Dr. Saranya M.S.

Department	Civil Engineering
Designation	Assistant Professor
Joining Date	06/12/2025
Qualification	PhD
Specialization	Water Resources Engineering
email id	saranya@carmelcet.in

Teaching : 6 years and 5 months

Journal Publications

Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair 2023 A Comparative Evaluation of Streamflow Prediction Using SWAT and NNAR Model in Meenachil River Basin of Central Kerala, India. Water Sci. Technol. 88 (8): 2002-2018. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2023.330 (SCIE)
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair 2023 Prioritization of CMIP5 based climate models in simulating precipitation using multicriteria decision making methods. IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1237/1/012015
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair 2022 Impact evaluation and analysis at a river basin scale under projected climate and land-use change. Water Supply 22 (12): 8907–8922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2022.417 (SCIE)
Saranya M.S. & Vinish V. Nair 2021 Evaluation and Selection of CORDEX-SA Datasets and Bias Correction Methods for a Hydrological Impact Study in a Humid Tropical River Basin, Kerala, J. Water Clim. Chang. 12 (8): 3688-3713. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2021.139 (SCIE)
Saranya M. S. 2013 Delineation of potential zones for artificial recharge using GIS in Vamanapuram river basin, SJCET Journal of Engineering and Management,Vol 2, No.2, July-December 2013.

Book Chapter

Saranya, M.S., Nair, V.V. 2024. Evaluation of the Influence of Land Use and Climate Changes in Runoff Simulation Using Semi-Distributed Hydrological Model. In: Mesapam, S., Ohri, A., Sridhar, V., Tripathi, N.K. (eds) Developments and Applications of Geomatics. DEVA 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 450. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8568-5_17

Other International and National Conferences

Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair, Prioritization of CMIP5 based climate models in simulating precipitation using multicriteria decision making methods, International Conference on Sustainable Practices in Engineering and Technology (IC-SPET’23) June 2023
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair, Evaluation of the influence of land use and climate changes in run off simulation using semi distributed hydrological model, International Virtual Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA-2022) August 2022
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair, Ranking of CORDEX – SA datasets for Meenachil river basin, Kerala using TOPSIS method, International Virtual Conference on Innovative Trends in Hydrological and Environmental Systems (ITHES-2021) April 2021
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair, Ranking of CORDEX – SA datasets for Meenachil river basin, Kerala using Multi-criteria decision making method, International Conference on Energy and Environment (ICEE), April 2021
Saranya M. S. & Vinish V. Nair 2020, Evaluation of reliability of Empirical models for estimating Global solar radiation, Indian National Groundwater conference (INGWC-2020), February 2020
Saranya M. S. & Thulasidharan Nair B. Assessment of hydropower potential using GIS in Vamanapuram river basin, 14th National conference on technological trends (NCTT-2013), August 2013

Attended 5 day FDP on Statistical and simulation modeling in transportation engineering, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering RIT Kottayam (March 16-20, 2021)
Attended workshop on groundwater modelling organized by CWRDM (November 17, 2020)
Attended two week ISTE STTP on Introduction to structural engineering conducted by IIT Kharagpur from 30th November 2015 to 9th January 2016
Attended two week ISTE STTP on Environmental studies conducted by IIT Bombay (June 2-12, 2015)
Attended two day workshop on Environmental impact assessment organized by the Department of Civil Engineering RIT Kottayam (November 20 – 21, 2015)
Attended one day ISTE Workshop on Green building awareness under MHRD through ICT (August 24, 2013)

Published 3 SCIE-indexed journal papers, 1 book chapter, and 1 conference papers

Organizing committee member of International conference on recent advances in civil engineering (ICRACE 2024) at CUSAT Kochi (December 2024)
Received Best Paper Award for the paper, ‘Prioritization of CMIP5 based climate models in simulating precipitation using multicriteria decision making methods’, presented in the First InternationaReceived Best Paper Award for the paper, ‘Prioritization of CMIP5 based climate models in simulating precipitation using multicriteria decision making methods’, presented in the First International Conference on Sustainable Practices in Engineering and Technology, organized by Sree Buddha College of Engineering College, Pattoor (IC-SPET’23), June 2023
Received AICTE scholarship under National Doctoral Fellowship (NDF) scheme for pursuing PhD
Received appointment order under Military Engineering Services (MES) as Junior Engineer (civil)
GATE score holder.
Received Stipend under Speed IT scheme for Post-Graduation.

Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai (July 2013 to July 2018)
Assistant Professor, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), (August 2024 to December 2025)