Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Office Phone: 
022 - 2576 7288
Email: 
udmale@iitb.ac.in
Research Interests: 
  • Agriculture Water Management
  • Hydrometeorological Extremes and Hazards in the Changing Climate
  • Disaster Risk Assessment, and Management at the local level through a Transdisciplinary Approach
  • Droughts, Food Security and Multi-dimensional Poverty in Rural Areas
  • Drone Applications in Agriculture and Disaster Management
Personal Webpage: 
Prof. Parmeshwar D. Udmale's webpage
Education: 
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (2012 - 2015)(The International Special Doctoral Course for Integrated River Basin Management), University of Yamanashi, Japan
  • Master of Engineering in Water Engineering and Management (2009 - 2012), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • Research Assistant (under an exchange semester during Master of Engineering, 2010) Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  • Bachelor of Technology (2005 - 2009), Agricultural Engineering, Marathwada Agricultural University, India
Courses Taught: 
  • TD 602 Soil, Land Use, GIS, and Agriculture
  • TD 603 Water Resources Management
  • TD 632 Sustainable Development Goals and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • TD 655 Hydro-Meteorological Hazards Risk Assessment
  • TD 656 Characterizing Hydro-Meteorological Hazards & Risk
  • CEP Course Coordinator (Chief Minister Fellowship 2023 by Government of Maharashtra), Postgraduate Certificate Program in Tools for Effective Public Policy
Experience: 
  • Assistant Professor(Since 03/2021) Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA),Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India.
  • Affiliated Faculty(10/ 2020 – 03/ 2021) Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management & Department of Development and Sustainability, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  • Research Fellow(02/ 2020 – 03/2021) UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub,Department of Development and Sustainability, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  • Senior Research Associate(08/ 2019 – 02/ 2020) Water Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  • Project-Specific Researcher(12/18 - 07/19)Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering,Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Visiting Researcher(Since 03/18)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • Visiting Researcher(02/17- 03/17)Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
  • JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow(11/16 - 11/18)Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering,Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Project Researcher(06/16 - 11/16)Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. Project: Human‐Environmental Security in Asia‐Pacific Ring of Fire: Water‐Energy‐Food Nexus (WEFN) Project.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher(10/15 - 06/16)Interdisciplinary Research Centre for River Basin Environment, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan
Awards: 
  1. Young Faculty Award at IIT Bombay, 2021
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016-2018.
  3. Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship (2012-2015) for doctoral studies at the University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan.
  4. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as a young professional research support to attend The World Weather Open Science Conference, Montreal, Canada (Aug 16-21, 2014).
  5. Government of Maharashtra (India) Scholarship for Master of Engineering (Aug 2009 - Jan 2012).
  6. Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) Fellowship for Master of Engineering (Aug 2009 - Jan 2012).
  7. DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) Scholarship for an exchange semester at TU Braunschweig, Germany during Master of Engineering (Jun - Sept 2010).
  8. University Merit List First Rank for the discipline Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering at Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, India (2009).
  9. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2009)
Publications: 

Google Scholar (Citations = 1100+; h-index = 12) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EwRby-EAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

Scopus (Citations = 700+; h-index = 12) https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56401194100

Published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (Journal Impact Factor (IF, Years) are given in [ ]):

  1. Pal I., Dhungana G., Baskota A., Udmale P., Gadhawe M., Doydee P., Nguyen T. T. N. and Sophat S., Banerjee, S. (2023). Index-Based Tools for Livelihood Security and Resilience Assessment (LiSeRA) in Lower Mekong Basin. MethodsX, 102301, 11 [IF: 1.90, 2022]
  2. Pal I., Dhungana G., Baskota A., Udmale P., Gadhawe M., Doydee P., Nguyen T. T. N. and Sophat S. (2023). Multi-hazard livelihood security and resilience of Lower Mekong Basin communities, Sustainability, 15(11), 8469. [IF: 3.90, 2022]. [Scopus indexed]
  3. Mohanasundaram S., Baghel T., Thakur V., Udmale P., Shrestha S. (2023). Reconstructing NDVI and land surface temperature from cloud cover pixels of Landsat-8 images and assessing vegetation health index in the Northeast region of Thailand, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, volume 195, Article number: 211 (2023) [IF:3.10, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  4. Pramanik M., Szabo S., Pal I., Udmale P.D., O’Conner J., Sanyal M., Roy S., Zita S. (2021). Multi-hazard impacts of COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan on livelihoods and local-level SDG progress in the Sundarbans region, India. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:4, 20-30. [IF: 3.50, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  5. Udmale P. D., Pal I., Szabo S., and Pramanik M. (2021). International Cereal Trade of Bangladesh: Implications for Virtual Land, Water, and GHG Emissions from Agriculture. International Energy Journal (IEJ), Volume 21, Special Issue 1A (2021). [IF: 0.70, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  6. Pramanik M., Szabo S., Pal I., Udmale P. D., Pongsiri M., and Chilton, S. (2021). Population health risks in multi-hazard environments: action needed in the Cyclone Amphan and COVID-19 – hit Sundarbans region, India. Climate and Development (2021). [IF:4.30, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  7. Jhong B.C., Tachikawa Y., Tanaka T., Udmale P. D., and Tung C.P. (2020). A Generalized Framework for Assessing Flood Risk and Suitable Strategies under Various Vulnerability and Adaptation Scenarios: A Case Study for Residents of Kyoto City in Japan. Water 12(9), 2508. [IF: 3.40, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  8. Udmale P. D., Ichikawa, Y., Shaowei, N., Shrestha, S., and Pal, I. (2020). A statistical approach towards defining national-scale meteorological droughts in India using crop data, Environmental Research Letters, 15, 094090. [IF:6.95, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  9. Udmale P. D., Pal I., Szabo S., Pramanik M., and Large A. (2020). Global food security in the context of COVID-19: A scenario-based exploratory analysis. Global Food Security. Progress in Disaster Science, 100120. [IF:6.30, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  10. Pramanik M., Chowdhury K., Rana M. J., Bisht P., Pal R., Szabo S., Pal I., Behera B., Liang Q., Padmadas, S.S., and Udmale P. D. (2020). Climatic influence on the magnitude of COVID-19 outbreak: a stochastic model-based global analysis. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 32(5), 1095-1110[IF: 3.20, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  11. Pramanik M., Udmale P. D., Bhist P., Chowdhury K, Szabo S., and Pal I. (2020). Climatic factors influence the spread of COVID-19 in Russia. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 32(4), 723-737 [IF: 3.20, 2022]  [Scopus indexed]
  12. Shanmugam M., Udmale, P. D., Shrestha S., Baghel, T.; Doshi S., Narasimhan, B. and Kumar S. (2020). A new trend function-based regression kriging for spatial modeling of groundwater hydraulic heads under the sparse distribution of measurement sites. Acta Geophysica, 68: 751-772. [IF: 2.30, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  13. Jiang S., Ning S., Cao X., Jin J., Song F., Yuan X. Zhang L., Xu X, and Udmale P.D. (2019). Optimal Water Resources Regulation for the Pond Irrigation System Based on Simulation - A Case Study in Jiang-Huai Hilly Regions, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (15), 2717. [IF: NA] [Scopus indexed]
  14. Thapa B.R, Ishidaira H., Gusyev M., Pandey, V.P., Udmale P.D., Hayashi M., and Shakya N.M. (2019). Implications of the Melamchi water supply project for the Kathmandu Valley groundwater system. Water Policy, 21 (S1): 120–137. [IF: 1.60, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  15. Plangoen P. and Udmale P. D. (2017). Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Erosivity in the Huai Luang Watershed, Thailand. Atmosphere 2017, 8, 143. [IF:2.90, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  16. Ning S., Song, F., Udmale P.D., Thapa, B.R. and Ishidaira, H. (2017). Error Analysis and Evaluation of the Latest GSMap and IMERG Precipitation Products over Eastern China. Advances in Meteorology, Vol. 2017, Article ID 1803492, 16 pages. [IF: 2.90, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  17. Deb P., Tran D. and Udmale P. D. (2016). Assessment of the impacts of climate change and brackish irrigation water on rice productivity and evaluation of adaptation measures in Ca Mau province, Vietnam. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 125, 641. [IF: 3.50, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  18. Bui T. H., Ishidaira H. and Udmale P. D. (2016). Evaluation of Appropriate Precipitation Data for Streamflow Simulation in Data Sparse Catchments. Global Environment Research 24, 13-20. [IF:NA]
  19. Udmale P. D., Ichikawa Y., Nakamura T., Shaowei N., Ishidaira H. and Kazama, F. (2016). Rural drinking water issues in India’s drought-prone area: A case of Maharashtra State. Environmental Research Letters 11 (7), 074013. [IF:6.95, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  20. Udmale P.D., Ishidaira H., Thapa B.R., and Shakya N.M. (2016). The status of domestic water demand - supply deficit in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Water 8(5), 196. [IF: 2.544] [Scopus indexed]
  21. Shaowei N., Ishidaira H., Udmale P. D., and Ichikawa Y. (2015). Remote sensing-based analysis of recent variations in water resources and vegetation of a semi-arid region. Water 7(11):6039-6055. [IF: 3.40, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  22. Udmale P. D., Ichikawa Y., Manandhar S., Ishidaira H., Kiem, A., Shaowei, N. and Panda, S. N. (2015). How did the 2012 drought affect rural livelihoods in vulnerable areas? Empirical evidence from India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 13:454-469. [IF: 5.0, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  23. Udmale P. D., Ichikawa Y., Manandhar S., Ishidaira H., & Kiem A. S. (2014). Farmers׳ perception of drought impacts, local adaptation and administrative mitigation measures in Maharashtra State, India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 10:250-269. [IF: 5.0, 2022] [Scopus indexed]
  24. Udmale P. D., Shrestha S., Ichikawa Y. & Manandhar S. (2014). Assessing groundwater resources and it’s sustainability in drought prone area of India. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 (Hydraulic Engineering), 58, 235-240. [IF: NA]
  25. Udmale P. D., Ichikawa Y., Kiem A. and Panda S. N. (2014). Drought impacts and adaptation strategies for agriculture and rural livelihood in the Maharashtra State of India. The Open Agriculture Journal 8, 41-47. [IF: NA] [Scopus indexed]
Conferences: 

Udmale P. and Sinha R. (2023). ‘National Workshop on Heat Wave 2023: Early Planning and Effective Action: Saving Lives, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 13-14 February 2023 (Compendium) https://npdrr.nidm.gov.in/pdf/cn/Report_PE_3.pdf

Mhaskar M. D. and Udmale P. D., Large A., Agnihotri S. B. and Amit A. Global Food and Nutrition Security in a Post-Pandemic World: A Perspective. Sangam 2023 Conference on Health Systems Research & Innovation. Jun. 2-3, 2023, IIT Bombay, India

Mhaskar M. D. and Udmale P. D. Indicator-Based Assessment of Food Security at Sub-District Level in Maharashtra. 2nd Roundtable Discussion on Climate Extremes, Agriculture, and Food Security. Sept. 14, 2023, IIT Bombay, India

Mhaskar M. D., Udmale P. D., Large A., Agnihotri S. B., and Amit A. Global Food and Nutrition Security in a Post-Pandemic World: A Perspective. 2nd Roundtable Discussion on Climate Extremes, Agriculture, and Food Security. Sept. 14, 2023, IIT Bombay, India

Udmale P.D. and Ichikawa Y. Analysis of national-scale drought impacts on crop production and its propagation through a country’s food balance. Kyoto University International Symposium on “Food & Sustainability”. Oct. 29-30, 2018, Kyoto, Japan [Poster].

Udmale P.D. and Ichikawa Y. Developing a new methodology to define national droughts. The 8th International Water Resources Management Conference of International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Jun. 13-15, 2018, Beijing, China [Oral presentation].

Udmale, P. D., Ichikawa, Y. Assessing Impacts of National Scale Droughts on Cereal Production. American Geophysical Union 2017, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA [Poster].

Udmale, P. D., Ichikawa, Y. and Ishidaira, H.: How does drought affect the rural economy of India? Empirical findings highlighting the severity of drought impacts. International Conference on DROUGHT: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing, Mar. 10-14, 2015. Valencia, Spain. [Poster]

Udmale, P. D., Ichikawa, Y. and Ishidaira, H.: Assessment of drought impacts, adaptations and mitigation measures in Maharashtra State, India. The World Weather Open Science Conference, Aug. 16-21, 2014. Montreal, Canada. [Oral presentation]

Udmale, P. D., Shrestha, S., Ichikawa, Y. and Manandhar, S.: Assessing groundwater resource and it’s sustainability in drought-prone area of India. The 58th Conference on Hydraulic Engineering, Mar. 4-6, 2014. Kobe, Japan. [Oral presentation]

Udmale, P. D. and Ichikawa, Y.: Farmers’ perception of drought impacts and adaptation practices: Perspectives from Maharashtra State, India. The 1st International Forum on Asian Water Environment Technology. Dec. 18 - 20, 2013. Delhi, India. [Oral presentation].

 
Reports: 
  1. Udmale, P.D. and Sinha, R. (2023). Proceedings of National Workshop on Heat Wave 2023: Early Planning and Effective Action: Saving Lives, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2023.
  2. Agnihotri S., Arora A. and Udmale P, et al. (2021) AARDO - IIT Bombay Training Report
  3. Pramanik M., Szabo S., Pal I., Udmale P. D., Rana, M.J. (2020). A Systematic Analysis of Vietnam's province-level Household Energy Security Status and its Implication for Sustainable Development Goals. ICUE 2020 on Energy, Environment, and Climate Change, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. 20 – 22 October 2020.
  4. Udmale P., Tachikawa Y., Kobayashi, K. and Sayama T. (2019). Flood Hazard Mapping in Japan (a chapter for UNESCO IHP Report).
  5. Lawford R., Endo A., Pahl-Wostl C., Udmale P. (2016). Proceedings of the 3rd Future Earth Water-Energy-Food Nexus Workshop “Governance transformation and integrated information for the W-E-F Nexus”, 4-6 April 2016, Kyoto, Japan.

Ph.D. Themes

  • Agriculture Water Management with a specific focus on Crop Simulation Modelling
  • Hydrometeorological Extremes and Hazards in the Changing Climate, Disaster Risk Assessment and Management at the local level through a Transdisciplinary Approach
  • Droughts, Food Security and Multi-dimensional Poverty in Rural Areas
  • Drone Applications in Agriculture and Disaster Management

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Books/Book Chapters

  1. Khan, F. R., Pal, I., Szabo, S., Pramanik, M. & Udmale, P. (2021). Transboundary water risk governance frameworks in deltaic socio-economic regions: A case study of river deltas in Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. In Disaster Resilience and Sustainability (pp. 49-72). Elsevier.
  2. Udmale, P., Ichikawa, Y., Pal, I. & Plangoen, P. (2021). Characterization of meteorological droughts in the Upper Bhima Catchment of Maharashtra State, India. In Disaster Resilience and Sustainability, (pp. 321-342). Elsevier.
Ph.D Student Details: 

Name: Megha Deepak Mhaskar Position: Prime Minister’s Research Fellow Year of Joining: 2021 Research Theme: Water-Energy-Food Nexus (Synergies and Trade-offs) in Sugarcane Farming: A Case of Drought-Prone Maharashtra State, India

Name: Rutuja Pandharinath Shinde Position: Teaching Assistant Year of Joining: 2022 Research Theme: Modeling Impacts of Climate Extremes on Crop Productivity for Evidence-Based Policy Recommendations

Name: Namrata Sankhla Position: Teaching Assistant Year of Joining: 2023 Tentative Research Theme: Groundwater Governance Through Stakeholder Engagement