Sumit Sen

Sumit Sen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hydrology and also serves as Head in the Centre for Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research activities involve field and modeling experiments to investigate water movement through various components of the watershed and to understand runoff generation mechanisms at various scales. He has also been conducting research on understanding springs as part of the larger Himalayan hydrology and water security. During the WMO HydroHub Second Innovation Call (November 2020 to April 2021) he worked with Riverlabs UK and the University of Birmingham to operationalize lidar-based non-contact water level sensors within the Central Water Commission in India.