Vineeth is pursuing a Ph.D. in Water resources management from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His area of research is Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Urban Groundwater Level using ML & Deep Learning models. He holds a master's Degree in Water Resources Engineering & Management from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK), and a bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kerala. His areas of research interest are water resources management, environmental economics, geospatial analysis, operations research, machine learning, and deep learning.

Education

• Ph.D. (Status: Thesis writing) in Water resources management – IISc Bangalore
• M.Tech. in Water resources engineering & management (2013-2015) – NIT Surathkal
• B.Tech. in Civil Engineering (2009-2013) – University of Kerala

Work Experience

• Adjunct Faculty at Department of Data Sciences and Analytics, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore.

Area of interest

• Water Resources Management
• Environmental Economics
• Geospatial Analysis
• Operations Research
• Natural Resources Management
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning

Journal Publication

• Vineeth V & Parthasarathy Ramachandran (2022). Components of urban groundwater recharge in Bengaluru, India. Urban Water Journal.  doi:10.1080/1573062X.2022.2077221. Scopus ranked Q1 Journal

Conferences Attended

• Vineeth V. and Parthasarathy Ramachandran.: “REOF Analysis of Ground Water Level Variation in an Urban Hard Rock Aquifer System”, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-13982, 2021.
• “Components of Ground Water Recharge in Bengaluru, India” Third Indian National Ground Water   Conference (INGWC 2020), February 2020, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, India.
• “Groundwater modelling, a game theoretic perspective” at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, January 2018.
• “Real option analysis” at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, January 2018.
• “Impact of Domestic Water Pricing on Equity in Water Supply of Bengaluru City” at International Water Association (IWA), Water Loss Conference, Bengaluru, India, February 2016.

Workshop Attended

• Workshop on “Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Technologies (FOSS4G) for Urban Environment Applications’’ organised by Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, OSGEO-India and Energy and Wetlands Research Group , Centre for Ecological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ,Bangalore, India, April 2015.
• Development of GIS Database of NITK Campus (Duration:3 months, May to July 2014) @ Department of Applied Mechanics & Hydraulics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.
• TEQUIP – ll Sponsored Workshop on “Geoinformatics for Water and Coastal Engineering” at National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, September 2013.
• Participated in a webinar on Groundwater- time series analysis organized by Australian Water School on 30th March 2022.
• Attended the virtual global summit on Artificial Intelligence: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE 2020) organized by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India, October 5-9, 2022

Awards and Achievements

• Awarded Japan Science & Technology (JST) fellowship (2018) under Sakura science student exchange programme held at Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan
• Awarded Ministry of Education, Senior Research Fellowship (SRF)
• Awarded MHRD Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) (August 2016 – July 2018)
• Secured top 3% in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014
• Awarded MHRD GATE Scholarship (2013-2015)
• Secured top 3% in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2013