Name:

Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha

Highest qualification and awarding university

Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College, University of London, U.K.

Designation

IIT Roorkee Institute Chair Professor, Civil Engineering Department

Employer

IIT Roorkee, India

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  2. WhatsApp/Mobile number

 

cspojha@gmail.com, c.ojha@ce.iitr.ac.in

+ 91 98976 04320

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https://www.iitr.ac.in/departments/CE/pages/People+Faculty+Ojha_C_S_P_.html

Key areas of interest

Surface Water Hydrology, Ground Water Hydrology, Environmental and Fluvial Hydraulics, Water Resources Planning and Management, Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

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Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=4Ij6fogAAAAJ&hl=en

Citations: 3020, H-index :29, i10-index: 88.

 

 

Brief career profile

Dr C.S.P.Ojha is currently Institute Chair Professor, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee since June 2018. He is also Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA since Sept 2018. He has been Curtis Visiting Professor at Purdue University, USA from Aug. 2013-June 2013.

Dr Ojha has co-authored/co-edited nine books including a) Brahmaputra Water Resources, Kluwer, b) Engineering Hydrology, Oxford University Press, c) Fluid Mechanics and Machinery, Oxford University Press, d) Yamuna River system: Water Resources and Environment, Springer, e) Sustainable Water Resources Management, ASCE, etc. . He has also worked on Ganges River system. He has also supervised more than 50 PhD students in the area of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.

Dr Ojha was the Head of Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee, India from April 2015-March 2019. He is Fellow ASCE since 2017.

 

Research projects completed or on-going

  1. Has been Principal Indian Investigator for an Indo-U.K. project on Mitigating Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture from 2012-2016

  2. Has been Principal Indian Investigator for an Indo-U.K. project on Sustainable Water Resources Management of Himalayan Water Resources System from 2017-2020

 

Key publications

  1. Joshi, N., Ojha, C. S. P., Sharma, P. K., and Madramootoo, C. A. (2015). “Application of non-equilibrium fracture matrix model in simulating reactive contaminant transport through fractured porous media.” Water Resources Research, 51(1), 390-408

  2. Upreti, H. and Ojha, C.S.P. (2017), “Estimation of relative humidity and dew point temperature using limited meteorological data”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 143(9), 05017005

  3. C. Sharma, C.S.P. Ojha, A.K. Shukla, Q.B.Pham, N.T.T. Linh, C.M.Fai, H.H.Loc and T.D.Dung (2019) Modified Approach to reduce GCM Bias in Downscaled Precipitation: A study in Ganga River Basin, Water, 11(10), 2097, pp 1-31, https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102097

  4. S. Swetapadma and C.S.P. Ojha (2020). Selection of a basin‑scale model for flood frequency analysis in Mahanadi river basin, India, Natural Hazards, April, Springer, pp 1-34, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03936-7

  5. C. Sharma, and C.S.P.Ojha (2020), Modified Signal-to-Noise Ratio Method for Early Detection of Climate Change, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, in press, pp. 1-15