IITKGP

Rajib Maity

Professor

Civil Engineering

+91-3222-283442

rajib@civil.iitkgp.ac.in

For details please visit my homepage at http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~rajibmaity/ |

Responsibilities

  • Chairperson, Career Development Centre

Research Areas

  • Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Eng
  • Remote Sensing Applications
  • Analysis of Hydrologic Extremes
  • AI/ML Applications in Hydroclimatology
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
I work in the broad research area of Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Engineering.

Specific Research Interests include:
i) Hydroclimatic Teleconnection: Large Scale Coupled Circulation Patterns and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR), Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Approaches.

ii) Modelling for Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Effect of climate change on hydrology and water resources, Hydrological Systems in a Changing Environment, Bias correction and downscaling.

iii) Analysis of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Spatio-temporal change in rainfall extremes, Analysis and hydroclimatic modeling of droughts, Probable Maximum Precipitation.

iv) Sea Level Rise: Hydroclimatic modelling of local Sea Level Rise, Coastal vulnerability and future impacts.

v) Statistical Methods: Time series analysis and forecasting, Copula theory in hydroclimatic analysis, Graphical Modelling, Probabilistic prediction and uncertainty quantification.

vi) Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology: Application of remote sensing for soil moisture assessment.

vii) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Optimizer, Deep Learning (DL) etc. in hydroclimatology
  • Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Hydroclimatology (2nd Edition) Maity R. By 1-436 (2022)
  • Increase in Probable Maximum Precipitation in a Changing Climate over India Sarkar S., Maity R. By Journal of Hydrology 585:124806 - (2020)
  • Assessment of basin-wise future agricultural drought status across india under changing climate Suman M., Maity R. By Journal of Water and Climate Change 12 2400-2421 (2021)
  • Global climate shift in 1970s causes a significant worldwide increase in precipitation extremes Sarkar S., Maity R. By Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 11:11574 - (2021)
  • Long-term simulation of daily rainfall across India: Performance of cumulus convection schemes in regional climate model during southwest and northeast monsoon Dutta R., Sunanda N., Patra A., Maity R. By Atmospheric Research 259 - (2021)
  • Potential of deep learning in drought assessment by extracting information from hydrometeorological precursors Maity R., Khan M.I., Sarkar S., Dutta R., Maity S.S., Pal M., Chanda K. By Journal of Water and Climate Change 12 2774-2796 (2021)
  • Revealing alarming changes in spatial coverage of joint hot and wet extremes across India Dash S., Maity R. By Scientific Reports 11 - (2021)
  • Hybrid deep learning approach for multi-step-ahead daily rainfall prediction using GCM simulations Khan M., Maity R. By IEEE Access 8 52774-52784 (2020)

Principal Investigator

  • Concept of temporal networks in hydroclimatic modelling in a changing climate: Application to streamflow and drought Ministry of Earth Sciences
  • Improvement of Temporal Resolution (weekly to daily) of SAR based High Spatial Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Estimates ISRO, INDIA
  • Improvement of Temporal Resolution (~weekly to daily) of SAR based High Spatial Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Estimates SAC, AHMEDABAD
  • Sensor-based soil moisture monitoring via Mobile App: Development of an AI-based intelligent system for marginal farmers IIT KHARAGPUR AI4ICPS I HUB FOUNDATION
  • Study of long-Term Climate Effects on Future Projections of Solar and Wind Resources ADANI GREEN ENERGY LIMITED

Ph. D. Students

Aman Srivastava

Area of Research: Water management under extreme climate events

Ashesh Rudra Paul

Area of Research: Impact of climate extremes on water resources

Gorantla Indraja

Area of Research: Climate change and hydrological extremes

Mohd Imran Khan

Area of Research: Hydrologic extremes and climate change

Subharthi Sarkar

Area of Research: Hydroclimatic analysis of extreme phenomena

Subhasmita Dash

Area of Research: Analysis and modelling of hydroclimatic extremes

Subhra Sekhar Maity

Area of Research: Climate change impacts on hydrology

Triveni Majhi

Area of Research: Climate change impact on water resources