Research Interest:
Brief Profile
Dr. Chandan Mahanta is currently a Professor and Head in the Civil Engineering Department. He is a Professor & former Head at the Centre for the Environment of IIT Guwahati. He has been a member of Board of Governors of NIT Sikkim and NIT Nagaland. He was an ASCE-EWRI visiting fellow at the Utah Water Research Laboratory of the Utah State University, USA and was EurIndia visiting fellow to the University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany. He was in the Monash Sustainability Institute of Monash University under the Australian Leadership Award Fellowship Programme and was part of the Hydro Diplomacy training program jointly conducted by MIT, Harvard University and Tufts University. Prof. Mahanta has served in various national and international committees including in working groups in the Planning Commission of India. Prof Mahanta has carried out projects focusing upon Natural Resource Management and particularly water resource management funded by national and international agencies including MHRD, MoUD, MoEF, DST, SIDA, EURINDIA, UNICEF, WWF and IUCN. Prof. Mahanta has authored more than seventy technical publications in peer reviewed journals, proceedings and books. He has organised trainings, workshops, conferences and has lectured to cross section of professionals in USA, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, China, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries including Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and has collaborations with several US and European universities. He has been helping Govt of India and in particular Govt of Assam in a range of water and environment related infrastructure projects. Prof. Mahanta has served as member of numerous committees including the Ministry of Power constituted Committee on Lower Subansiri Hydropower Project. The pioneering drinking water project he carried out in partnership with UNICEF and PHED Assam has now facilitated major investment in drinking water project in Assam under water quality sub plan of the Ministry of Drinking water and sanitation. He has been advisor to about twenty PhD and more than fifty Masters Students. One of his major projects on Brahmaputra River System attempted to leverage IT applications in building hydrological information system for smart management of this dynamic river.
EDUCATION
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Degree |
Institution |
Subjects/specialization |
Year |
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BSc |
Delhi University |
Physics,Maths,Geology |
1985 |
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MSc |
Delhi University |
Hydrogeology |
1988 |
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MPhil |
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Environmental Hydrology |
1990 |
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Ph.D. |
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Environmental Hydrology |
1994 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Period |
Experience |
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1999-2006 |
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India |
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2007-2009 |
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India |
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2009 to 2015 |
Present Professor (HAG), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India |
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2018 February onward |
Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati |