Associate Professor
Area of specialization
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
Research Interest
- Restoration of hydrologic regimes using Low Impact Development techniques (LIDs)
- Drought development and propagation using hydrologic models and satellite data
- Landuse and Landcover change and its impact on hydrology of watersheds
- Large-scale watershed analysis using hydrologic modeling
- Geospatial analysis of watersheds using GIS and satellite data
Academic Experience
- Associate Professor, Saveetha Engineering College, India, from April 2019 to Present
- Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, IIT-Madras, India, from July 2017 to July 2019
- UGC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, From Jul 2016 to Jul 2017
- Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jan 2011 to Jun 2014
- Engineering Associate, Watershed Protection Department, City of Austin, USA, from Aug 2005 to Aug 2006
- Executive GIS Intern, South Dakota Department of Agriculture, USA, from Apr 2005 to Aug 2005
Publications
- Palanisamy, B., Narasimhan, B., Sabu, P., Raghavan, S., Winai W., Sopheap L., Rattykone.S., (2021). Studying Onset and Evolution of Agricultural Drought in Mekong River Basin through Hydrologic Modeling. Water, 13, 3622. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243622
- Palanisamy, B., Shubham, S, Narasimhan, B., (2020). An analysis of challenges and opportunities for Low Impact Development (LID) techniques in urbanizing catchments of coastal city of Chennai, India – A case study. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 25(10), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001995.
- Palanisamy, B., and Chui, T.F.M., (2015). Rehabilitation of concrete canals in urban catchments using low impact development techniques. Journal of Hydrology. 523: 309-319;
- Palanisamy, B., and Workman, S.R., (2014). Hydrologic modeling of flow through sinkholes located in streambeds of Cane Run River, Kentucky, USA. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE. 10.1061/ (ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001060, 04014066
- Palanisamy, B., and Workman, S.R., (2014). Observed hydrographs: on their ability to infer a time-invariant hydrological transfer function for flow prediction in ungauged basins. Hydrological Processes, 28: 401 - 413. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9583
- Palanisamy, B., and Chui, T.F.M., (2014). Studying the relationship between plant biomass and water use for improved parameterization of plant competition in ecohydrological modeling. Ecohydrology, 7: 843-857. Published online. DOI:10.1002/eco.1407
- Palanisamy, B., and Chui, T.F.M., (2013). Understanding wetland plant dynamics in response to water table changes through ecohydrological modeling. Ecohydrology, 6: 287-296. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1268
Research and Consultancy Works
- Water Resources Modelling Expert, From July 2020
- Project: “Development of comprehensive water security plan and rejenuvation of water bodies for SIPCOT industrial parks”, Centre for Urban, Building and Environment (CUBE), Centre of Excellence Unit of IIT-Madras and Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Value: INR 4 Lakhs
- Status: On-going
- Consultant, From October 2020
- Project: Development of comprehensive water security plan and rejenuvation of water bodies for SIPCOT industrial parks", Centre for Urban, Building and Environment (CUBE), Centre of Excellence Unit of IIT-Madras and Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Value: 2.40 Lakhs
- Status: Completed
- Principal Investigator, Mar 2004 – Feb 2005
- Project: Near real-time flood prediction using hourly NEXRAD rainfall data for the State of Texas, United States Geological Survey, USA
- Value: USD 5000
- Status: Completed
- Principal Investigator, Aug 2008 – Jul 2009
- Project: Modeling flow through sinkholes in Cane Run River, Kentucky, Karri
- Casner Environmental Sciences Fellowship, University of Kentucky
- Value: USD 1000
- Status: Completed
Technical Skills
- Hydrologic Models: SWAT, SWMM, VS2Di, Hydrus-1D, TOPMODEL
- GIS Software: ArcGIS, QGIS, SAGA-GIS
- Programming tools: MATLAB, VBA, FORTRAN
Training/Workshops/Webinars/Social Outreach Activities organized
- Convenor, “Agriculture Engineering Through a Lens”, Online Quiz program, June 16-20, 2020, Chennai, India
- Convenor, “Rainwater Harvesting: Need, Relevance and Importance”, May 2020. Host: Dr. Sekhar Raghavan, Director, Rain Centre, Chennai, India
- Convenor, “Urban Farms in Every Community: A Discussion”, May 2020. Host: Mr.Shammy Jacobs and Ms. Camille Fong, Jacob and Klooster Farms, Chennai, India
- Convenor, “Urban hydrologic modeling using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)”. Watershed Protection Department, City of Austin, USA, 2005
Reviewer:
- Urban Water Journal, Water, Journal of Environmental Management, Sustainability, Remote sensing, Hydrology, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
