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Venkatraman Srinivasan

Assistant professor

Department of Civil Engineering
Address:
151 New Academic Complex 2,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600036, India

Primary email: Email-me
Alternative email: Email-me

Phone: +91 44-2257-4321

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Research interests

eco-hydrology, climate change, food & water security, groundwater recharge, contaminant transport modeling and remediation

Education

PhD. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, 2007-2013. Dissertation title: “Optimality and resilience in patterns of carbon allocation and growth in vegetation under acclimation response to climate change”. Advisor: Dr. Praveen Kumar

M.S. Civil Engineering, Auburn University, USA, 2004-2007. Thesis title: “Analytical solutions for sequentially coupled multi-species reactive transport problems”. Advisor: Dr. Prabhakar Clement (now at Alabama )

B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2000-2004. Project guide: Dr. Ligy Philip

Professional experience

Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2018-Present)

Research scientist, Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2017-2018)

Post doctoral research associate, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2013-2017)

Post-doctoral researchers

Ph.D. students

Vinod Pathak

Ph.D. student (2018 - present)

Research interests

plant hydraulics, transpiration and plant water uptake, whole plant water movement

Antriksh Srivastava

Ph.D. student (2019 - present)

Research interests

eco-hydrological modeling, leaf and canopy mass and energy exchange

Tathagata Sinha

Ph.D. student (2020 - present)

Research interests

canopy light attenuation, experimental and modeling approach

Rajagopal Sadasivam

Ph.D. student (2021 - present)

joint guidance with Prof. Indumathi Nambi

Research interests

saltwater intrusion in cosatal aquifers, laboratory simulation of porous media flow

Spandan Gowda

Ph.D. student (2021 - present)

joint guidance with Prof. Balaji Narasimhan

Research interests

experimental eco-hydrology, sap flow, transpiration

Naveen S L

2022 - present

joint guidance with Prof. Balaji Narasimhan

Research interests

groundwater recharge, saltwater intrusion

M.S. students

Anurupa Das

M.S. student (2018 - present)

Research interests

canopy modeling, canopy light attenuation, crop modeling, 3D canopy architecture

M.Tech. students

Past members

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