Dr. Shaik Rehana
Associate Professor, Lab for Spatial Informatics(LSI)
Email: rehana.s(at)iiit(dot)ac(dot)in
Tel: (+91-40)-6653 1000, Ext:1410
Fax: (+91-40)-6653 1413
Brief: Expert in water resources engineering with a focus on hydrological impact of climate change, drought assessment and modelling, urban flood modelling, River water quality management, Reservoir Operation and application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Water Resources Engineering.
Awards / Recognitions:
- Dr. Shaik Rehana Received Research Grant from the India-Canada Joint Call, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnership to Accelerate Community Transformation (IC-IMPACTS) Canada (https://ic-impacts.com/news-events/resilient-communities-cfp/), April 2023.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received Travel Grant to attend Science and Innovation for Catchment Management, IUKWC’s 5th Science Workshop held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, between 8th and 10th May, 2019 from India-UK Water Centre, India.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received reduced registration fee for attending the 16th Annual Meeting, AOGS 2019, 28 Jul – 2 Aug, 2019, Singapore from Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS).
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received Water Advance Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship (2017) from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received Travel Grant to attend the 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics, and 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 28–29 July 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received Young Scientist Award (2016) from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Division Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana received Prof. N.S, Govinda Rao Gold Medal for Best Ph. D Thesis from Civil Engineering Department (2015), IISc, Bangalore, India.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana student Mummidivarapu Satish Kumar (PhD Scholar) received the best paper award (second position) in the 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2023) organised by the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, under the aegis of The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) during December 21-23, 2023 under the theme of Environmental Hydraulics.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana student Mummidivarapu Satish Kumar (PhD Student) received a SERB travel grant to attend “Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, AOGS2023, Singapore (30 July, 2023 to 04 August, 2023)” from the organisation Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
- Dr. Shaik Rehana students M. Rajesh(PhD Student, LSI), M. Satish Kumar (PhD Student, LSI ) and T. Thomas David (Research Scholar, SPCRC ) have won the FIRST place in the “Ecochampions Hackathon 2023: Reduction in Water Consumption” conducted by the TSPCB (Telangana State Pollution Control Board), Hyderabad.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana student Avantika Latwal, Ph.D student, received Second Prize in Hydro 2021, International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, December 23-25, 2021, under the theme of Geospatial Technologies in Water Resources Engineering https://blogs.iiit.ac.in/monthly_news/second-prize-at-hydro-2021/.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana student Rajesh Maddu, Ph.D student presented two papers at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Virtual 18th Annual Meeting held from 1 – 6 August.https://blogs.iiit.ac.in/monthly_news/aogs-2021/
- Dr. Shaik Rehana and N. T. Monish, DD student, received Best Paper Award in Hydro 2019, International Conference, Hydraulics, Water Resources & Coastal Engineering, 18-20, December, 2019.
- Dr. Shaik Rehana student N. T. Monish, DD student received Travel Grant from American Geophysical Union (AGU), to attend American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #A21L-2879, 10-14 December 2018, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Qualification:
- Ph.D. in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering,IISC Bangalore, 2013.
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change - Master of Science (Eng.) in Water Resources Engineering, 2008.
Uncertainty Modeling for River Water Quality Control - Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, 2004.
Memberships / Professional Societies:
- Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Member of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India)
- Member of Indian Society for Hydraulics
- Acted as Reviewer for 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE), University of College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, April 28-30, 2023.
- Member in the Selection Committee for the selection of JRF position in SERB-CRG Sanctioned Project, University of College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
- Member of Reviewer Board for “TRACE 2022” in 4th International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, 18-19 October, 2022, Department of Civil Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India.
- Technical Advisory Committee Member for National Conference (Online) on Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering (AMIWRE-2020), September 19-20, 2020, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (INDIA).
- Acted as Session Chair for the session on “Water and Wastewater Modelling”, HYDRO-2019 (18-20 December 2019), Hyderabad, India.
- Technical Program Committee Member for 5th National Conference on Water, Environment & Society (NCWES-2018)” TEQIP II, IST, JNTUH, 04th – 05th June 2018.
- Technical Program Committee Member for DSANRM2017: Workshop on ‘Data Science for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (DSANRM), International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT, Hyderabad), Hyderabad, India, December 12, 2017.
- Technical Program Committee Member for 4th National Conference on Water, Environment & Society (NCWES-2017)” TEQIP II, IST, JNTUH, 16th – 18th March 2017.
- Technical Program Committee Member for 3rd National Conference on Water, Environment and Society (NCWES-2016), TEQIP II, IST, JNTUH, 06th – 08th June 2016.
Current Students
- Rajesh Maddu Ph.D. Scholar | rajesh.maddu@research.iiit.ac.in Ph.D. in Civil Engineering , Water Quality Modeling and Prediction using Hybrid Machine Learning methods. (Ongoing)
- Avantika Latwal Ph.D. Scholar | avantika.latwal@research.iiit.ac.in Ph.D. in Spatial Informatics, Water Quality estimation using Remote Sensing techniques (Ongoing)
- Priyanka Sah Ph.D. Scholar | priyanka.sah@research.iiit.ac.in Ph.D. In Spatial informatics, Remote Sensing, Landscape Characterization, Spatial Analysis Modeling, Forest Ecology (Ongoing)
- Mummidivarapu Satish Kumar Ph.D. Scholar | satishmummidivarapu266@gmail.com Ph. D in Civil Engineering , Water Quality and Quantity modelling, Water Resources Management. (Ongoing)
- Surendra Kumar Reddy Research scholar | surendra.kumar@research.iiit.ac.in B. Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science , Drought Assessment (Ongoing)
- Nannaka Venkata Sathya Vivek Research scholar | venkata.sathya@research.iiit.ac.in B. Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science , Climate Extremes Analysis (Ongoing)
- Mohammad Shikaf Ali S Junior Research Fellow | mohammad.shikaf@research.iiit.ac.in M.Tech in Geoinformatics, Development of Stormwater Harvesting model for Urban Environments of India (Ongoing)
- Arohi Srivastav Research Scholar | arohi.srivastav@research.iiit.ac.in B.Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science, Reservoir Inflow Prediction and Water Quality Management (Ongoing)
- Jaya Bharat Reddy B Research Scholar | jaya.bharat@research.iiit.ac.in B. Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science, Regional Drought Assessment over India During Climate Change (Ongoing)
Graduated students:
- Ravi Kishore Reddy Research scholar | meegada.reddy@research.iiit.ac.in Ph. D in Civil Engineering , Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction potential assessment, Waste utilization
- Veerannapet Santhosh Vishal Research Scholar | santhoshvishal.v@research.iiit.ac.in B.Tech in Civil Engineering and MS by Research in Building Science and Engineering, Water Quality, Hydrological Modelling and climate change
- Himanshi Singh Research Scholar | himanshi.singh@research.iiit.ac.in MS by research In Civil Engineering , Water Quality Modelling and Water Resource Management
- Sharath Chandra Vannam Research Scholar | sharathchandra.v@research.iiit.ac.in B. Tech in Civil Engineering and MS by Research in Building Science and Engineering, Hydrological Modelling, Drought Assessment
- P. N. Chandi Priya Research Scholar | nagachandi.p@research.iiit.ac.in MS by research In Civil Engineering, Water Resources Management Hydrological Modeling and Water Quality
- Adeeba Ayaz Research Scholar | adeeba.ayaz@research.iiit.ac.in MS by Research in Civil Engineering , Estimation of Potential and Actual Evapotranspiration under Limited Climate Data
- Sireesha Naidu Galla Research scholar | sireeshagalla@gmail.com B. Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science, Development of a Hydrometeorological Drought Index at river basin scale under Climate Change A Case study of Krishna River Basin
- Nellibilli Tinku Monish Research scholar | nellibilli.tinkumonish@alumni.iiit.ac.in B. Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science, Regional Drought Assessment over India using SPEI under Climate Change
- Ch Surendra Reddy Research scholar MS by Research in Civil Engineering, Evaluating the Use of Fly ash, Bottom ash and Municipal Solid Waste as Road Construction Materials
- Ambarakonda Pooja Research scholar MS by Research in Civil Engineering, Utilization of Agro and Industrial Wastes as Fill Materials in Retaining Structures