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Udit Bhatia

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Udit Bhatia

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
(Jointly with Computer Science and Engineering, Earth Sciences department)

  • BTech: National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, 2012
  • MS: Northeastern University, 2016
  • PhD: Northeastern University, 2018

Email: bhatia.u -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: 6/334
VOIP: 2550


  • Recent Publications

    1. Kumar, A.S., Majumder, R., Kapadia, V.P. and Bhatia, U.*, 2025. Partial flood defenses shift risks and amplify inequality in a core–periphery city. Nature Cities, pp.1-12.

    2. Upadhyay, D. and Bhatia, U.*, 2025 . Designing resilient multipurpose reservoir operation policies in presence of internal climate variability. Water Resources Research, 61(7), p.e2024WR038160.

    3. Goyal, S.S., Dave, R., Kumar, R. and Bhatia, U.*, 2024. Indian interstate trade exacerbates nutrient pollution in food production hubs. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), p.9.

    4. Bhasme, P. and Bhatia, U.*, 2024 . Improving the interpretability and predictive power of hydrological models: Applications for daily streamflow in managed and unmanaged catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 628, p.130421.

    5. Upadhyay, Divya, Pranab Mohapatra, and Bhatia, U., 2024 "Depth Duration Frequency of Extreme Precipitation Events Under Internal Climate Variability: Indian Summer Monsoon." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126, no. 8 (2021): e2020JD03419

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Apr 2025 to present)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (2019 - Apr 2025)
    • Graduate Research Assistant, Northeastern University (2014 to 2018)
    • Design Engineer(A), MECON Limited, Ranchi (2012 to 2014)

  • Awards

    • College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award 2019, Northeastern University, Boston
    • Best youth paper award candidate, International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructures,Shenzhen, China organized by U.S. National Academy of Engineers and Chinese Academy of Engineering
    • Dean Fellowship, Northeastern University, Boston (2014-2015)
    • Director Medal, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (2012)
    • Best graduating student award, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (2012)

  • Patents

    Bhatia, Udit, et al. (2019) "System for Networking and Analyzing Geospatial Data, Human Infrastructure, and Natural Elements." U.S. Patent Application No. 15/134,518. (Status: Granted).

Research Interests

  • ● Physics Guided Machine Learning for Urban Flooding
  • ● Food-Water Nexus
  • ● Resilience of Built and Natural Systems
  • ● Climate Variability and Change
  • ● Applied Networks

Complete List of Publications