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SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

At present he is holding the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Silchar. He has published more than 30 number of Research Paper in total out of which more than 20 are in reputed Journals, 04 in edited books and the rest in Conferences. Current and previous research interests area includes Coastal Engineering; Remote Sensing and GIS applications. Dr. Prashanth is also associated with some Important International Journals as Referee and Reviewer.

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 PATENT(S)

• Patent No. 2021107095 / Australian Government – Innovation Patent/ A Process for Removal of Hazardous Dye from Aqueous Media Using Low-Cost Peanut Shells as Adsorbents
• Patent No. 2022/00094 / Republic of South African – Invention Patent/ An Integrated Device for Compositing and Vermi-Compositing of Organic Waste Materials
• Patent 20 2022 105 575/ Federal Republic of Germany – Innovation Patent/ System for Production of Biosorbents for the Adsorption of Lead and Copper in Aqueous Solution.

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 SPONSORED PROJECTS

• Co-Principal Investigator of the project titled, “Design, Development, and Performance Analysis of a Diffuser-Augmented Low-Head Acrhimedes Screw Hydrokinetic Turbine“, sanctioned by IITG-TIH, duration 2024-2027, Rs. 24.0 Lakh, Status-On-going
• Co-Principal Investigator of the project titled, “Capacity Building of Faculty and Institutions towards Design and Entrepreneurship Development“, under the program ‘Capacity Building on Design and Entrepreneurship (CBDE)’, Ministry of Education, GoI, duration 2024-2029, Rs. 50.0 Lakh, Status-On-going

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Ph.D. SCHOLARS SUPERVISED

04 (completed), 01 (submitted)

M.TECH. SCHOLARS SUPERVISED

17 (completed), 01 (ongoing)

B.TECH. PROJECTS SUPERVISED

14 (completed), 01 (ongoing)

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BOOKS

1. Prashanth J, Pruthviraj U, Subhash C. Yaragal, “Shelter Effect of Porous Wind Fences In Open Coal Storage Yard at Harbour” LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8465-4045-9, 2011.
2. Prashanth Janardhan, Parthasarathi Choudhury, D. Nagesh Kumar, “Water and Environment, Volume 2: Proceedings of ICWROEE 2024″, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Springer Nature, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-97-7501-9 / 978-981-97-7502-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7502-6.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Prashanth J., Harish Narayana, Ramji Prasad (2019), “Pervious Concrete with LLDPE Powder as Fine Aggregate”, In: Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 801, Trans Tech
2. Adarsha S., Harish N., Janardhan P., Mandal S. (2020), “Elephant Herding Optimization Based Neural Network to Predict Elastic Modulus of Concrete”, In: Das K., Bansal J., Deep K., Nagar A., Pathipooranam P., Naidu R. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1048. Springer, Singapore.
3. Rajendra Nath Paul, Prashanth Janardhan, and Harish Narayana, (2022), “Numerical Modelling of Infiltration rate”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Technologies: ICoCIST 2021. Springer
4. Harish Narayana and Prashanth Janardhan, (2023), “Application of Swarm Based Approaches for Elastic Modulus Prediction of Recycled Aggregate Concrete”, A. Biswas et (eds.), Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Studies in Computational Intelligence 1054, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 154-167.
5. Bindesh Nunia, Satyabrata Choudhury, and Prashanth, (2022), “Dynamic Analysis of a Vehicle Bridge Interaction System Under Simultaneous Vertical Excitation from Train Induced Ground Vibration and Moving Vehicle”, In: J. A. Fonseca de Oliveira Correia et al. (Eds.): ASMA 2021, Structural Integrity 19, Springer, Singapore, pp. 95–116.
6. Partha Pratim Sarkar, Prashanth Janardhan, and Parthajit Roy, (2023), “Analysing the Changing Variations of Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD)—Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) Relationship Across Northeast India”, In: A. Sil et al. (eds.), Recent Trends in Civil Engineering, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 274, Springer, Singapore, pp 585-
7. Koushik Das, P. Janardhan, and H. Narayana, (2023), “Detection of Oil Spills Using Sentinel-1 Data”, In: Sil et al. (eds.), Recent Trends in Civil Engineering, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 274, Springer, Singapore, pp 575-583.
8. Prashanth Janardhan, Harish Narayana and Vindhya Srinivas, (2024), “Temporal Change Studies in Kaziranga National Park”, Proceedings of 2024 The 7th International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications (ICMVA 2024), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp 21-26.

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Engineering Graphics; Environmental Engineering I and II; Design of RC Structures; Wind Engineering; Structural Analysis I; Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System; Civil Engineering Materials, Testing and Evaluation; Computer Aided Building Drawing Laboratory; Strength of Materials Laboratory; Environmental Engineering Laboratory; Hydraulics Laboratory; Structural Engineering Laboratory

Computer Aided Analysis and Computer Applications; Applications of RS & GIS in Water Resources Engineering; Coastal Engineering and Coastal Zone Management

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INTERNATIONAL/ NATONAL JOURNALS

1. Das, K., Janardhan, P., and Narayana, H. (2024), “Mauritius oil spill detection using transfer learning approach for oil spill mapping and wind impact analysis using Sentinel-1 data”, International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, Vol 18, No. 4, 2024, pp.421-444.
2. Prashanth Janardhan, Harish Narayana, and N. Darshan, (2023), “Compressive strength studies of concrete with partial replacement of cement and fine aggregate with incinerated solid waste and recycled plastic waste”, Materials Today: Proceedings.
3. Das, K., Janardhan, P., and Narayana, H. (2023), “Application of CNN based image classification technique for oil spill detection”, Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, Vol. 52 (01), January 2023, pp.05-14.
4. Dabholkar, T., Narayana, H. and Janardhan, P., (2023), “A review of soft computing techniques in predicting the compressive strength of concrete and the future scope”, Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 8, 176 (2023).
5. Harish Narayana and Prashanth Janardhan, (2021), “PSO based neural network to predict torsional strength of FRP strengthened RC beams”, Computers and Concrete, 28 (6), 635-642.
6. Sarkar, P. P., Janardhan, P., and Roy, P. (2021), “A novel deep neural network model approach to predict Indian Ocean dipole and Equatorial Indian Ocean oscillation indices”, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 96, 101266.
7. Sarkar, P. P., Janardhan, P., and Roy, P. (2021), “Indian Ocean Dipole: Assessing its impacts on the Indian summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) across North East India”, Mausam, 72(4), 821-834.
8. Narayana Harish and Prashanth Janardhan (2021), “Support vector machine in predicting epoxy glass powder mixed cement concrete”, Materials Today: Proceedings 46 (2021) 9042–9046.
9. Partha Pratim Sarkar, Prashanth Janardhan and Parthajit Roy (2021), “Predictibility of El nino southern oscillation using artificial neural networks: A review”, Disaster Advances, 14 (1), pp. 64-80.
10. Herbert, A., Kumar, U., and Janardhan, P. (2021), “Removal of hazardous dye from aqueous media using low‐cost peanut (Arachis hypogaea) shells as adsorbents”, Water Environment Research, 93(7), 1032-1043.
11. Sarkar, P. P., Janardhan, P., and Roy, P. (2020), “Prediction of sea surface temperatures using deep learning neural networks”, SN Applied Sciences, 2(8), 1-14.
12. Nunia, B., Rahman, T., Choudhury, S., and Janardhan, P. (2020), “Effect of vehicle speed and road surface roughness on the impact factor of simply supported bridges due to IRC Class A and B loading”, SN Applied Sciences, 2(5), 1-24.
13. Prashanth Janardhan and Narayana Harish (2019) “Numerical modelling of shelter effect of porous wind fences”, Wind and Structures, An International Journal, Vol. 29, No. 5, 313-321.
14. Narayana Harish, Prashanth Janardhan and Sanjeev Sangami, (2018), “Effective adsorption of lead and copper from aqueous solution by samaneasaman and banana stem” Advances in Environmental Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, 225-237.
15. Bipasha Das, Prashanth Janardhan, (2017), “Model Development and Load Analysis of Offshore Jacket Structure using SAP2000”, International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), Vol. 5 Issue IV, April 2017, 1482-1493.
16. Prashanth J., Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Vishwanath N., (2012), “Wave Run-Up, Run-Down studies on reshaped Berm Breakwater with artificial armour units”, International Journal of Earth sciences and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 04 (02), August 2012, pp 1052-1056.
17. Subba Rao, Arkal Vittal Hegde, G. S. Dwarakish, Prashanth J. and D. V. Reddy, (2012), “Seawalls: Performance and their failure analysis along Southern Karnataka, West Coast of India”, International Journal of Earth sciences and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 2012, pp 18-29.
18. Purthviraj U, Prashanth J., Subhash C Yaragal and M K Nagaraj, (2011), “Study on shelter effect of solid wind fences”, International Journal of Earth sciences and Engineering, vol. 04, No. 1, February 2011, pp 158-164.
19. Prashanth Janardhan, Subba Rao and Kiran G. Shirlal, (2018), “Reshaping berm breakwaters: A physical model study”, Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, Vol. 47 (05), May 2018, 1050-1057
20. Manu, Subba Rao, Kiran G. shirlal, Prashanth J. and Balakrishna Rao K., (2011), “Physical Model studies on stability of concrete armoured breakwaters”, ISH journal of Hydraulic Engineering, special issue, Vol. 17, No. 3, October, 51-60.

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 INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. Rajendra Nath Paul, Prashanth Janardhan, and Harish Narayana, (2021), “Experimental and Numerical Modelling of Infiltration rate”, Futuristic and Sustainable Aspects in Engineering and Technology (FSAET 2021), 24-26th December 2021, GLA University, Mathura.
2. Rajendra Nath Paul, Prashanth Janardhan, and Harish Narayana, (2021), “Numerical Modelling of Infiltration rate”, International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Sustainable Technologies (ICoCIST-2021), 28-30th October 2021, NIT Silchar & NIT Sikkim.
3. Bindesh Nunia, Satyabrata Choudhury, and Prashanth J., (2021), “Dynamic Analysis of a vehicle bridge interaction system under simultaneous vertical excitation from train induced ground vibration and moving vehicle”, International Conference on Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications (ASMA-2021), 06-08th October 2021, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India.
4. Sarkar P. P., Janardhan P., and Roy P. J., (2021), “Analyzing the changing variations of Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) – Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) relationship across North East India.”, 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE-2021), 17-19th September 2021, NIT Silchar, Assam, India.
5. Koushik Das, Janardhan P., and Nayarana H., (2021), “Detection of Oil Spills using Sentinel-1 data”, 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE-2021), 17-19th September 2021, NIT Silchar, Assam, India.
6. Franics C. George, Prashanth Janardhan and Harish Narayana (2020), “Experimental Investigation on Flexural Behavior of Voided RCC Beams with Voids in Both Compression and Tension Zone”, The 2020 World Congress on The 2020 Structures Congress (Structures20), 25-28, August, 2020, GECE, Seoul, Korea.
7. Bindesh Nunia, Prashanth J. and S. Choudhury, (2020), “Coupled Dynamic Analysis of Freestanding Bridge Pylon Subjected to Extreme Environmental Loads”, 2nd ASCE India Conference on “Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies” (CRSIDE2020), March 2-4, 2020, Hotel Novotel, Kolkata, India.
8. Koushik Das, Janardhan P., and Nayarana H., (2019), “Detection of Oil Spill using Brightness Temperature Data”, 1st International Conference on Water Security and Sustainability (Down to Earth – 2019), 13-14th December 2019, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India.
9. Sarkar P. P., Janardhan P., and Roy P. J., (2019), “Prediction of El Nino Southern Oscillation using Artificial Neural Networks”, 1st International Conference on Water Security and Sustainability (Down to Earth – 2019), 13-14th December 2019, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India.
10. Narayana Harish and Prashanth Janardhan, (2019), “Support Vector Machine in Predicting Epoxy Glass Powder Mixed Cement Concrete”, International conference on Advanced Trends In Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (ATMA-2019), 7-9 November2019, Dayananda Sagar University, School of Engineering, India, 7-9th November 2019
11. Harish Narayana, Shivkumar Hosamani and Prashanth Janardhana (2019), “Studies on Green Concrete Pavement: Experimental and SVM Modelling”, International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management (SUSCOM 2019), February 26-28, 2019, Amity University, Jaipur, India.
12. Prashanth J., Harish Narayana, Ramji Prasad (2019), “Pervious Concrete with LLDPE Powder as Fine Aggregate”, 4th International Conference on Composite Materials and Material Engineering (ICCMME2019), January 19-22, 2019, Tokyo, Japan.
13. Adarsha B.S., Narayana Harish, Prashanth Janardhan, and Sukomal Mandal (2018), “Elephant Herding Optimization Based Neural Network To Predict Elastic Modulus Of Concrete”, 8th International Conference Soft Computing for Problem Solving – SocProS 2018, December 17-19, 2018, Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
14. Prashanth Janardhan, Jupiter Rajkumar, Harish N., M L V Prasad, (2017), “Hydrological Modelling and GIS for Early Flood Warning System”, Conference Abstract on International Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies for Natural Resource Management and Climate Change, December 21 – 22, 2017, Hyderabad, Telengana, India, 51.
15. Prashanth Janardhan, Harish Narayan and Sukomal Mandal, (2017), “Prediction of Tides off Mithividi, Gujarat – West Coast of India”, Proceedings of the 37th IAHR World Congress, August 13 – 18, 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5366-5372.
16. Jagadeesh H. B., Geetha Kuntoji, Subba Rao, and Prashanth. J, (2016), “Development of Lagoon Type of Harbor Basin along Low Coastal Lands with Flat Sea Bed Slopes and Soft Soils” 10th International Symposium on Lowland Technology (ISLT 2016), held at NITK, Surathkal, India during September 15-17, 2016.
17. Prashanth Janardhan, Harish N., Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, (2015), “Performance of Variable Selection Method for the Damage Level Prediction of Reshaped Berm Breakwater”, International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ICWRCOE 2015), held at NITK, Surathkal, India during 12-14 March 2015.
18. Geetha Kuntoji, Subba Rao and Prashanth J., (2013), “Investigation on berm breakwaters using concrete cubes as armour units”, International conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2013) held at IIT, Madras, during 4 -6 December 2013.
19. Prashanth J., Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Vishwanath N., (2012), “Wave Run-Up, Run-Down studies on reshaped Berm Breakwater with artificial armour units”, 2nd International Engineering Symposium – IES 2012 held at Kumamoto University, Japan during 5-7 March 2012.
20. Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J., (2012), “Berm breakwater study with concrete cubes – An experimental approach”, 8th International Conference on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries (COPEDEC 2012) held at IIT, Madras, during 20-24 February 2012.
21. Subba Rao, Kiran G. shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J., (2011), “Wave run-up, run-down studies on berm breakwater with concrete cubes as armour units”, 6th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2011) held at University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong during 14 – 16 December 2011.
22. Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J., (2011), “Concrete cubes as artificial armour units: A laboratory study on berm breakwaters”, International conference on Advances in Materials and Techniques for Infrastructure Development (AMTID 2011) held at NIT, Calicut during 28-30 September 2011.
23. Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J., (2011), “Investigation of Stability of berm breakwater with concrete cubes as armour units”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2011) held at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karnataka during 4-5 May 2011.
24. Prashanth J, Harish N and Anup D P (2016). “Properties of pervious concrete made with quarry dust.” National Conference on “Sustainable Materials and Management systems in Civil Engineering (NCS2MCE’16), held at CBIT-Hyderabad during 15-16 December 2016, 326-330.
25. Sainath Vaidya, Prashanth J, Geetha Kuntoji, and Subba Rao. (2014). “Study of the influence of berm width on wave run-up and wave run-down with artificial armour units.” First Annual Conference on Innovations and Developments in Civil Engineering, ACIDIC-2014, held at NITK, Surathkal, India during 19-20 May 2014.
26. J. Prashanth, Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, and K. Balakrishna Rao, (2013), “Experimental studies on berm breakwater with different armour units”, Fifth Indian National Conference on Harbour and Ocean Engineering – INCHOE held at NIO, Goa during 5 -7 February 2014.
27. Prashanth J, Subba Rao, Kiran G Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K and Danny Thomas (2013). “Experimental Studies On Reshaping Berm Breakwaters With Artificial Armour Units.” National Conference on New Horizons in Civil Engineering – NHCE 2013, held at MIT, Manipal during 12-13 April, 859-865.
28. Danny Thomas, Prashanth J. and Subba Rao. (2013). “Experimental Analysis on Berm Breakwater using Artificial Armour Units – Studies on Wave Run-Up and Run-Down.” Workshop on Disaster Management of Floods and Consequences thereof in Coastal Region and Food and Water Security, held at NITK, Surathkal during 4-5 February 2013.
29. Geetha K., Prashanth J. and Subba Rao. (2013). “Investigation on berm breakwaters using concrete cubes as armour units.” National Seminar on Coastal Environments & their Management, held at Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri during 21-22 January 2013.
30. Prashanth J., Subba Rao, Kiran G. shirlal, Geetha Kuntoji and Balakrishna Rao K. (2012), “Reshaped Berm Breakwater with Artificial Armour Units – Studies on Wave Run-Up and Run-Down”, National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2012) held at IIT, Bombay during 7-8 December 2012.
31. Subba Rao, Prashanth J. and Mithun Shetty, (2012), “Performance Characteristics of Berm Breakwater with Concrete Cube as Armour Units”, National Conference On Contemporary Civil Engineering Research And Practices – CCERP 2012 held at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka during 20-21 April 2012.
32. Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J. and Sharath kumar, (2011), “Study on stability of berm breakwater with artificial armour units”, National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2011) held at NIT, Surat during 29-30 December 2011.
33. Subba Rao, Kiran G. Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K. and Prashanth J., (2011), “Study on berm breakwater with concrete cubes as armour unit”, National Seminar on Coastal Hazards, Resources and Management held at Mangalore University, Mangalore during 25-26 March 2011.
34. Subba Rao, Kiran G Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K and Prashanth J., (2011), “Stability analysis of berm breakwater with concrete cubes as armour units”, National Conference on Recent Development in Civil Engineering – RDCE 2011 held at Manipal Insititue of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka during 13-14 January 2011.
35. Subba Rao, Kiran G Shirlal, Balakrishna Rao K and Prashanth J., (2010), “An experimental study on berm breakwater with concrete cubes”, National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2010) held at MMU, Mullana during 16-18 December 2010.
36. Prashanth J., Sridevi H, Pruthviraj U, Subhash C Yaragal and M K Nagaraj, (2010), “Use of porous fences in open storage yard at harbor”, National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management – SWaRM 2010 held at National Institute of Technology Karnataka during 07-09 January 2010.
37. Subrahmanya Kundapura and Prashanth Janardhan, (2009), “Climate Change and Effects – Indian Scenario”, 24th Indian Engineering Congress held at National Institute of Technology Karnataka during 10-13 December 2009.

1. Coordinator in TEQIP III sponsored one-week workshop Integrated Soil Water Modelling (ISWM 2019) organized by NIT Silchar during 8-12th April 2019.
2. Coordinator in  TEQIP  III  sponsored  one-week  workshop  Hazard  Mitigation  of  Onshore  and Offshore Structures (HMOOS-2019) organized by NIT Silchar during 26-30th April 2019.
3. Coordinator in TEQIP III sponsored Five days International Virtual workshop on Climate Change Impact on Water Resources Systems (CCIWRS 2020) organized by NIT Silchar during 28th Sept – 02nd Oct 2020.
4. Coordinator in IIC, N.I.T. Silchar sponsored One day Workshop on Future in Engineering Education in Light of New Education Policy 2020 on 15th December 2020 at N.I.T. Silchar, Assam.
5. Coordinator in IIC, N.I.T. Silchar sponsored Celebration of National Pollution Control Day on 02nd December 2021 at N.I.T. Silchar, Assam
6. Coordinator in IIC, N.I.T. Silchar sponsored One day Webinar on Advances, Innovations in Construction Technology/ Project Management and Career Opportunities in Core Sector on 26th February 2022 at N.I.T. Silchar, Assam