Full Name
Idhaya Chandhiran Ilampooranan
Job Title
Assistant Professor
Company/Organization
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Speaker Bio
Dr. Idhaya is an Early Career Researcher working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Water Resources Development and Management at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, since December 2019. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2019 and his Master's in Hydrology and Water Resources at the Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, in 2013. He also has worked as a Consulting Engineer in Jacobs Solutions Inc. (India) for three years. He is experienced in handling eco-hydrological, biogeochemical, and agricultural models like SWAT, MIKE, Hec-HMS/RAS, DnDC, DAYCENT, CENTURY, DSSAT, etc., His research interests are greenhouse gas emissions modeling in agricultural and urban landscapes, nutrient dynamics (soil and water), Carbon & Nitrogen budgets in agricultural soils, ecohydrological modeling (crops, water quantity, and water quality), soil health and trade-offs between crop productivity and greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural landscapes, etc., He is a part of INDO-DUCTH collaborative research project which targets to rejuvenate the Hindon river water quality through remote-sensing, agricultural BMPs, ecohydrological models, and field experiments.
Idhaya Chandhiran Ilampooranan