SARAT CHANDRA
- Scientist/Engineer - 'SC'
- Water Resources Group
- National Remote Sensing Centre
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Also, pursuing my PhD research on Indian Monsoon Droughts and regional impacts on groundwater at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Education
- M.Tech (2017-2019)
- Water Resources Engineering
- National Institute of technology Rourkela
- B.Tech (2012-2016)
- Civil Engineering
- MVGR College of Engineering Vizianagaram
Awards and Recognitions
- Runner up ($10000) of WAVE2WEB Hackathon 2022 with AQRITY
- PMRF Scholarship 2020 Indian Institute of Science
- Grantham Fellowship 2020 Indian Institute of Science
- Gold Medal for Best Postgraduate of the Institute 2019 at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela
- Gold Medal for Best Postgraduate of the Department 2019 at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela
- Prof. R.C Behara Memorial Award 2019 National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Work Experience
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (Since August 2025)
- National Remote Sensing Centre
- Hyderabad
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- Chegg Inc. (2016-2020)
- Subject Matter Expert (Freelance)
- Visakhapatnam
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- L&W Construction Pvt. Ltd. (2016-2016)
- Graduate Engineering Trainee
- Bengaluru
I generally work with..
- Python
- HTML/CSS/Javascript
- MATLAB
- LaTeX
- NCL, CDO
- GIS (QGIS, ArcGIS)
Research Publications & Conferences
- Increased Incidence of Localised Monsoon Droughts in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
- Sarat Chandra, Venugopal Vuruputur, Sekhar Muddu, AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington, D.C., USA
- Bundelkhand's Paradox: Two Droughts, One Monsoon
- C Sarat, V Venugopal, S Muddu, 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Pyeongchang, South Korea, 2024
- Characteristics of Large-Scale and Localized Droughts in the Gangetic Plains
- Chamarthi Sarat Chandra, Venugopal Vuruputur, Sekhar Muddu, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
- Some Unique Features of Northern Indo-Gangetic Plain Droughts
- Chamarthi Sarat Chandra, Venugopal Vuruputur, Sekhar Muddu, AGU Fall Meeting 2022 (Online)
- Depth-Averaged Velocity Distribution in a Meandering Compound Channel Using Calibrating Coefficients
- A Handique, A Pradhan, CS Chandra, KK Khatua - Chapter 10, Book : River Hydraulics, 2022 - Springer Nature
- Machine Learning Solutions for Reservoir Modelling
- Walter Samuel, Sagar Garg, Saumya Srivastava, Chamarthi Sarat Chandra, Jayatu Bhuyan, Manash Bhuyan, Indirapriyadarsini Jagiripu, AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (Online)