Researcher

Professor Ashish Sharma

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Biography

Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ashish is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is an engineering hydrologist interested in problems involving  hydrological uncertainty. Much of his research has focussed on the impact of climate change and variability on hydrological practice, along with applications related...view more

Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ashish is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is an engineering hydrologist interested in problems involving  hydrological uncertainty. Much of his research has focussed on the impact of climate change and variability on hydrological practice, along with applications related to remote sensing, formulating stochastic approaches, developing hydrological models, and the two big hydrology bread-and-butter problems - design flood estimation + water resources management.

Ashish has served as the President of the International Commission of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS) Commission on Statistical Hydrology (STAHY) since 2016.

Ashish has served on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts twice.

Ashish served on the Technical Committee overseeing the development of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff Design Flood Estimation guidelines (ARR2016).


My Grants

See Australian Research Council grants at https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grants#/20/1/-announced/Ashish%20Sharma/ from most recent to older. Ashish is frequently awarded other (non-ARC) grants, many funded directly from Government and other agencies.


My Qualifications

PhD - Civil Engineering (1996) Utah State University

MTech - Water Resources Engineering (1991) IIT Delhi

BEng - Civil Engineering (1989) IIT Roorkee


My Awards

2019 - President's Prize, Institution of Engineer's Australia in relation to service on Technical Committee revising ARR2016 

2011 - Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (level 3) on representing low-frequency variability in hydro-climatic simulations


My Research Activities

See details of recent research projects and activities, along with graduated PhDs, on http://www.hydrology.unsw.edu.au/


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Satellite Remote Sensing

Climate Change Assessment of design storm and flood extremes

Characterisation of drought anomalies

Water Supply Management 

Improving Radar and Satellite Hydrologic Characterisation through ingenious statistical applications

Improving characterisation of eco-hydrological systems


Currently supervising

See recent papers. Most of the first authors are either PhD students or postdoctoral fellows. See also many papers where the first author is an undergraduate or coursework masters student reporting the work in his/her honours thesis.

See also past graduated PhDs at http://www.hydrology.unsw.edu.au/phd-graduates

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Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Level 3, Room CE307
Kensington Campus

Contact

(+61 2) 9385 5768
(+61 2) 9385 6139