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Vineeth V

Vineeth V Email-ID : vineethv@rajagiri.edu

Vineeth is pursuing a Ph.D. in Water resources management from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His area of research is Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Urban Groundwater Level using ML & Deep Learning models. He holds a master's Degree in Water Resources Engineering & Management from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK), and a bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kerala. His areas of research interest are water resources management, environmental economics, geospatial analysis, operations research, machine learning, and deep learning.

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D. (Status: Thesis writing) in Water resources management – IISc Bangalore
  • M.Tech. in Water resources engineering & management (2013-2015) – NIT Surathkal
  • B.Tech. in Civil Engineering (2009-2013) – University of Kerala

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

  • Adjunct Faculty at Department of Data Sciences and Analytics, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore.

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

  • Water Resources Management
  • Environmental Economics
  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Operations Research
  • Natural Resources Management
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning

Journal Publication

  • Vineeth V & Parthasarathy Ramachandran (2022). Components of urban groundwater recharge in Bengaluru, India. Urban Water Journal.  doi:10.1080/1573062X.2022.2077221. Scopus ranked Q1 Journal

Conferences / MDPs Attended / FDPs Attended

  • Vineeth V. and Parthasarathy Ramachandran.: “REOF Analysis of Ground Water Level Variation in an Urban Hard Rock Aquifer System”, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-13982, 2021.
  • “Components of Ground Water Recharge in Bengaluru, India” Third Indian National Ground Water   Conference (INGWC 2020), February 2020, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, India.
  • “Groundwater modelling, a game theoretic perspective” at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, January 2018.
  • “Real option analysis” at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, January 2018.
  • “Impact of Domestic Water Pricing on Equity in Water Supply of Bengaluru City” at International Water Association (IWA), Water Loss Conference, Bengaluru, India, February 2016.

Workshops / Training Attended

  • Workshop on “Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Technologies (FOSS4G) for Urban Environment Applications’’ organised by Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, OSGEO-India and Energy and Wetlands Research Group , Centre for Ecological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ,Bangalore, India, April 2015.
  • Development of GIS Database of NITK Campus (Duration:3 months, May to July 2014) @ Department of Applied Mechanics & Hydraulics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.
  • TEQUIP – ll Sponsored Workshop on “Geoinformatics for Water and Coastal Engineering” at National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, September 2013.
  • Participated in a webinar on Groundwater- time series analysis organized by Australian Water School on 30th March 2022.
  • Attended the virtual global summit on Artificial Intelligence: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE 2020) organized by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India, October 5-9, 2022

Awards And Achievements

  • Awarded Japan Science & Technology (JST) fellowship (2018) under Sakura science student exchange programme held at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan
  • Awarded Ministry of Education, Senior Research Fellowship (SRF)
  • Awarded MHRD Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) (August 2016 – July 2018)
  • Secured top 3% in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014
  • Awarded MHRD GATE Scholarship (2013-2015)
  • Secured top 3% in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2013