Previous Experience/Positions held

• Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies Ltd (2007-2009)
• Assistant Engineer, Ground Water Department (2011-2012)
• Assistant Engineer, Local Self Government Department (2012-2014)
• Assistant Professor, Government Engineering College Kannur (2014)
• Assistant Professor, Government Engineering College, Barton Hill(2014-2019)

Areas of Interest:

• Fluid Mechanics
• Watershed Modelling
• Groundwater Modelling
• Soft Computing in Water Resources Management
• Urban Hydrology
• Stochastic hydrology

Courses Handled

• Fluid Mechanics
• Water Resources Engineering
• Watershed Modelling, Advanced Numerical Techniques

Publications:

International Journals

1. Chandran, D., Wardah, H. & Chithra, N.R.(2026). Bridging process-based hydrology and deep learning: exploring hybrid MIKE NAM--LSTM techniques for accurate streamflow prediction in a humid tropical river basin in India.  Journal of Earth System Science  135, 85 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-026-02798-0
2. Chandran, D., & Chithra, N. R. (2026). Strategies for Implementing Deep Learning Techniques for Rainfall-Runoff Modeling in a River Having Sparse Data. Water Resources Management, 40(5), 217. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-026-04585-4.
3. Chandran, D., & Chithra, N. R. (2025). A hybrid modelling framework for zero-inflated and skewed streamflow: enhancing prediction of extreme flows in tropical rain fed catchments. Journal of Hydrology , 134377 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134377 .
4. Chandran, D., & Chithra, N. R. (2025). Predictive performance of ensemble learning boosting techniques in daily streamflow simulation. Water Resources Management , 39(3), 1235-1259. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-024-04029-x.

Conferences

1. Sreedevi, V.M., Chandran, D., Robin Davis, P., Chithra, N.R., Pradeepmon, T.G. (2026). Prediction of Compressive Strength of Concrete Using Machine Learning Techniques. In: Pillai, V.M., Ravi Sekhar, C., Goh, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Logistics, Supply Chain and Transportation, Volume 2. ICLST 2024. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-0853-2_29
2. Aiswarya B. Babu, Divya Chandran; Effect of climate change on probable maximum precipitation of Neyyar river basin.  AIP Conf. Proc.  22 September 2023; 2856 (1): 030004.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0165715
3. B BABU, AISWARYA and Chandran, Divya, Application of Swat Model to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrology of Bharathapuzha River Basin (December 7, 2022). Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Energy and Environment 2022 (ICSEE 2022),   http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4295954
4. Chandran, Divya and S B, KRISHNA PRIYA, Dam Break Analysis of Idamalayar Dam (December 6, 2022). Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Energy and Environment 2022 (ICSEE 2022), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4294595  or  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4294595

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