Dr. Susmita Ghosh

Susmita
Associate Professor
Phone: +91-7086833798
Email: susmita@civil.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 10/13/2015
Academic/Industrial Experience (in years): 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE (Details)

since October’2023: Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, NIT Silchar

October’2015 to September’2023: Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, NIT Silchar

July’2015 to Sept’2015:Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, NIT Hamirpur

July’2009 to June’2015: Engineer/senior Engg./Project Manager at JACOBS -CES (I) Pvt. Ltd

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (FULL DETAILS )

  • Ph.D. (Water Resources Engineering) from IIT- Roorkee
  • M.Tech. (Hydraulic Engineering) from IIT- Roorkee
  • B.E. (Civil Engineering) from Jalpaiguri Govt. Engg. College

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Groundwater modelling and Management
  • Hydrological modelling; Hydrodynamic modelling
  • Hydraulics
  • Soft computing
  • Remote sensing & GIS
  • Climate Change

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

 PROJECT

Title:Sustainable development of groundwater resources by the preparation of hydrogeological and hydrogeophysical database of Barak River basin, Cachar, Assam

Role: PI

cost: 48.42 lakhs

Funding agency : DST- SERB, India

Duration: 3 years

Status: ongoing (start from 2023)

 

EDITORSHIP

 

BOOKS / BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “Model Assisted planning of groundwater Development” by Kashyap, D and Ghosh,S, Chapter-16 of ASCE book on ‘Sustainable water Resources’ online published on Oct’2017, ISBN:9780784480908.
  • Ghosh, S.; Gupta, S. and Ghosh, S. 2021“Modelling of Groundwater Development Using Arc-SWAT and MODFLOW” book chapter on “Water Management and Water Governance. DOI: 1007/978-3-030-58051-3_20. Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-58050-6
  • Malakar, P. and Ghosh, S.2022 “ANN model of groundwater development for irrigation” on Water Science Technology Library, Vol 119, Groundwater and water quality.
  • Tushar khankhoje and Ghosh,S. 2023.Book Chapter of “Study of data augmentation technique for discharge prediction problems including meandering parameters” by, on Book ‘Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering’

MEMBER 

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

UG

Hydraulics

Open channel flow

Modeling simulation and application

Evolutionary Algorithm in search and optimization

Environmental Science

Surveying

Irrigation & flood control

PG

Groundwater Hydrology

Computational methods in WRE

Water resources planning and management

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

  1. MHRD Scholarship during Mtech and PhD
  2. Special award for presenting a paper in conference (2004)

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

 

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JOURNALS

    • Ahmed, S. S., Ghosh, S and Barbhuiya, A.K. Characteristics of Thalweg Profile and Cross-sectional Geometry along Alluvial River Bends” ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. (SCOPUS) DOI – 10.1080/09715010.2024.2383187 (in press)
    • Ahmed, S. S., Ghosh, S and Barbhuiya, A.K.(2024). Flow resistance coefficient of meandering river in alluvial plain and its prediction using artificial neural network.Internaltional journal for numerical methods in fluids. 96,3, 364-379, (online published) (SCI) doi.org/10.1002/fld.5247
    • Apurba Nath, Ghosh S (2022).The influence of urbanization on the morphology of the Barak River floodplain in Cachar District, Assam. Water Policy.24(12), 1876–1894. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.133 (SCI)
    • Singh MK, Ghosh S (2022). River aquifer interaction modeling for the waterlogged aquifer and sustainable groundwater irrigation along river flood plain. Journal of Geological society of India, Springer, 98, 1271-1282 (SCI).   https://doi:1007/s12594-022-2162-3
    • Singh, M and Ghosh, S. (2022). “Groundwater flow modeling for cachar, india using modflow: case study” ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 28(2),  232-242, https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2020.1868357 (SCOPUS )
    • Apurba Nath and Ghosh, S. (2022). Meandering Rivers’ Morphological changes Analysis and Prediction- a case study of Barak River, Assam. H2Open Journal (2022) 5 (2): 289–306. https://doi.org/10.2166/h2oj.2022.003. (SCOPUS)
    • Apurba Nath and Ghosh, S. (2022). Assessment of river morphology based on changes in land use and land cover and the spatial and temporal variation of meandering parameters of the Barak River. Water Practice and Technology, 17(11), 2351–2370, https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2022.114 (SCOPUS)
    • Kriti Mukherjee, Atanu Bhattacharya, Tino Pieczonka, S Ghosh, Tobias Bolch, “Glacier mass budget and climate reanalysis data indicate a climatic shift around 2000 in Lahaul-Spiti, western Himalaya,” Climate Change [Springer],  148, pages219–233 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2185-3  (SCI )
    • Ghosh, S. and Kashyap, D. (2012) “kernel function model for planning of agricultural groundwater development” Journal of Water Resources planning and Management,138(3),277-286. https://doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000178   (SCI)
    • Ghosh,S.and Kashyap,D. (2012) “ANN based planning of groundwater development for agricultural usuage.” Irrigation and Drainage (Willey Inter science). 61(4), 55.5-564, https://doi:10.1002/ird.686    (SCI)
    • Ghosh, S. and Ahmad, Z. (2006). Characteristics of flow over bottom racks. Water and Energy International (CBIP), 63(2), pp.47-55. (SCOPUS)

 

CONFERENCES

  1. Singh, M K, Ghosh, S. Analysis of the waterlogged groundwater system of Cachar, Assam using MODFLOW. International conference on water resources, ocean and environmental engineering (ICWROEE 2024), 17– 18th February 2024.
  2. A Nath , S S Ahmed, S Prakash, Ghosh S, S M Pore.,Land use and land cover change analysis using GIS and remote sensing: A case study of Sutlej watershed, Punjab, International conference on water resources, ocean and environmental engineering (ICWROEE 2024), 17– 18th February 2024
  3. A Nath, S Ghosh. Hydro-Morphological Responses of Meandering Rivers to Changes in Rainfall: A Comprehensive Study on Barak Flood Plain. International Conference on Natural Disaster: Risk Analysis, Management and Mitigation (NDRAMM -2024), March 23– 24th, 2024
  4. T Sarkar, S Talukdar and Ghosh S. Conjuntive use of groundwater and surface water for optimal cropping pattern, Dec22-24,2022, (HYDRO 2022).
  5. A Nath, S S Ahmed, Prakash S and Ghosh S. variation in sinuosity concerning river migration- A case study of the Sutlaj River Punjab, Dec22-24,2022.Hydro-2022
  6. Mrinal Kumar Singh and Ghosh S. Comparison of groundwater estimation method (GEC) and SWT model for the estimation of groundwater recharge for the waterlogged groundwater system of Cachar, Assam using MODFLOW, Dec22-24,2022.Hydro-2022.
  7. S S Ahmed, Barbhuiya A K and Ghosh S. Field studies on 3-Dimentional flow characteristics at a River bend using acoustic doppler current profiler, Dec22-24,2022,Hydro-2022
  8. Khankhoje, T. and Ghosh, S. “Discharge predictions of meandering river using artificial neural networks”. Hydro-2020.
  9. Dwarika prasad and Ghosh, S. Groundwater prospect mapping using remote sensing and GIS in Cachar district of Assam, IGWC 2022 – 9 th International Groundwater Conference on Effective Management of (Sub)-surface water resources in arid and semi-arid regions, Nov 3-5, 2022, IIT Roorkee.
  10. Nath,A. and Ghosh, S. 2019. Dam break modeling of an Earthen Dam for flood forcasting. 18-19th Dec,2019.24th Hydrp 2019, Osmania University.
  11. Malakar, P. and Ghosh, S. “ANN model of groundwater development for irrigation” International conference, Hydro-2018, NIT Patna.
  12. Ghosh, S. Gupta, S and Ghosh, S.” Modelling of Groundwater Development Using Arc-SWAT and MODFLOW” Sustainable Technologies for Intelligent Water management (STIWM) 2018, International Conference, February16-19, 2018, IIT Roorkee.
  13. Bhattacharya, A.; Ghosh, S. and Mukherjee, K.” Multi-decadal Mass Budget and Area Change of Some Eastern Himalayan Glaciers (Nepal-Sikkim) Using Remote Sensing Techniques”. RAIT 2018: IEEE international conference. March 15-17, 2018, ISM Dhanbad.
  14. Kashyap, D. and Ghosh, S. “Planning of Sustainable Agricultural Groundwater Development in Canal Command Areas.” Sustainable irrigation- 2012. International conference Transactions of the Wessex Institute eLibrary sustainable irrigation and drainage-IV, 159-170, WIT Transactions on the Ecology and the Environment, vol-168, ISSN-1743-3541 (online), doi:10.2495//S1120141. (SCOPUS indexed Conference)
  15. Kashyap, D. and Ghosh, S.” ANN-Assisted Planning of Conjunctive Use of Canal and Ground Water in Canal Commands”, International Conference Proceeding of “American Institute of Physics” May, 2010,vol-1233, pp.1477-1482.doi:10.1063/1.3452125. (SCOPUS indexed Conference)
  16. Nath, A. and Ghosh, S; Dam break analysis using HEC-RAS- a case study of AJI I dam,Rajkot SPACE 2017,1 st September’2017. (SCOPUS Indexed conference)
  17. Ahmed, S. S. Barbhuiya, A.K. and Ghosh, S. Flow measurement at a river Bend using acoustic Doppler Current profiler (adcp). National Conference on ‘Hydrology and Watershed Management” (NCHWM-2017), 24-25th March’2017, NIT Silchar, Assam
  18. S. Ghosh and Ghosh. J.K. (2004),”GPS Based Estimation of Real Time Agricultural Water Demand”, Abstract: 24th ISRS Annual Convention and National Symposium,“Converging Space Technologies for National Development”, November 3-5, Jaipur, India, pp.6-8 (awarded).

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

WORKSHOP / CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

Sl No. International Conference Date Role
1. International Conference on Water Resources, Ocean and Environmental Engineering (ICWROEE 2024). 10-11th Feb’2024 organizing Secretary
2. Natural Disaster: Risk Analysis, Management and Mitigation (NDRAMM), NIT Silchar collaboration with ASDMA 23-24th March’2024 organizing Secretary

 

Sl. No. From To Name of the course As Co-Ordinator Number ofparticipants
1 08/04/2019 12/04/2019  Short term course on “Integrated soil Water modeling” at NIT Silchar, Civil Engg. Dept. Coordinator 46
 2 28/09/2020 02/10/2020 Virtual workshop on “Climate change impact on water resources system” at NIT Silchar, Civil Engg. Dept. Coordinator 350

 PHD SCHOLARS

2(completed); 1(submitted); 5 (ongoing)

Sl No. Scholar Name Thesis title status Role
1 Apurba Nath Assessments and Prediction of morphological changes for the flood plain of meandering River Barak, Assam awarded Supervisor (Sole)
2. Mrinal Kumar Singh Analysis of Groundwater flow and river-aquifer interaction for waterlogged system using SWAT and MODFLOW model and proposing sustainable groundwater irrigation awarded Supervisor (Sole)
3 Sayed Sadulla Ahmed Study of Meander Characteristics and its Effect on the Flow of River Submitted Main Supervisor (jointly)

 

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

14 (Completed), 1(ongoing)