Subhankar Karmakar
Assistant Professor
 
 
Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 
Powai, Mumbai-400076, INDIA. 
Phone: 91-22-25767851/52
Fax: 91-22-25764650
Email: skarmakar@iitb.ac.in
Education Research Interest Current Research Awards Projects
Affiliations Students Publication Conference Papers Professional Contribution
 
 
Education
 Ph.D. (Water Resour. & Env. Engg.) - 2006
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  Thesis: Grey optimization for uncertainty modeling in water resources systems
 B.E. (Civil Engineering) - 1998
  Jalpaiguri Govt. Engg. College, West Bengal, India
  Thesis: Design of steel truss road bridge
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Research Interests
Environmental and Water Resources Systems - development of optimization models for surface water quality management, irrigation water management, floodplain planning and management, solid waste management
Uncertainty Modeling in Environmental Systems - probabilistic approach, fuzzy sets theory and interval optimization
Water Conveyance Systems and Hydraulic Designs - optimal design of water & waste water conveyance systems and hydraulic structures
Flood Risk Management - flood vulnerability analysis using GIS, multivariate flood frequency analysis
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Current Research
As mentioned in my RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST
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Awards
2007
  Article: Karmakar and Mujumdar, 30 (5), 1218
  Selected for 25 hottest articles of AWR (Elsevier)
 
2006
  Article: Karmakar and Mujumdar, 29 (7), 1088-1105
  Selected for 25 hottest articles of AWR (Elsevier)
 
2006
  Post-doctoral fellowship from Dept. of Civil &
  The University of Western Ontario, Canada
 
2002
  Recommendation for the Upgradation of Registration
  Senate Committee, IISc, Bangalore
 
2000
  Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering scholarship
 
2000
  The Institute Scholarship for pursuing Ph. D.
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
 
1992-94
  National Merit Scholarships in 10th and 12th Std.
 
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Projects
2008-2011
  Uncertainty modeling in waste load allocation for a river system
  IIT Bombay
 
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Affiliations
Associate Member of the Institute of Engineers (India)
Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Member of International Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Germany
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Students
 Pradip Kalbar
 
 
 
 Tejaswini B. Kurwatti
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Publications
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, 2009. "Advances of grey optimization in water quality management", ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (Pub: Indian Society for Hydraulics)15(SP1), 1-24
 
Subhankar Karmakar and Slobodan P. Simonovic, 2009. "Bivariate flood frequency analysis. Part 2: a copula based approach with mixed marginal distributions (DOI:10.1111/j.1753-318X.2009.01020.x)", Journal of Flood Risk Management (Pub: Blackwell Publishing, UK)2(1), 1-13
 
Subhankar Karmakar and Slobodan P. Simonovic, 2008. "Bivariate flood frequency analysis: Part 1. Determination of marginals by parametric and nonparametric(DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-318X.2008.00022.x)", Journal of Flood Risk Management (Pub: Blackwell Publishing, UK)1(4), 190-20
 
Pradeep P. Mujumdar and Subhankar Karmakar, 2008. "Grey fuzzy multiobjective optimization ", Book Chap. in: Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Theory and Applications with Recent Developments, edited by Cengiz Kahraman (Pub: Springer)1(1), 453-48
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, 2007. "A two-phase grey fuzzy optimization approach for water quality management of a river system", Advances in Water Resources (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands)30(5), 1218-1
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, 2006. "An inexact optimization approach for river water quality management", Journal of Environmental Management, Pub: Elsevier, Netherland81(3), 233-24
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, 2006. "Grey fuzzy optimization model for water quality management of a river system", Advances in Water Resources (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands)29(7), 1088-1
 
Pradeep P. Mujumdar, S. Vedula, Subhankar Karmakar, P. Manavalan and P. P. Nageshwar Rao, 2004. "Irrigation water allocation in canal command areas ", ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (Pub: Indian Society for Hydraulics)10(1), 33-47
 
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Confernce Papers
Tyagi Nishant Shradhanand and Subhankar Karmakar, "Uncertainty Analysis of a Municipal Water Distribution System, Second International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE 09) & SECOTOX Conference, June 21-26, 2009, Mykonos Island, Greece",  Greece  held on June 21, 2009
 
Subhankar Karmakar, "Invited presentation in Division of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, School of Civil& Environmental Engineering (CEE) under the GlobalTECH programme on "Systems Techniques and Uncertainty Modeling in Water Resources Management", 6-8 April 20",  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  held on April 8, 2009
 
Subhankar Karmakar and Slobodan P. Simonovic, "Bivariate flood frequency analysis using Copula with parametric and nonparametric marginals, CD Proceedings, 4th International Symposium on Flood Defence: Managing Flood Risk, Reliability and Vulnerability, May 14-16, 2008, Westin Harbour Castle,",  Toronto, Canada  held on May 14, 2008
 
Angela Peck, Jordan Black, Subhankar Karmakar and Slobodan P. Simonovic, "A web-based flood information system",  Toronto, Canada  held on May 14, 2008
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, "Advances of grey optimization in water quality management, Proceedings of the Brainstorming Workshop on Application of Advanced Soft Computing Techniques in Geo-Spatial Data Analysis, Sep 22-23, 2008, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay",  Mumbai, India  held on September 22, 2008
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, "A grey integer model for floodplain planning, CD Proceedings, National Conference (45th Annual Conference of IAEM) on Integrated Water and Wastewater Management, Nov 20-22, 2008, School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India,",  Kolkata, India  held on November 20, 2008
 
Rama Shankar Prasad, Praveen Kumar Mishra and Subhankar Karmakar, "7. Rama Shankar Prasad, Praveen Kumar Mishra and Subhankar Karmakar (2008) ",  Kolkata, India  held on November 20, 2008
 
Subhankar Karmakar, "Keynote presentation on - "Assessing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards" in a workshop on ",  Pravara Rural Engineering College, Loni (under Pune University, India)  held on September 26, 2008
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, "Grey fuzzy multiobjective optimization model for river water quality management, Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrological Perspectives for Sustainable Development (HYPESD ",  Roorkee, India  held on Febuary 23, 2005
 
Subhankar Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar, "Uncertainty in fuzzy membership functions for a river water quality management problem, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, S-Y Liong, K-K Phoon & V Babovic (eds), 1507-1514",  Singapore  held on June 21, 2004
 
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Professional Contributions
Ad hoc Reviewer for:,ISH Jl. of Hyd. Engg., Jl. of Flood Risk Mng., Adv. in Water Res., Journal of Comp. in Civil Engg. (ASCE), Advances in Engineering Software (Elsevier), Water Resources Research (AGU)
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