Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Science and Engineering
Email: shailza[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in
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About Me: My research focuses on unraveling the physical mechanisms governing floods, droughts, and watershed-scale hydrological processes across diverse hydroclimatic regimes. I integrate large-sample analyses, hydroclimatic data analytics, and process-based hydrological approaches to advance the understanding of hydrological variability and extremes across river basins and water resources systems.
Research Interest: Large-Sample Hydrology, Hydrological Processes and Watershed Dynamics, Causative Classification of Floods and Droughts, Integrated Human-Water System Modeling, Compound Hydroclimatic Extremes, Water-Climate-Food Nexus
| Degree | Institute | Department | Specialization | Year | Thesis |
| B.Tech | NIT Hamirpur | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | 2011 | |
| M.Tech | IIT Delhi | Civil Engineering | Water Resources Engineering | 2013 | Bivariate Flood Frequency Analysis using Copulas |
| Ph.D | IISc Bangalore | Civil Engineering | Water Resources & Environmental Engineering | 2020 | Modeling the Dependence Structure of Hydroclimatic extremes |
Assistant Professor (April 2026 - Till Date) Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
Lead Hydrological Modeller (Mar 2026 - April 2026) Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC), Bangalore, India
Researcher (Sept 2024 - Mar 2026) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, India
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Nov 2020 - May 2024) Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
*Maternity Break (Dec 2021 to June 2022)
Hydraulic Engineer (July 2013 - July 2014) Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) India Water & Environment Pvt. Ltd
2019 - World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) & Tata Trusts Travel Grant to attend workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University, USA
2018 - American Geophysical Union (AGU) General Student Travel Grant to attend AGU fall meeting at Washington, DC, USA
2015 - One-time incentive by the Himachal Pradesh Govt. for excellent academic record under Mukhiya Mantri Protasahan Yojana
2006 - Career Turning Point Award by Indian Oil for 7th rank in Himachal Pradesh State Board Examination
