FOUNDERS

Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary

Ph.D. Candidate (Hydraulics) | Utah State University, USA
M.Tech. Water Resources Development, IIT Roorkee, India
Position: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at IIHR
Areas of interest: Hydraulic Structure, River Engineering, Scour
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Khem Prasad Bhattarai

Ph.D. Candidate (Hydraulics) | Colorado State University, USA
M.Sc.| Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China
Position: Director for Project Development at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Hydropower Structures
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Ravi Kumar Mishra

Ph.D. Student (Water Resources Engineering) | IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India
M.Tech. Civil (Hydraulic Engineering), IIT Roorkee, India
Position: Director for Organizational Administration at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Fluvial Hydraulics, Hydraulic Structures
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Pratyush Jha

M.Tech. Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India
Position: Director for Public Relation at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Muli-hazard resilient structures, Bridge engineering
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Naresh Suwal

Ph.D. Candidate (Hydrology)| Louisiana State University, USA
M.Sc. Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China
Position: Director for Capacity Building at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Hydrology and Irrigation
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Ishwar Joshi

Ph.D. Candidate (River Science)| Utah State University, USA
M.Sc. Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China
Position: Director for Innovation at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Fluvial Hydraulics, Sediment Transport
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Kamal Prasad Pandey

Ph.D. Candidate (Ecohydraulics) | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
M.Sc. Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China
Position: Director at IIHR
Areas of Interest: Eco-hydraulics
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ADVISORS

Dr. Ana Margarida Bento

Visiting researcher at NTNU
Invited Assistant Professor at ESA-IPVC and IPG
Post-doctorate researcher at POSEIDON project, at CIIMAR – FEUP
Co-opted member of the IAHR Europe Division Leadership Team
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Dr. Binit Kumar

Ph.D. Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, IIT Roorkee, India
Assistant Professor
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT or NIT Allahabad)
Areas of Interest: Hydraulic Structures
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RESEARCH FELLOWS

Ritesh Jaiswal

M.Tech. Water Resources Development, IIT Roorkee, India
Senior Engineer, WSP (India)
Areas of Interest: Flood Modeling
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Apoorva Aladalli

M.Phil in Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science
Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK
Area of Interest: Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of Earth Systems
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Taha Aawar

M.Tech. Water Resources Development, IIT Roorkee, India
Ph.D. Candidate Water Resource Engineering, IIT Delhi, India
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Salil Raj Aryal

M.Tech. Water Resource Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of South Alabama, USA
Project Manager, Engineering Design Group, USA
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Kirtan Adhikari

M.Tech. Surface Water Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, India
Associate Lecturer, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan
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Gopal Singh Bhandari

M.Sc. Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Assistant Professor, IOE Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University
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Namuna Dhakal

Graduate Research Assistant, Utah State University, USA
Area of Interest: Irrigation, Hydrology
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RESEARCH INTERNS

Shivam Kumar Singh

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Pokhara University, Nepal
Area of Interest: Hydrology and Hydro‑Climatology
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