Flood Forecasting and Hydraulic Structures: Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, Hydro 2021

P. V. Timbadiya is an Associate Professor in the Water Resources Engineering section, Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He secured his doctoral degree and post-graduation in Water Resources Engineering from SVNIT Surat in 2012 and 2004, respectively. He did his under graduation in Civil Engineering from Sardar Vallabhbhai Regional College of Engineering Technology (now SVNIT). He has guided two Doctoral Thesis and 29 Master’s Dissertations. He has more than 110 research papers to his credit, including 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He served as Dean (Alumni and Resources Generation), and currently serving as Sectional Head, Water Resources Engineering Section at SVNIT. He played an instrumental role in setting up infrastructure facilities in the Centre of Excellence on ‘Water Resources and Flood Management’ such as the Experimental Hydraulics Lab, Computational Hydraulics Lab, Water Circulation System, and others. He is appointed as ‘National Consultant’ for Kalpsar Project by Narmada, Water Resources, Water Supply and Kalpsar Department of Govt. of Gujarat. He is a recipient of ‘Best Case Study Award - 2015’ award by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his publication in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and ‘Young Engineers Award’ by the Institution of Engineers (India) in the year 2015. He received ‘Prof. R. J. Garde Research Award’ for the year 2020 by the Indian Society for Hydraulics. He has awarded DST-SERB Core Research Grant for the project on ‘Local Scouring around tandem and staggered bridge piers on Non-uniform mobile bed’ in the year 2021. He is active in various professional bodies and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and short-term training programmes in his academic career.  Prem Lal Patel is a Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources in the Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He served as the Deputy Director of SVNIT. He also worked as a Reader in the Civil Engineering Department at Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU) from 1999-2007. He served as an Assistant Executive Engineer in Border Roads Organization (BRO) from 1995-1999. He did his bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Government Engineering College, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India and then pursued his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Civil Engineering from the then University of Roorkee, now Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He has published more than 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences of repute. He has guided 12 Doctoral Thesis and 47 Master’s Dissertation so far. He has also served in various academic positions in SVNIT Surat, such as Dean (Academics), Head of Civil Engineering Department, Dean (Research & Consultancy), Dean (PG), etc. He was also instrumental in setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) on ‘Water Resources and Flood Management’ in the Institute through a research grant from World Bank-sponsored TEQIP-II. He is a recipient of visiting International Fellowship (VIF-2017) 2017 for attending the ASCE EWRI Congress-2017 in Sacramento, California, USA. He is active in various professional bodies and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and short-term training programmes in his academic career.  Vijay P. Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sc. in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an Honorary Diplomate of ASCE-AAWRE. He is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a Fellow of EWRI-ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He has published extensively in the areas ofhydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, and water resources (more than 1320 journal articles, 31 textbooks, 75 edited reference books, 110 book chapters, and 315 conference papers). He has received over 95 national and international awards, including three honorary doctorates. He is a member of 11 international science/engineering academies. He has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH), Chair of the Watershed Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is currently President of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. He has served/serves as Editor-in-Chief of three journals and two book series and serves on editorial boards of more than 25 journals and three book series. His Google Scholar citations include 64073, h-index: 115, and I10-index: 903. V. L. Manekar is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Dean (Planning & Development) at Sardar VallabhbhaiNational Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat. He worked as Dean (Student Welfare) at SVNIT ‘Adjunct Professor’ at SCOE, Washim of SGBB University, Amravati. He is a member of the Academic council (Senate) of the Government College of Engineering, Amravati (an Autonomous Institute of Govt of Maharashtra). He was also an Expert Member of the Academic & Selection Board of M. S. University Vadodara. He is working as a member of the State Technical Agency, PMGSY-Gujrat, Government of India. From India, he is one of the members of the Australia India Water Association (AIWA), which is recently formed between the two governments. He has more than 32 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering. He has experience working in different fields of Water Resources Engineering, including management of on-field irrigation systems, agro-climatic modelling, hydraulic and hydrologic modelling, sediment transport modelling and simulation, flow structure interaction, flood management and impact of changing climate and LULC on water resources. He has many research papers to his credit published in reputed international/national journals and reputed conference proceedings, book chapters, monograph, guided several Ph.D., P.G. dissertations & U.G. projects and completed many consultancy projects and handling of externally funded research projects to his credit.