Dr. R. Srinivas
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus (India)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota (USA)
Work experience
| Position | University | From |
| Postdoctoral Researcher and course instructor | University of Minnesota, USA | 2019-2020 |
| Assistant Professor | BITS Pilani, Pilani, India | 2015-2018 |
Education
| Degree | University | Year |
| Ph.D. (Environment and Water Resources) | BITS Pilani, Pilani | 2018 |
| M.E. Infrastructure Engineering and Management | BITS Pilani, Pilani | 2014 |
| M.Sc. Mathematics | BITS Pilani, Pilani | 2012 |
| B.E. (Hons.) Civil Engineering | BITS Pilani, Pilani | 2012 |
About the faculty
Dr. Rallapalli Srinivas is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani-Pilani Campus, Rajasthan (India). His research interests are watershed modeling and simulation, environmental hydrology, hydro-climatology, and fuzzy logic-based decision making in water resources. Before joining BITS, he worked at University of Minnesota (UMN), U.S.A and successfully completed a project namely developing a field-scale optimized watershed modeling framework. He has also taught courses like Assessment and Diagnosis of Impaired Waters and Hydrology and Water Quality at UMN. In addition, he was nominated by UMN Water Resources Center to represent the university at Michigan Data Science Symposium in 2019. For his research and teaching, he is actively collaborating with University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University and Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources.
Dr. Srinivas is a member of Soil and Water Conservation Society (USA), American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Institution of Engineers. He is also a reviewer of leading journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Science of the Total Environment, Water Environment Research and Environmental Development and Sustainability. He has been invited to deliver keynote lectures at University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, National Resources Conservation Services (USA), Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts (USA) and Incessant Ganga Conference, Bihar Government (India).
He has published over 30 papers in journals and conferences of international repute. He has more than six years of teaching and research experience in area of his expertise. Dr. Srinivas has also taught courses such as Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering, Water Resources Planning and Management, Multi-criteria Decision analysis in Engineering, Fundamentals of Systems Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment, and Surveying at BITS Pilani while he was serving as an Assistant Professor (II) from 2015-2018. He has also done significant work on water quality modeling and simulation of River Ganga during his Ph.D. titled as ‘Multi-criteria decision analysis and modeling for water quality management in Ganga river basin’.