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Vasala Saicharan

Vasala Saicharan

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering (CE)

vasala.charan@sharda.ac.in

About

Vasala Saicharan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Sharda University. His research focuses on sustainable water resource management, leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Machine Learning to address critical challenges in hydrology, such as agricultural water footprints, groundwater modelling, and drought assessment. He specializes in high-resolution geospatial modelling and hydroinformatics, developing data-driven approaches to improve water resource management and sustainability.

Saicharan has actively contributed to the global research community through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at leading international conferences. His academic excellence is recognized through prestigious grants, including the SERB-ITS Travel Grant, AGU Travel Grant, IEEE GRSS Travel Grant, and IEEE GRSS Micro Grant. Beyond research, he plays a vital role in professional organizations such as IEEE GRSS, ISPRS SC, AGU-H3S, and SYAHI, contributing to conference organization, peer review, and mentorship of young researchers.

Professional Service & Leadership

  • Board of Directors, ISPRS SC(Feb 2025–Present)
  • Core Team Member, AGU-H3S (2023–2024)
  • Organizing Committee Member, InGARSS 2023 (IEEE GRSS India Flagship Conference)
  • Reviewer, InGARSS 2023 & 2024
  • Vice Chair, IEEE GRSS Student Chapter (NITK) (2021–2023)
  • Executive Committee Member, IEEE GRSS Bangalore Chapter (2021–2023)
  • Executive Member, SYAHI (2021–2022)

Professional Affiliations

  • Life Member, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
  • International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
  • International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
  • Society of Young Agriculture and Hydrology Scholars of India (SYAHI)

International Visits

  • USA – Sept 2022, Feb 2024
  • Italy – Sept 2023

Experience
  • 6  years 
Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Pursuing), National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India
  • M.Tech in Geo-Informatics & Surveying Technology, JNTU Hyderabad
  • B.Tech in Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad
Award & Recognition

  • SERB-ITS, DST, India Travel Grant (~$2500) – AGU Chapman Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2024)
  • IEEE GRSS Travel Grant – InGARSS 2023 Conference, IIIT Bangalore, India
  • IEEE GRSS Micro Grant ($500) – Professional Development (2022)
  • AGU Travel Grant ($3500) – Chapman Conference on Water Availability, AGU, USA (2022)
  • Ph.D. & M.Tech Fellowships (AICTE, New Delhi)
  • GATE – Civil Engineering (2017) & Geomatics (2022)

Research

  • Peer-Reviewed Journals: 2
  • Conference Papers & Proceedings: 11
  • Book Chapters: 2

Google Scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fa0S0s4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Journal

  1. Saicharan, V., & Shwetha HR (2023). A Comparison and Ranking Study of Monthly Average Rainfall Datasets with IMD Gridded Data in India. Sustainability, 15(7), 5758. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075758
  2. Charan, VS, B Naga Jyothi, Rajarshi Saha, Tushar Wankhede, IC Das, J Venkatesh. An Integrated Geohydrology and Geomorphology Based Subsurface Solid Modelling for Site Suitability of Artificial Groundwater Recharge: Bhalki Micro-watershed, Karnataka. J Geol Soc India 96, 458–466 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-020-1583-0

Conference Paper Publications/Presentations

  1. Abhishek Pawar, Saicharan, Vasala, Shwetha HR. “Long-Term Spatial and Temporal Climate Trends in Bandipur National Park: Insights from Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Wind Speed.” HYDRO 2024, CWPRS, Pune, India.
  2. Pradeep Kumar G, Saicharan, Vasala, Shwetha HR. “Enhancing Spatial Resolution of GPM Rainfall Data in Upper Cauvery Basin, India: Machine Learning Approach”, InGARSS 2024, NIT Goa.
  3. Vasala, S., & Shwetha HR. (2024). “Unveiling the Sustainability Quotient: Blue and Green Evapotranspiration Dynamics Analysis in the Upper Cauvery Basin.” (No. EGU24-1048). Copernicus Meetings (EGU-2024).
  4. Saicharan, Vasala, and Shwetha HR. “Effective Rainfall-Based Drought Assessment and Its Implications on Water Footprint Dynamics: A Case Study of Mysore District, India (2015-2019).” AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Sensors to Science to Society, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024.
  5. Chandan Kumar N M, Vasala Saicharan, and Shwetha H R. “Spatio-Temporal Assessment and Monitoring of Agricultural Drought in Karnataka, India.” HYDRO 2023, NIT, Warangal.
  6. V. Saicharan and H. R. Shwetha, "Quantification and Assessment of The Virtual Water Content of Rice Crop: A Case Study of Mysore District, India," 2023 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/InGARSS59135.2023.10490407 
  7. Vasala, Saicharan, and Shwetha Hassan Rangaswamy. “Green Water Scarcity Index Mapping for India Using Geospatial Data Products.” No. EGU23-737. Copernicus Meetings (EGU-2023). https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-737
  8. Saicharan, Vasala, and Shwetha HR “Effective Rainfall-A Proxy for Identifying Meteorological Drought.” AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2022.
  9. Saicharan, Vasala, B Vivekananda, and Shwetha HR. “Spatio-Temporal Variability of Effective Rainfall over the Indian region.” International Conference on Climate and Weather-related Extremes (ICCWE 2022). ICCWE/2022/8729.
  10. Vasala Sai Charan, B. B Kori, Rajarshi Saha and L. Ravi. “A Review on Ground water Recharging along Plastic Roads.” National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (NCRACE-2019), JNTU Hyderabad, Telangana. 2019.
  11. Vasala Sai Charan, M.V.S.S Giridhar, and L. Ravi. “Potential Sites for Rain Water Harvesting Structures Through Remote Sensing and GIS at NMREC College Rangareddy Telangana.” National Conference on Remote Sensing Applications (NCRSA-2018), JNTU Hyderabad, Telangana. 2018.

Book Chapters

  1. Chandankumar, N.M., Saicharan, V., Shwetha, H.R. (2025). Spatio-temporal Assessment and Monitoring of Agricultural Drought in Karnataka, India. In: Pandey, M., Jayakumar, K.V., Pal, M., Singh, V.P. (eds) Soft Computing and Geospatial Techniques in Water Resources Engineering. HYDRO 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 397. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7467-8_17
  2. Saicharan, V., & Rangaswamy, S. H. (2023). “A Comprehensive Analysis of Pixel-level Rainfall Datasets for the Indian Region: Identification of Optimal Rainfall Datasets”. Emerging Issues in Environment, Geography and Earth Science, 2023.”

Online Media

Featured Research: "M.Tech research work" highlighted in Pixel 2 People, the official newsletter of National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), January 2021. https://www.nrsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/pdf/Announcements/NRSC_P2P_Jan_2021_English.pdf

Certifications

 

Area of Interest

  • Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Hydroinformatics & Water Resource Management
  • Groundwater Modeling & Recharge Assessment
  • Agricultural Water Footprints & Sustainability
  • Drought Monitoring & Climate Change
  • Machine Learning Applications in Hydrology