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Dr. Srinivas Rallapalli

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus (India)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota (USA)

AI and remote sensing applications, Hydroclimatology and Environmental Hydrology, Smart agricultural planning and water management, Water Resources Engineering & Management, Watershed Modeling
Faculty Division-I,
Department of Civil Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Achievements

Awards and Honours

S.No.

Honors/Award

Year

1.

Director award, Best paper in highest impact factor journal, BITS Pilani

2025

2.

Paper nominated for Frontiers Planet Prize

2025

2.

Invited as the only researcher from University of Minnesota at Michigan Data Science Symposium, University of Michigan, USA

2019

3.

Recipient of NVIDIA Academic GPU grant for applying deep learning in Hydrology

2018

4.

Awarded “Best Paper Award at International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2018), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh 

2018

5.

Awarded “Best Paper Award of ICWRCOE’15” at International Conference on Water resources, coastal and Ocean Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

2015

 

Research Scholar/Student achievements

S. No.

Research Scholar/Student name

Award and year

1.     

Meeniga Venkateshwarlu (Research Scholar)

Second Prize at the prestigious 17th Agricultural Science Congress (2025)

Poster title: Macro-micro Nutrients Based Soil Fertility Zone Mapping and Assessment Using Fuzzy Logic and Geospatial Analysis

2.     

Ojasva Goyal (BE)

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Young Research Fellowship 2024–25 for the project titled: Deep Learning and UAV-Based System for Automated Wheat Rust Detection and Smart Agricultural Decision-Making, TERRE Policy centre

3.     

Ojasva Goyal and Bhuman Pandita (BE)

First prize, 𝗔𝗦𝗖𝗘 𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗖-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀**, 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻 **𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗵

Research: AI-Powered UAV Crop Disease Diagnostics for Smart Cities of Tomorrow

 

International Collaborations

  • University of Minnesota, USA
  • Iowa State University, USA
  • University of Wisconsin, USA
  • Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR), USA

Other accomplishments

  1. Instrumental in establishing MoU between BITS Pilani and University of Minnesota. Have been actively working with University of Minnesota on several academic and research activities.
  2. Organized (Lead coordinator) Global meet on Computational Modeling and Simulation: Recent Innovations, Challenges and Perspectives (http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/GlobalMeet/).

Date: Oct 16-Nov 7, 2020. Selected papers were published in Springer book: Advances in Computational Modeling and Simulation.(2022). (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-7857-8)