Debayan Mandal

My Education.

Graduate student

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

2021-Ongoing

Doctor of Philosophy in GEOGRAPHY
Advisor: Dr. Lei Zou

2019-2020

Master of Science in CIVIL ENGINEERING
Dissertation: “Flash Flood Screening Tool”
Advisor: Dr. Francisco Olivera

Undergraduate student

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, India

2013-2017

Bachelor of Technology in CIVIL ENGINEERING
Dissertation (Major Project): “Quantifying Predictive Uncertainty in Stream Flow Using SWAT”
Advisor: Dr. Roshan Karan Srivastav
Dissertation (Minor Project): “Calculation of return period of rainfall and subsequent floods in
Burhi Gandak river, Bihar”
Advisor: Dr. Jagdeesh P

Highschooler

Don Bosco School, Bandel, WB, India

2013

10+2 in ISC (Indian School Certificate)
Board: Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

2011

10 in ICSE (Indian Certificate for Secondary Education)
Board: Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

My Appointments.

Student Intern

June-July, 2015

Department of Barrage and Canal Design (North West and South),
Central Water Commission,
Ministry of Water resources,
Government of India.

Student Technician

April-September, 2019

Department of Civil Engineering,
Texas Engineering Experiment Station.

Graduate Research Assistant

January-May, 2021

Department of Geography,
Texas A&M University.

Student Technician

June-July, 2021

Department of Civil Engineering,
Texas Engineering Experiment Station.

Graduate Research Assistant

August-December, 2021

Department of Geography,
Texas A&M University.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

January-May, 2022

Department of Geography,
Texas A&M University.

My Research Experience.

Work Done: Designed watershed models to calculate outflow and measure uncertainties in a comparative format.
Organization: iSMART Research Lab, VIT University, Vellore
Year: 2017

Work Done: Calculated the return period of rainfall and predicted floods due to it using last 10 years data.
Organization: VIT University, Vellore
Year: 2015

Work Done: Comparative study of ancient city structure of different topographical locations and application of their architecture in modern day cities.
Organization: VIT University, Vellore
Year: 2014-2016

Work Done: Developing screening GIS Tool for outlet points which would be more prone to flash flood.
Organization: Texas A and M University, Texas
Year: 2019-2020

My Skills.

Software/Language

ArcGIS

STAAD

AutoCAD

Ecotect

ENVImet

Python

Matlab

Html, CSS, JavaScript

Node.js

MongoDB

Natural Language

Bengali

English

Hindi

German

My Publications.

Papers

S.Ghosh, A.Goenka, M.Deo, D Mandal (2017), Vernacular Architecture as an Idiom for Promoting Cultural Continuity in South Asia, AI & Society Journal.(DOI 10.1007/s00146-017-0754-z)
Yang Mingzheng, Lei Zou, Heng Cai, Yi Qiang, Binbin Lin, Bing Zhou, Joynal Abedin, and Debayan Mandal. (2022) Spatial–Temporal Land Loss Modeling and Simulation in a Vulnerable Coast: A Case Study in Coastal Louisiana Remote Sensing 14, no. 4: 896.Link
Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Nick Duffield, Ali Mostafavi, Heng Cai, Bing Zhou, Jian Tao, Mingzheng Yang, Debayan Mandal & Joynal Abedin (2022) Revealing the linguistic and geographical disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media, International Journal of Digital Earth, 15:1, 868-889, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2022.2070677
Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Ali Mostafavi, Binbin Lin, Mingzheng Yang, Nasir Gharaibeh, Heng Cai, Joynal Abedin, Debayan Mandal, VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 95, 2022, 101824,ISSN 0198-9715, Link.

Book Chapters

D Mandal, N.Joseph(2018), Comparative Study of Predictive Models In Microbial Induced Corrosion, Machine Learning and IoT: A Biological Perspective. (ISBN:- 9781138492691; Publication Date: 19th July, 2018, Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group)

My Presentations.

Debayan Mandal, Nikhil Bhatia, Roshan Srivastav.,
“Quantifying the Uncertainty in streamflow predictions using SWAT for Brazos–Colorado coastal watershed, Texas”,
AGU Fall Meeting’16, San Francisco,
15 December 2016.

Debayan Mandal, Venkatesh B, Roshan Srivastav.,
“Impact of Climate Variability and Land-use changes on river flow characteristics – A case study of the San Jacinto River Basin”,
AOGS Annual Meeting’16, Singapore,
11 August 2017.

Debayan Mandal, Binbin Lin, Bing Zhou, Heng Cai, Joynal Abedin, Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou.,
“Visualizing and Evaluating the Geocoding Uncertainty in Social Sensing for Disaster Management”,
International Cartographic Conference’21, Florence, Italy
16 December 2021.

Debayan Mandal, Binbin Lin, Bing Zhou, Heng Cai, Joynal Abedin, Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou.,
“A modular machine learning Platform for Resilience Inference Measurement and Enhancement”,
AAG Annual Meeting’22, Virtual,
26 February 2022.

My Service And Outreach.

Service

Student Member, Cartographic and Geographic Information Society, 2021–2022.
Student Member, American Association of Geographers, 2021–2022.
Student Member, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 2017–2019.
Undergraduate Researcher, iSMART Research Lab, 2016–2018.
Student Member, American Geophysical Union, 2016–2022.
Student Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014–2017.
Senior Editor, Hindu Education Plus Club (Newspaper), School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, 2015 – 16.
Committee Member, Academy for Future Faculty, Texas A and M University, 2019–2020.
Director, Academy for Future Faculty, Texas A and M University, 2020–2022.
Representative for Water Resources Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Students Association, Civil Engineering Department, Texas A and M University, 2019-2020.

Outreach

Organizer/Coordinator, Organizing Committee, Odessey’15 and ‘16, VIT University, Vellore.
Student Volunteer, Juvenile Care, VIT University branch, 2015–2016.
Student Volunteer, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, Annual Meeting 2017.
Student Volunteer, Student Research Week 2019, Texas A&M University, Texas.

My Awards.

Undergraduate Mentoring Program 2016 mentee,
American Geophysical Union,
Dec 2016.

Second in Water Conservation Week,
VIT University,
2017.

Featured in a book for inspiring story for budding engineers,
Shape-IT (Dr. Subramani R, Ms Vaijayanthi S),
2017 (ISBN: - 978-1-946869-16-6)

Departmental Fellowship for Civil Engineering,
in Texas A&M University,
for the year 2019.

Texas Public Education Grant,
2019-2020 academic year term.

Travel Funding (USNC) to participate in the 30th International Cartographic Conference,
December 14 through 18, 2021.

Get In Touch

Shoot me a mail if you wanna work with me.

Otherwise driveby compliments are welcome too!

CONTACT ME

I'm Debayan Mandal.

Engineer, Geographer, Web Developer;

Hey there,

My Education.

Graduate student

2021-Ongoing

2019-2020

Undergraduate student

2013-2017

Highschooler

2013

2011

My Appointments.

Student Intern

June-July, 2015

Student Technician

April-September, 2019

Graduate Research Assistant

January-May, 2021

Student Technician

June-July, 2021

Graduate Research Assistant

August-December, 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant

January-May, 2022

My Research Experience.

Quantifying Predictive Uncertainty in Stream Flow Using SWAT

Quantifying Predictive Uncertainty in Stream Flow Using SWAT

Calculation of return period of rainfall and subsequent floods in Burhi Gandak river, Bihar

Calculation of return period of rainfall and subsequent floods in Burhi Gandak river, Bihar

Vernacular Architecture as an Idiom for Promoting Cultural Continuity in South Asia

Vernacular Architecture as an Idiom for Promoting Cultural Continuity in South Asia

Flash Flood Screening Tool

Flash Flood Screening Tool

My Skills.

Software/Language

ArcGIS

STAAD

AutoCAD

Ecotect

ENVImet

Python

Matlab

Html, CSS, JavaScript

Node.js

MongoDB

Natural Language

Bengali

English

Hindi

German

My Publications.

Papers

Book Chapters

My Presentations.

American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union

Asia-Oceanic Geophysical Union

Asia-Oceanic Geophysical Union

International Cartographic Conference

International Cartographic Conference

American Association of Geographers

American Association of Geographers

My Service And Outreach.

Service

Outreach

My Awards.

Undergraduate Mentoring Program 2016 mentee, American Geophysical Union, Dec 2016.

Second in Water Conservation Week, VIT University, 2017.

Featured in a book for inspiring story for budding engineers, Shape-IT (Dr. Subramani R, Ms Vaijayanthi S), 2017 (ISBN: - 978-1-946869-16-6)

Departmental Fellowship for Civil Engineering, in Texas A&M University, for the year 2019.

Texas Public Education Grant, 2019-2020 academic year term.

Travel Funding (USNC) to participate in the 30th International Cartographic Conference, December 14 through 18, 2021.

Get In Touch

Shoot me a mail if you wanna work with me.

Undergraduate Mentoring Program 2016 mentee,
American Geophysical Union,
Dec 2016.

Second in Water Conservation Week,
VIT University,
2017.

Featured in a book for inspiring story for budding engineers,
Shape-IT (Dr. Subramani R, Ms Vaijayanthi S),
2017 (ISBN: - 978-1-946869-16-6)

Departmental Fellowship for Civil Engineering,
in Texas A&M University,
for the year 2019.

Texas Public Education Grant,
2019-2020 academic year term.

Travel Funding (USNC) to participate in the 30th International Cartographic Conference,
December 14 through 18, 2021.