Dr. Monomoy Goswami
Dr. Monomoy Goswami Professor Department of Civil Engineering (Faculty in-charge of Engineering Cell)
QUALIFICATIONS PhD in Engineering Hydrology (National University of Ireland, Galway, IRELAND)
M.Sc in Hydrology (National University of Ireland, IRELAND)
Bachelor of Civil Engineering (REC, now, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, INDIA)

Vidwan Score (as on November 2022): 8.4/10

Included in the list of the prestigious ‘World Scientist and University Rankings 2023’ (Country rank: 28789) by AD Scientific Index

Google Scholar (as on November 2022) h-index: 9; i10-index: 8; Citations: 572
AREA OF INTERESTS

·         Water Resources System Planning and Management

·         Water resources engineering

·         River basin, and irrigation canal system studies for multi-purpose and hydro power projects

·         Hydraulic analysis and modeling

·         Hydrometeorolgy and Hydrological Sciences

·         Water-availability, flood and drought studies

·         Hydro power project planning & design

·         Financials and economic evaluation

·         Project costing

·         Project management

·         Mathematical conceptual and data-driven modeling, and Optimization

·         Engineering education and research

CONTACT: Phone: Email: m.goswami@cit.ac.in
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ACHIEVMENTS:

HIGHLY ACCDLAIMED WORKS

1)  Devised a methodology for estimation of “design flood hydrograph” that is specified by the Irish Govt. Office of Public Works (OPW) for use by practicing engineers for the planning and design of engineering projects all over the Republic of Ireland [1].  

This work is credited to me as I worked as the Principal Researcher of “Hydrograph Width Analysis” Project administered by the Environmental Change Institute of the National University of Ireland Galway, IRELAND, and sponsored by OPW under the OPW’s Flood Studies Update (FSU) programme during 2006-08. 

2)   Developed the “Galway real-time river Flow Forecasting System” (GFFS), later renamed as the “Galway Flow Modelling and Forecasting System” (GFMFS), a versatile software package incorporating a large number of river flow modelling and forecasting models that has been extensively used in various countries worldwide by practicing engineers and researchers in the fields of water resources engineering and management, hydrological sciences, environmental and climate-change impact analyses, hydropower project planning etc..  I developed this package as a component of a research project on flood forecasting funded by the “Millennium Research Fund” of the National University of Galway, Ireland during 2000-02[2].

 

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1)    Worked on consultancy assignments of three hydropower projects, namely Buseruka, Waki and Nyagak III, in Uganda; and three hydropower projects, namely Lower Manang Marsyangdi, Trishuli Galchhi and Madi Siti, in Nepal; a dam safety review project (Obajana dam) in Nigeria, and a Dam Development Plan in the Nzoia River Basin in Kenya, besides working in projects located in varying physiographical settings in 13 states of India.

2)   A significant part of the professional career was also spent in Ireland while undertaking higher studies at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, Ireland and while employed in the NUI in Galway followed by the Fehily Timoney & Company in Dublin in Ireland. 

3)   Attended and presented technical papers in Conferences in the USA, Portugal, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Ireland besides India.

4)   During higher studies in Ireland, worked in two research-based consultancy projects at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. 

[2] Reference in Chapter 12: “The Galway Real-time River Flow Forecasting System (GFFS)” (page 215-234) authored by K.M. O’Connor in the Book titled “River Basin Modelling for Flood Risk Management” edited by Knight, D.W. and Shamseldin, A.Y., published bin 2006 y Taylor & Francis/Balkema, the Netherlands.  ISBN: 0 415 38344 7

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF DR. MONOMOY GOSWAMI (As on November 2022)

A.        INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:

1)      Monomoy Goswami, 2020. Generating design flood hydrographs by parameterizing the characteristic flood hydrograph at a site using only flow data. Hydrological Sciences Journal, Special issue: Hydrological data: opportunities and barriers.  Published online: 27 Nov 2020, 1-19.  DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2020.1843656 (Print ISSN: 0262-6667 Online ISSN: 2150-3435) 3.787 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 4.7 CiteScore.  SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

2)      Vaze, J, Chiew, FHS, Perraud, J-M, Viney, N, Post, D, Teng, J, Wang, B, Lerat, J, Goswami, M., 2011.  Rainfall-Runoff Modelling across Southeast Australia:  Datasets, Models and Results. Australasian Journal of Water Resources (earlier, Australian Journal of Water Resources).  Vol. 14(2), pp 101-116. Doi: 10.1080/13241583.2011.11465379. 2.8 CiteScore; 1.113 SNIP; 0.617 SJR.  ESCI (Web of Science) – indexed.

3)      Monomoy Goswami & Kieran M. O’Connor, 2010. A ‘monster’ that made the SMAR conceptual model ‘right for the wrong reasons’.  Hydrological Sciences Journal Special issue: Court of Miracles in Hydrology, vol. 55(6), pp 913-927. Doi: 10.1080/02626667.2010.505170 Print ISSN: 0262-6667 Online ISSN: 2150-3435.  3.787 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 4.7 CiteScore.  SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

4)      Monomoy Goswami and Kieran Michael O’Connor, 2007. Comparative assessment of six automatic optimization techniques for calibration of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model.  Hydrological Sciences Journal Special issue: Hydroinformatics, vol. 52, no. 3, pp 432-449. Doi: 10.1623/hysj.52.3.432. 3.787 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 4.7 CiteScore.  SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

5)      M. Goswami, K.M. O’Connor, K.P. Bhattarai, 2007.  Development of regionalisation procedures using a multi-model approach for flow simulation in an ungauged catchment.  Journal of Hydrology, Volume 333, Issues 2-4, 15 February 2007, Pages 517-531. Doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.018.  ISSN: 0022-1694.  5.722 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 7.8 CiteScore. SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

6)      Monomoy Goswami, Kieran M. O’Connor, 2007. Real-time flow forecasting in the absence of quantitative precipitation forecasts: a multi-model approach. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 334, Issues 1-2, 20 February 2007, Pages 125-140. Doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.10.002. ISSN: 0022-1694.  5.722 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 7.8 CiteScore. SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

7)      M. Goswami, K.M. O’Connor, K.P. Bhattarai, and A.Y. Shamseldin, 2005.  Assessing the performance of eight real-time updating models and procedures for the Brosna River.  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS Special Issue on “Advances in Flood Forecasting”) Journal, Vol. 9, number 4, pp. 394-411. Doi: 10.5194/hess-9-394-2005.  url: https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/9/394/2005/hess-9-394-2005.pdf. (Print ISSN: 1027-5606 Online ISSN: 1607-7938)  5.748 Impact Factor (Clarivate); 9.3 CiteScore.  SCIE (Web of Science) – indexed.

B.         ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:

1)      Goswami, I., Goswami, M., 2022. Combined Use of Selected UX Research Techniques and Creation of User Persona for Design and Evaluation of Sustainable e-Commerce Apps—A Case Study. In: Chakrabarti, D., Karmakar, S., Salve, U.R. (eds) Ergonomics for Design and Innovation. HWWE 2017. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 391. pp 1481–1493, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_127.

2)      Goswami, Monomoy and Choudhury, Aparajit., 2006.  Hydro Power Potential of the River Systems in the North East:  Prospects, Progress and Problems.  In Compendium: Rivers and Riverine Landscape in North East India.  Eds. Sengupta, S., Sinha, K.R., Das, S., Rani, W.B. and Purakayastha, S.  Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, India. 1st Ed., ISBN 81-8069-276-0. (Rivers and Riverine Landscape in North East India (2006 edition) | Open Library), pp. 35-71

3)      O’Connor, K.M., Goswami, M., Bhattarai, K.P., and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2004.  A comparison of the lead-time discharge forecasts of the ‘Perfect’ and ‘Naïve-AR’ quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) input scenarios, to asses the value of having good QPFs.  In ‘Hydrological Risk; Recent advances in peak river flow modelling, prediction and real-time forecasting – Assessment of impacts of land use and climate change’. Eds. Brath, A., Montanari, A. and Toth, E., CNR-GNDCI Publ. No. 2858,  ISBN 88-7740-378-0, Editoriale Bios, Via A. Rendano, 25-87040 Castrolibero (CS), Italy, (Hydrological Risk Recent advances in peak river flow modelling | Semantic Scholar) pp. 187-217.

C.         INTRENATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

1)      Avijit Paul, Monomoy Goswami and Deep Jyoti Baishya, 2022.  Spatial Downscaling of CMIP6 GCM Outputs of Precipitation for Climate Scenario Analysis of Lower Assam Region, India.  Book of ‘Theme concepts and Abstracts’ of the International Conference on Climate and Weather-Related Extremes – New Dimensions, Challenges and Solutions: ICCWE 2022 organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and held at Roorkee, India during September 19-20, 2022.  Paper ID: ICCWE/2022/1268, pp. 26.

2)      Monomoy Goswami and Ankita Ghosh, 2022.  Intensity-Duration-Frequency Characterization of Rainfall for a Selected Valley Region of Northeast India.  Book of ‘Theme concepts and Abstracts’ of the International Conference on Climate and Weather-Related Extremes – New Dimensions, Challenges and Solutions: ICCWE 2022 organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and held at Roorkee, India during September 19-20, 2022.  Paper ID: ICCWE/2022/1097, pp. 50.

3)      Ishika Goswami and Monomoy Goswami, 2021.  Combined use of selected UX research techniques and creation of user persona for design and evaluation of sustainable e-commerce Apps ¾ a case study.  Presented at 19th International Conference on ‘Humanizing Work and Work Environment’ held at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India during December 01-03, 2021.  Published in a proceedings book volume “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” by Springer. url: acceaccephttps://event.iitg.ac.in//hwwe2021/img/accepted.pdfted.pdf (iitg.ac.in)pted.pdf (iitg.ac.in) . Book of Abstracts published, Page 142.

4)      Monomoy Goswami and Dolly Rabha, 2020.  Trend analysis of ground-water levels and rainfall to assess sustainability of groundwater in Kamrup Metropolitan District of Assam in northeast India.  Proceedings of the biennial International Conference known as Roorkee Water Conclave jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee and held at Roorkee, India during February 26-28, 2020 (Softcopy of paper available at https://www.iitr.ac.in/rwc2020/download.html).

5)      Monomoy Goswami, 2019.  Reservoirs for Harnessing Enormous Hydropower Potential of the Brahmaputra Basin in North-East India – Need for Strategic, Holistic and Sustainability Considerations.  Oral presentation made at HydroVision International 2019 Conference held at Portland, Oregon, USA during July 23-25, 2019 (Softcopy of presentation handout available at https://www.hydroevent.com/).

6)      Monomoy Goswami, Vivek Varma, Santosh M. Dhar, Bitupan Swargiary and Rosey Boro, 2018.  A novel approach of constructing ferrocement wall for cost-effective housing.  Proceedings of COSVARD 2018 – 1st International Conference on Smart Villages and Rural Development organized by the University of Melbourne, Australia and held at Guwahati, India during December 12-14, 2018, pp 35-46.

7)      Monomoy Goswami, 2018. Impact of inefficient hydraulic design of water conductor system on hydroelectric energy generation with particular reference to Gumti hydropower plant in Tripura.  Proceedings of the International Conference on “Clean Technologies and Sustainable Development – 2018”, held during February 23-24, 2018 at NITTTR Chandigarh, India, pp. 47-55.

8)      Monomoy Goswami and Kieran Michael O’Connor, 2007.  Choice of an appropriate objective function for optimisation and of performance evaluation criteria in hydrological modelling. Proceedings of the XXIV General Assembly, 2-13 July, 2007 held at Perugia, Italy.

9)    Monomoy Goswami and Kieran M. O’Connor, 2007. Application of Artificial Neural Networks for river flow simulation in three French catchments.  Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (PIAHS) on “Water in Celtic Countries: Quantity, Quality and Climate Variability”, No. 310, pp. 267-276.  ISBN Number: 978-1-901502-88-6. Editors: Ferreira, J. P. L. and Vieira, J. M. P. url: https://iahs.info/uploads/dms/13810.35-267-276-22-IC310-Goswami---O-Connor.pdf. ISSN: 2199-8981; E-ISSN: 2199-899X. 0.9 CiteScore; 0.504 SNIP; 0.296 SJR. Scopus – indexed.

(Presented in the Fourth Inter Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of water resources on: Water in Celtic Countries: Quantity, Quality and Climate Variability, held in Guimarães, Portugal during July 11-14, 2005)

10)   Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2006.  Flow simulation in an ungauged basin:  an alternative approach to parameterisation of a conceptual model using regional data.  Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (PIAHS) on “Large Sample Basin Experiments for Hydrological Model Parameterization:  Results of the Model Parameter Experiment ¾ MOPEX”, No. 307, pp. 149-158. ISBN Number: 978-1-901502-73-2. Editors: Andréassian, V., Hall, A., Chahinian, N. and Schaake, J.  url: https://iahs.info/uploads/dms/13608.14-149-158-32-GOSWAMI-OCONNOR.pdf.  ISSN: 2199-8981; E-ISSN: 2199-899X. 0.9 CiteScore; 0.504 SNIP; 0.296 SJR. Scopus – indexed.

11)   Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2006.  Application of data-driven ANN and k-NN techniques for lead-time flow forecasting for two Irish catchments.  Paper presented at the Session of ‘Hydroinformatics: Computational intelligence and technological developments in water science applications’ of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly held in Vienna, Austria during April 2-7, 2006.  The abstract available in the CD: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 8, 2006, ISSN: 1029-7006, published by the EGU.

12)   Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2005.  Application of a conceptual rainfall-runoff simulation model to three European catchments characterised by non-conservative system behaviour.  The proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrological perspectives for sustainable development, held in Roorkee, India, during February 23-25, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 117-130.

13)   Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2004.  Continuous Rainfall-Runoff Modelling of the Tenga River in the Kameng Basin of Arunachal Pradesh, India.  The proceedings of the International Conference on “Large Dams and Hydropower Development” held in New Delhi, India during May 26-28, 2004, Chap III, pp. 21-35.

14)   O’Connor, K.M., Goswami, M,, Bhattarai, K.P. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2003.  A comparison of the lead-time discharge forecasts of the ‘Perfect’ and ‘Naïve-AR ’ Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) Input Scenarios, to assess the value of having good QPFs.  The proceedings of the ESF LESC Exploratory Workshop on ‘Hydrological Risk: recent advances in peak river flow modelling, prediction and real-time forecasting. Assessment of the impacts of land-use and climate changes’ held at Bologna, Italy, during October 24-25, 2003.

15)   Goswami, M, O’Connor, K.M., Bhattarai, K.P. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2003.  Real-time river flow forecasting for the Brosna catchment in Ireland using eight updating models.  The proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Flood Forecasting in Europe, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, held during March 3-5, 2003.

16)   Goswami, M., O’Connor, K.M. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2002.  Structures and Performances of Five Rainfall-Runoff Models for Continuous River-Flow Simulation.  The proceedings of the 1st Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, held in Lugano, Switzerland during June 24-27, 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 476-481.

17)   Goswami, M., O’Connor, K.M.  and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2002.  Rainfall-runoff modelling of two Irish catchments (one Karstic and one non-Karstic).  The proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources, ‘Celtic Water in European Framework’, held at Galway, Ireland during July 8-10, 2002, pp 151-164.

18)   Goswami, M., O’Connor, K.M. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2002.  Comparative performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff models, six of black-box type and one of conceptual type from the Galway Flow Forecasting System (GFFS) Package, applied on two Irish catchments.  The proceedings of the Conference of the XXVII General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, held in Nice, France during April 21-26, 2002.

19)   Bhattarai, K.P., Goswami, M., O’Connor, KM., 2002.  An introduction to the Galway River Flow Forecasting System (GFFS).  The proceedings of the 3rd Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources, ‘Celtic Water in European Framework’, held at Galway, Ireland during July 8-10, 2002, pp 336.

20)   O’Connor, K.M, Goswami, M., Liang, G.C., Kachroo, R.K. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2001.  The development of the ‘Galway Real-Time River Flow Forecasting System (GFFS).  The proceedings of the 19th European Regional Conference of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage on ‘Sustainable Use of Land and Water’, held in Brno and Prague, Czech Republic during June 4 – 8, 2001.

21)   Lihua Xiong, Kieran M. O’Connor and Monomoy Goswami, 2001.  The application of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in flood forecasting on a karstic catchment.  Proceedings of the 29th IAHR (International Association of Hydraulic Research) World Congress “21st Century: The New Era For Hydraulic Research" (Theme C: Forecasting and Mitigation of Water-related Disasters) held in Beijing, China during September 17-21, 2001, pp. 29-35, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing.  (Print ISSN: 2521-7119 Online ISSN: 2521-716X)  http://www.gbv.de/dms/tib-ub-hannover/349296960.pdf

D.        NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

1)      Goswami, M. and Chanda, K., 2018.  Role of storage reservoirs in sustainable water resources management in India.  Paper presented at the “on Applied Sciences, Sustainable and Evolving Technologies (ASSET) 2018 held in Kokrajhar, Assam, India during March 9-11, 2018 (Book of Abstracts published).

2)      Goswami, M., 2010.  Use of Web Resources in Project Hydrology ¾ A case study from Ireland.  Proceedings of the “National Conference on Current Trends of Research & Development in Civil and Environmental Engineering:  An Indian Perspective” held in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad, Gujarat, India during January 21-22, 2010, pp. 41 and Conference CD.

E.         LIST OF TECHNICAL RESEARCH REPORT OF DR. MONOMOY GOSWAMI

1)      Kieran M. O’Connor, Monomoy Goswami and Duncan Faulkner, 2014.  Flood Studies Update, Technical Research Report, volume III: Hydrograph Analysis.  Published by Office of Public Works, Government of Ireland, page 200. url: https://opw.hydronet.com/data/files/Technical%20Research%20Report%20-%20Volume%20III%20-%20Hydrograph%20Analysis%281%29.pdf

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