Name: Paresh Chandra Deka Highest qualification and awarding university PhD, Indian Institute of Technology,Guwahati Designation Professor Employer National Institute of Technology Karnataka,INDIA Contact details: Email: WhatsApp number/Mobile number +91-9663265183 Home page link on your employer web site if available http://www.nitk.ac.in/wroe/faculty_profiles//professor_Paresh chandra Deka Key areas of interest Water resources planning, surface and groundwater management and hydrological modeling with a focus on engaging stakeholders, community and government agencies to enhance sustainability of water use in both urban and rural watersheds. Web links for your research profile on Google scholar; ORCID or ResearchGate (if available); only one of them please. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user ORCID-0000-0003-1771-2496
Brief career profile
Paresh Chandra Deka is a professor in Water Resources under the department of water resources and Ocean Engg. at NITK,INDIA, has over 30 years’ teaching, research and outreach experience. His current research has a particular focus on: Hydrological modelling ; Application of Artificial Intelligence in water management; He is engaged in communities, governments and other stakeholders to address local and regional water issues. He was faculty in Arbaminch University, Ethiopia and visiting faculty at AIT, Bangkok. He has supervised 16 Phd scholars so far.He has more than 80 publications to his name, including 5 books,5 book chapters published by CRC press,Lap Lambert,Springer and over 50 articles in peer-reviewed, international journals and led several major externally funded research projects.
Two or three research projects completed or on-going
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Comprehensive design of drainage system at New Mangalore airport: Funding-Airport Authority of India
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Impact of land cover and type on soil hydraulic properties using field and laboratory techniques ; Funding: NITK, Mangalore, INDIA
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Identification of sand bars and volume estimation in Swarna, seetha and papanashini rivers of Udupi district, Karnataka: Funding-Govt. of Karnataka, INDIA.
Five key publications/reports
Bhuvanamitra S, Paresh Chandra Deka 2019 Evaluating the Performance of CHIRPS Satellite Rainfall Data for Streamflow Forecasting Water Resources Management (2019) 33:3913–3927 Sujay Raghavendra and Paresh Chandra Deka 2019 Artificial intelligence approaches for spatial modeling of streambed hydraulic conductivity ACTA GEOPHYSICA, SPRINGER, Volume 67, Issue 3, June 2019 ISSN: 1895-6572 (Print) 1895-7455 (Online) Pages 891-903 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-019-00283-5 Sujay Raghavendra and Paresh Chandra Deka 2018 Variability of streambed hydraulic conductivity in an intermittent stream reach regulated by Vented Dams: A case study JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY,562,2018,pp.477-491,Elsevier,Doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.006 Mohammad Rezaie, Sujay Raghavendra, Alireza Ghaemi, Paresh Chandra Deka 2017 Wavelet coupled MARS and M5 Model Tree approaches for groundwater level forecasting Journal of Hydrology,Elseviour,553,356-373 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hydrolcompag.2017.08.006 Leeladhar Pammar and Paresh Chandra Deka 2017 Daily pan evaporation modeling in climatically contrasting zones with hybridization of wavelet transform and support vector machines Paddy and Water environment journal, SPRINGER,Vol.15,no.4,pp.711-722, DOI 10.1007/s10333-016-0571-x,published online 22 May,2017