Manabendra Saharia (Manab)                     

Curriculum Vitae (Updated: May 2017)

 

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Education 

• PhD, University of Oklahoma, May 2017
• M.S. in Water Resources Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, 2013
• B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, 2011

Research Interests

Flash Flood Forecasting, Remote Sensing, Precipitation, Neural Networks.

Journal Publications

1. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, P.E., Vergara, H., Gourley, J.J., Hong, Y., Giroud, M. (2016). “Mapping Flash Flood Severity in the United States”. Journal of Hydrometeorology http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0082.1
2. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, P.E., Vergara, H., Gourley, J.J., Hong, Y., (2016). ”Characterization of Floods in the United States”. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169417301476
3. Sunghee Kim, Sadeghi1, H., Limon, R.A., Saharia, M., Seo, D.J., Philpott, A., Bell, F., Brown, J., He, K., (2016) “Ensemble streamflow forecasting using short- and medium-range precipitation forecasts for the Upper Trinity River Basin in North Texas via the Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS)”, [Under review, Weather and Forecasting]
4. Li, W., Liu, C., Hong, Y., Zhang, X., Wan, Z., Saharia, M., Sun, W., Yao, D., Chen, W., Chen, S., others, 2016. A public Cloud-based China’s Landslide Inventory Database (CsLID): development, zone, and spatiotemporal analysis for significant historical events, 1949-2011. Journal of Mountain Science 13, 1275–1285.
5. Li, W., Liu, C., Hong, Y., Saharia, M., Sun, W., Yao, D., Chen, W., 2016. Rainstorm-induced shallow landslides process and evaluation–a case study from three hot spots, China. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 1–11.
6. Zhang, Y., Hong, Y., Wang, X., Gourley, J.J., Xue, X., Saharia, M., Ni, G., Wang, G., Huang, Y., Chen, S., others, 2014. Hydrometeorological Analysis and Remote Sensing of Extremes: Was the July 2012 Beijing Flood Event Detectable and Predictable by Global Satellite Observing and Global Weather Modeling Systems? Journal of Hydrometeorology.
7. Shen, Y., Xiong, A., Hong, Y., Yu, J., Pan, Y., Chen, Z., & Saharia, M. (2014). Uncertainty analysis of five satellite-based precipitation products and evaluation of three optimally merged multi-algorithm products over the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1-16.
8. Zhang, Y., Hong, Y., Wang, X., Gourley, J. J., Xue, X., Saharia, M., & Tang, G. (2014). Hydrometeorological Analysis and Remote Sensing of Extremes: Was the July 2012 Beijing Flood Event Detectable and Predictable by Global Satellite Observing and Global Weather Modeling Systems?. Journal of Hydrometeorology.
9. Roy, P., Choudhury, PS., Saharia, M., (2014) ,”River Reaches Flood Flow Prediction using PRNN model”, International Journal of Civil, Structural, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Research and Development
10. Kumar, V., Jain, Sharad, K. and Saharia, M., (2012). “Analysis of Rainfall and Temperature trends in North-East India”, International Journal of Climatology, Wiley Publications.
11. Saharia, M. and Bhattacharjya, R. K. (2012). “Geomorphology-based Time-Lagged Recurrent Neural Networks for Runoff Forecasting”, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer,

Conference Publications

1. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2016) “Accounting for Rainfall Spatial Variability in Prediction of Flash Floods”, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 12-16, San Francisco, California. [Selected for Oral presentation]
   
2. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2016) “Accounting for Rainfall
   Spatial Variability in Prediction of Flash Floods”, 9th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology,
   Oct 10, Turkey. [Oral]
3. Hong,Y., Gourley, JJ., Saharia, M., Flamig, Z., Clark, R., Zhang, K., Muthike, Denus., Hasan, Emad.,
   Cappelaere, P., Frye, S., Handy, M., Nyaga, J. (2016) “Forecasting and Communicating Water-Related
   Disasters in Africa”, SAGE, Nepal. [Poster]
4. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2016) “Mapping the flashiest regions of the United States”, Research and Creativity Day, Mar 4 University of Oklahoma. [Best Oral Presentation award]
5. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2015) Mapping Flash Flood Severity in the United States”, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 14-18, San Francisco, California. [Oral]
6. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2015) Where are the flashiest basins of the United States?”, Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Oct 7-11, Norman, Oklahoma. [Poster] [Best Poster Award]
7. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2015) Characterization and Prediction of Flash Flood Severity in the United States”, 2015 International Symposium on EarthScience Challenges, Sep 20-23, Norman, Oklahoma. [Oral]
8. Saharia, M., Kirstetter, PE, Gourley, JJ., Vergara, H. and Hong, Y. (2014) Characterization of Floods in the United States, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 15-19, San Francisco, California. [Poster]
9. Saharia, M., Seo., Dong-Jun, Corby, R. and He, Kevin (2013) “Short-range Ensemble Streamflow Forecasting of the Upper Trinity River – Evaluation via hind-casting experiments”, AGU Meeting of the Americas, May 14-17, Cancun, Mexico.
10. Saharia, M., Seo., Dong-Jun, Corby, R. and He, Kevin (2013) “Ensemble Streamflow Forecasting of the Upper Trinity River”, Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) symposium, UTA, March 27, 2013, Arlington, Texas.
11. Saharia, M., Bhattacharjya, R. K. and Satish, M. (2011). “Catchment Runoff Forecasting using Time Lagged Recurrent Neural Networks”.4th ASCE-EWRI International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment(IPWE 2011), January 4-6, National University of Singapore.
12. Roy, P., Choudhury, P. and Saharia, M. (2011). “River Reaches Flood Flow Prediction using TLRN models”. 4th ASCE-EWRI International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2011), January 4-6, National University of Singapore.
13. Saharia, M. and Bhattacharjya. R. K. (2011). “Comparison of ANN-based Runoff-prediction Models Trained by Eight Different Learning Algorithms”.4th ASCE-EWRI International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2011), January 4-6, National University of Singapore.
14. Roy, P., Choudhury, P. and Saharia, M. (2010). “Dynamic ANN modeling for Flood Forecasting in a river network”. International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing (ICMOC 2010),American Institute of Physics Conf. Proc., NIT Durgapur, India.

Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, HyDROS Group, University of Oklahoma, From Aug 2013.
• Graduate Research Assistant, HWRL, UT Arlington, Aug 2011 – July 2013.
• Summer Research Intern, IIT Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2010.
• Winter Trainee, IIT Guwahati,2009-10.
• Summer Trainee, IIT Guwahati, 2009.

Addendum

• Past and Present Advisors:
  • Dr. Yang Hong, PhD Advisor, University of Oklahoma
  • Dr. J.J. Gourley, PhD Advisor, University of Oklahoma
  • Dr. Dong-Jun Seo, MS Advisor, UT Arlington.
  • Prof. Sharad K. Jain, Internship Advisor, IIT Roorkee, India.
  • Dr. Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya, Internship Advisor, IIT Guwahati, India.
  • Dr. P.S. Choudhury, B.Tech Project Guide, NIT Silchar.
  • Dr. P. Roy, B.Tech Project Guide, NIT Silchar.

Contact Information

Email: msaharia@ou.edu Phone: 940.595.5219 Office: National Weather Center 4630, 120 David L. Boren Blvd., Norman, OK, 73072, USA

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