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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 โ€œBest Paper Award at International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2018), Amity University, Uttar Pradeshย 

2018

5.

Awarded โ€œBest Paper Award of ICWRCOEโ€™15โ€ at International Conference on Water resources, coastal and Ocean Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

2015

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Research Scholar/Student achievements

S. No.

Research Scholar/Student name

Award and year

1.ย ย ย  ย 

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.ย ย ย  ย 

Ojasva Goyal (BE)

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Young Research Fellowship 2024โ€“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.ย ย ย  ย 

Ojasva Goyal and Bhuman Pandita (BE)

First prize, ๐—”๐—ฆ๐—–๐—˜ ๐—–๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ฆ๐—–-๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€**, ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป **๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐Ÿด, ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ, ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ต

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

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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)