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  • Prof Rao S. Govindaraju

  • Visiting Professor
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Publications 1988 - 2023

Publications

  • 152
    Journal Articles
  • 26
    Book Chapter
  • 5
    Book
  • 158
    Conference
    Proceedings
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 8

Citations / H-Index

363 Citations
8 h-index
342 Citations

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Co-author Network


Expertise

Civil Engineering

Watershed hydrology; stochastic and statistical hydrology; spatial variability; modeling surface and subsurface water movement; fate and transport of contaminants; machine learning applications in hydrology.

Personal Information

Prof Rao S. Govindaraju

Male
Lyles School of Civil Engineering, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Ph: 765-496-3402; Fax: 765-494-0395; e-mail: govind@purdue.edu
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States - 47907


Experience

  • Visiting Professor

    Civil Engineering

    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

  • Visiting Professor

    Department of Civil Engineering

    Andhra University

  • Head

    Bowen Head of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering

    Purdue University

  • Professor

    Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor

    Purdue university

  • Professor

    School of Civil Engineering

    Purdue University

  • Associate Professor

    Civil Engineering

    Purdue University

  • Associate Professor

    Civil Engineering

    University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA

  • Assistant Professor

    Civil Engineering

    University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA

  • Research Associate

    Civil Engineering

    University of California, Davis, California State, USA


Qualification

  • Ph.D Civil Engineering

    University of California, Davis

  • M.S. Civil Engineering

    University of California, Davis

  • B.S. Civil Engineering

    University of California, Davis


Honours and Awards

2020

Purdue University’s 2018-2019 Innovators Hall of Fame

Purdue University

2019

• The Csallany-Zaporozec-Kanivetsky Award (also called as Founders Award

American Institute of Hydrology (2019) for outstanding, long-term, dedicated service

2019

ASCE Distinguished Member

Highest honor bestowed to members by ASCE

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2020

Purdue University’s 2018-2019 Innovators Hall of Fame

Purdue University

2019

• The Csallany-Zaporozec-Kanivetsky Award (also called as Founders Award

American Institute of Hydrology (2019) for outstanding, long-term, dedicated service

2019

ASCE Distinguished Member

Highest honor bestowed to members by ASCE

2019

ASCE Ven Te Chow Lifetime Achievement Award

ASCE

2016

ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award

ASCE

2015

G.M. Nawathe Puraskar

MANIT, Bhopal, India

2013

Alfred Noble Prize

joint society award with AIME, ASME, IEEE, and WSE

2013

STAHY Best Paper Award

IAHS

2012

Scientific and Technological Achievement Award

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

2010

EWRI Expression of Appreciation Certificate

Current and Future State of Water Resources & the Environment, Chennai, India

2009

S.N. Gupta Memorial Lecture Award

HYDRO-2009

2009

Best Challenge Paper Award

SensorKDD-2009

2009

Outstanding Service Award

EWRI Congress of the American Society of Civil Engineers

2009

Arid Lands Hydraulic Research Prize

EWRI Congress of the American Society of Civil Engineers

2007

Outstanding Service Award

EWRI Congress of the American Society of Civil Engineers

2005

Award of Recognition

2-nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held December 21-23, 2005, in Pune, India.

2004

Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

ASCE

2003

Best paper award

ASCE

1998

Best Reviewer Award

ASCE

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Doctoral Theses Guided

2022

Uncertainty in estimation of field-scale variability of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity

Abhishek Goyal, Purdue University

2021

Structural Uncertainty in Hydrological Models

Abhinav Gupta, Purdue University

2019

Drought characterization and impact assessment using probabilistic models

G. Mallya (co-advised), Purdue University

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2022

Uncertainty in estimation of field-scale variability of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity

Abhishek Goyal, Purdue University

2021

Structural Uncertainty in Hydrological Models

Abhinav Gupta, Purdue University

2019

Drought characterization and impact assessment using probabilistic models

G. Mallya (co-advised), Purdue University

2015

Identification of drought triggers in hydrologic and agricultural droughts

M. Ramadas, Purdue University

2014

Reliability, resilience and vulnerability as measures of ecological risk in watersheds

Y. Hoque, Purdue University

2014

Upscaling water movement and contaminant transport in heterogeneous unsaturated soils

R. Ojha, Purdue University

2012

Role of topography and runon on infiltration and hydrograph generation for small watersheds

Xianging Huang, Purdue University

2011

Hidden Markov model-based probabilistic assessment of droughts

G. Mallya, Purdue University

2010

Experimental Studies on Porous Pavers

E. Burke , Purdue University

2009

Statistical Learning Theories for Hydrologic Applications

S. Tripathi , Purdue University

2008

Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Indiana Hydrologic Data

S.-C. Kao, Purdue University

2008

Green design for stormwater applications

M. Burke, Purdue University

2008

Modeling infiltration and deep flow on sloping surfaces

E. Essig, Purdue University

2007

Environmental Performance Evaluation of a Wetland Complex

T. Konopka, Purdue University

2007

Curve Number Based Modeling of the Interaction between Surface Water and land Use Change in a Midwestern Watershed

B. Walker , Purdue University

2006

Hydraulic Performance Evaluation of a Wetland Complex

R. Sultana , Purdue University

2005

A modeling framework for evaluation of watershed management practices for sediment and nutrient control.

M. Arabi , Purdue University

2005

Modeling of Coarse Textured Soils and Their Hydraulic Properties

T.P. Chan, Purdue University

2003

Moment Analysis of Transport of Volatile Organics in Soils

Rishi Parashar, Purdue University

2003

Influence of the runon process on water and solute movement over heterogeneous hillslopes

N. Nahar, Purdue University

2002

GIS Tool for Analyzing Environmental Impacts from Cattle Feedlot Operations

James Hunter , Purdue University

2002

Sediment source area identification within watersheds using conditional travel time approaches.

Kalin Latif , Purdue University

2002

A Model for Transient Flow to a Subsurface Tile Drain

Jennifer Schmidt, Purdue University

2000

Investigation into the drainage system capacity and performance potential for the Ross-Ade drainage catchment.

Corrine Thomas, Purdue University

2000

Geomorphological artificial neural networks for predicting watershed response to precipitation events

B. Zhang, Purdue University

1999

Modeling of heavy metal movement in rhizosphere soils

K.V. Nedunuri, Purdue University

1999

Interval computing applications in quantifying field scale experiments

T.-P. Chan, Purdue University

1998

A comprehensive, integrated computer model for basin-wide water resources management

S. Ramireddygari (co-advised due to move to Purdue) , Purdue University

1998

Investigating the influence of spatial resolution on the watershed hydrograph

Kalin Latif, Purdue University

1998

Influence of first order degradation on spatial moment analysis of the convection-dispersion equation with kinetic sorption

N. Nahar, Purdue University

1997

The application of geographic information systems to hydrologic studies and models

V. Davis, Purdue University

1996

Prediction of watershed response to precipitation using a physically-based model and artificial neural networks (ANNs)

J. Anmala , Purdue University

1996

Modeling fate and transport of atrazine in the saturated-unsaturated zone of soil

P.K. Allepalli , Purdue University

1996

Hydraulic conductivity of soils with preferential flow paths

J. Lin, Purdue University

1995

Role of estimation methods in characterizing spatial variability of solute transport parameters

S. Nedunuri, Purdue University

1994

Pore evolution during colloidal clay particle removal under hydraulic gradients

S.K. Bhargarva, Purdue University

1991

Spatial averaging of unsaturated flow equations

Z.-Q. Chen , Purdue University

1990

Modeling of two-dimensional overland flows

G. Tayfur , Purdue University

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