Dr. Venkatraman Srinivasan
First floor, NAC -II Building
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
Earned Degrees
PhD, Civil Engineering, 2013
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Dissertation title: Optimality and resilience in patterns of carbon allocation and growth in vegetation under acclimation response to climate change
(Guide: Dr. Praveen Kumar )
MS, Civil Engineering, 2007
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Dissertation title: Analytical solutions for sequentially coupled multi-species reactive transport problems
(Guide: Dr. Prabhakar Clement, now at Alabama)
BTech, Civil Engineering, 2004
IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Awards and Honours
Editorial advisory board, in silico Plants Journal, IL, USA, 2019
CEE Alumni assistantship for teaching excellence, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, IL, USA, 2012
Outstanding Master’s thesis in environmental engineering and science, Montgomery-Watson-Harza Consulting Engineers/AEESP Award, AL, USA, 2008
CH2M Hill Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, AL, USA, 2007
Outstanding Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, AL, USA, 2007
Research Areas
| Groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling |
| Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers |
| Food and water security under climate change |
| Eco-hydrological modeling and experiments |
Professional Experiences
| 2018 – Present | : | Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| 2017 – 2018 | : | Research scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, U.S.A |
| 2013 – 2017 | : | Post doctoral research associate, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA |
| 2007 – 2013 | : | Graduate research assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana , Urbana Champaign, IL, USA |
| 2004 – 2007 | : | Graduate research assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auburn University , Auburn, AL, USA |