Manabendra Saharia
Associate Professor Of Civil Engineering
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolManabendra Saharia is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi and leads the HydroSense Lab, developing computational tools and sensing systems to monitor and mitigate floods, droughts, and landslides. With 11 years of experience bridging academic research and operational practice, he brings a strong computational hydrology background informed by postdoctoral stints at NCAR and NASA Goddard. His work combines data-driven modeling, remote sensing, and field-scale experimentation—translating satellite and sensor data into practical hazard early-warning solutions. Trained with a PhD in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, he has consistently moved between U.S. research centers and Indian academia, giving him a global perspective on water-risk challenges. Notably, he blends rigorous theory with hands-on system building, making his lab’s outputs readily adoptable by practitioners and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Class X, Class X at St.Stephen's School,GuwahatiB.Tech Civil Engineering, B.Tech Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology SilcharPhD Water Resources Engineering, PhD Water Resources Engineering at University of OklahomaM.S. Water Resources Engineering, M.S. Water Resources Engineering at The University of Texas at ArlingtonHigher Secondary Science, Higher Secondary Science at Cotton College
Assamese, English, Hindi, Bengali, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
hugo-theme10
python10
journal10
netlify10
scrape10
rmarkdown10
page-builder10
scraper10
pdf10
rstudio10
os-agnostic10
ecosystem9
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forestry9
pandas9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hydrosenselab/hydrosenselab.github.io
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:11 PRs, 135 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 1 month
msaharia/assamtribunearchive
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Scrape daily images of Assam Tribune into a single PDF for archival
Contributions:209 commits, 207 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
pythonpdfscrapenewspapertribune
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