organizers to attend Fall Meeting, 2018.
  • International Travel Support, DST awarded to attend and present in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 2018 on the topic ‘Projecting coastal vulnerability under climate change scenario.’
  • Secured International Student Travel Grant to present research on ‘Prediction of changes in the shoreline interrupted by a river mouth based on future climate and ANN’ at Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), 2018.
  • Lloyd V. Berkner Fellowship granted for early-career scientists/students to present the research on ‘Effect of climate change on morphology around a port’ at AGU Fall Meeting, 2017.
  • Secured Early Career Scientist’s Travel Support, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 2017 to present research on ‘Effect of climate change on the shoreline at Udupi, India.’

MEDIA REACH

  1. The research article based on ‘Assessment of coastal vulnerability considering future climate – a case study along the central west coast of India’ has been covered by the Fortnightly Journal of Research called Current Science (Science Last Fortnight) in Volume 118, Issue 5 as ‘Coastal Vulnerability-Historical data predicts’.
  2. The research work has been featured in the popular newspaper ‘The Indian Express‘ entitled ‘How climate change can erode Indian coastline more intensely than ever’ on 4th Jul 2018. Weblink
  3. Research work quoted in e-paper entitled ‘Average sea levels may rise by up to 30 ft on global warming, says study’ on 17th Jul 2018. Weblink

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  1. Delivered invited lecture for Faculty Development Program organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on ‘Application of GPS and Remote sensing in Civil Engineering’ dated 16th Jan 2020.
  2. Co-organized one-day workshop on ‘Advanced Computing in Ocean Engineering and Applications’ at Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India and delivered a technical talk on the topic ‘Shoreline change and coastal vulnerability considering the projected climate.’
  3. Expert Judge for Virtual Poster Showcase (VPS) organized by American Geophysical Union (AGU) biannually from 2017-2019.
  4. Peer-reviewed international journals from 2016 onwards [Web of Science]