Dr. Y. R. Satyaji Rao

About

Dr. Yellamelli Ramji Satyaji Rao is a Director, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India and his research interests are coastal hydrology, nitrate transport modelling, impact assessment of faulty septic tanks on groundwater and stormwater flood modelling. Graduated in Civil Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India, post-graduated in ‘Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering’ from the Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Awarded a Ph.D. from Dept., of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi), India. Dr. Rao is having 34 years’ research experience in various capacities in the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee and also in the field of coastal hydrology and other facets of hydrology. He is having more than 150 publications in the journals, conferences, book chapters etc. Thirty in house projects which includes consultancy projects were successfully completed. Acted as a member in various committees constituted by Central Water Commission, Govt., of India, National Green Tribunal, BIS, DST and other State Govt., Departments. Honoured with UNDP fellowship and worked as adjunct faculty at San Diego State University, USA., Junior fellowship from IWMI, Sri Lanka and many best paper awards etc. Received the Association of Hydrologists of India (AHI) lecture award for the year 2024 on the topic “Submarine Ground Water Discharge (SGD) studies in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coastal regions”. Contributed as ToT in the National Hydrology Project I and II on Hydrological Data Processing and Analysis and also contributed to the National Hydrology Project (NHP). Major projects completed recently on River Bank Filtration for safe drinking water, Urban Flood Modeling studies in major cities in India (Chennai, Hyderabad and Kakinada), Impact of aquaculture on Groundwater in the east coastal deltas, high performance advanced septic systems and submarine groundwater discharge studies in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coasts, India especially on nutrient loading. Many capacity building activities, trainings and mass awareness programmes organized.