Educational Qualifications:

Work Experiences:

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

• Ph. D.: Parameter Optimization for Event-based Rainfall-Runoff Model using Soft Computing Techniques.
• M. TechProject: Rainfall-RunoffModeling Using Remote Sensing and GIS.
• B. TechProject: Flow Measurement and Sediment Analysis of River Krishna.

PROJECT GUIDANCE:

Ph.D. Thesis awarded:   1

Ph.D. Thesis Ongoing:   1

SANCTIONED SPONSORED PROJECT, FDP & WORKSHOP

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

•  Acted as a panellist for a one-day brainstorming session on “Hydrological Issues in the Coastal Deltaic Region with special emphasis on Climate Change” held at Deltaic Regional Centre National Institute of Hydrology Kakinada, a government of India society, under Ministry of Jal Sakthi, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
• Received an outstanding poster award for the final year project team guided paper titled “Identification of Groundwater Recharge Potential Zones Using Geospatial Technique” at The International Conference on Futuristic Technologies 2021 on January 22-24, 2021, IIT Delhi.
•  Received a seed grant amount of Rs 3,00,000/- for the project titled “Experimental Investigation and Analysis of Non-Point Source (NPS) Pollutants in an Agricultural Watershed using GIS-based Hydrological Model” from NIT Andhra Pradesh, 2018.
• Delivered a session in the Civil Engineering Department of Kallam Haranadhareddy Institute of Technology, Chowdavaram, Guntur on 12^th March 2019 as a part of a Two-day National Seminar on “Geospatial Technology for Environmental Sustainability at Indian Scenario” Sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology (DST).
•  Appreciation and Incentives were received for a contribution towards Academic Research at KL (Deemed to be University) in the academic year 2017-18.
•  Appreciation from the Head of the Department, KL University for excellent work and the endless hours of service to the department and also for getting good feedback for the Water Resources Engineering course for the academic year 2017-18.
•  Nominee for Andhra Pradesh Akademi Sciences- Young Scientist Award selections held on 23rd September 2017 at Conference Hall, Deichmann Auditorium, Acharya   Nagarjuna University Campus, Guntur.
•  Appreciation for excellence in academics and obtaining a doctoral degree in civil engineering by KLU Women’s Forum on the occasion of International Women’s Day Celebrations 2017.
•  MHRD fellowship for PhD during the academic years December 2010 to December 2014.
•  MHRD fellowship for PG during the academic years June 2007 to June 2009.
•  Participated as an enumerator in the traffic census survey on National Highway No-5 conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering for the National Highway Authority of India from 7^th November to 14^th November 2005.

FDP/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED:

• Conducted One-week online" Faculty Development Program on “Applications of  Remote Sensing & GIS in Water Resources” from 19^th Oct to 23rd Oct 2020, NIT Andhra Pradesh.
• Conducted webinar on J-Gate as a search and discovery tool for accessing scholarly literature via Shodh Sindhu consortia MHRD on July 18^th,2020, NIT Andhra Pradesh.
• Organized a “User Awareness Workshop on Web of Science”, on 16^th Oct 2018, NIT Andhra Pradesh, Tadepalligudem.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

• Chudalmanikanta Bolisetty, Chirasmayee Savitha, Reshma Talari (2024) Spatial-Temporal Analysis of CHIRPS satellite precipitation estimates over a Small Agricultural Watershed in India, 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering to be held on December 21-23, 2023 Organized by Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal in association with Indian Society for Hydraulics. (Accepted).
•  Mahendra Patel, Tarun Kumar Jami, Reshma Talari, Chirasmayee Savitha (2024) Soil Moisture Analysis of Agricultural Watershed in India Using Google Earth Engine and SMAP, 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering to be held on December 21-23, 2023 Organized by Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal in association with Indian Society for Hydraulics. (Accepted).
• Savitha, C., Reshma, T. (2024). Performance Evaluation of Support Vector Machine and Random Forest Techniques for Land Use-Land Cover Classification—A Case Study on a Mili Scale Agricultural Watershed, Tadepalligudem, India. 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_28.
•  Kumar, S., Reshma, T., Chirasmayee, S., Priyanka, K., Priyanka, K., Ram, G. (2024). Flood Hazard Mapping for Amaravati Region Using Geospatial Techniques. 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_19.
•  Tammisetti, Rajkumar & Reshma, Talari & Savitha, Chirasmayee. (2023). Spatiotemporal Variation of Interception in an Agriculture Watershed—Tadepalligudem, West Godavari, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9147-9_33.
• Shiva Chandra, V., Reshma, T. (2022). Urbanization Implications on Local Climate and Groundwater Levels Using Index-Based Techniques. In: Rao, C.M., Patra, K.C.,    Jhajharia, D., Kumari, S. (eds) Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 176. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4629-4_36.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

JOURNALS:

• Savitha, C., Talari, R. Evaluating the performance of random forest, support vector machine, gradient tree boost, and CART for improved crop-type monitoring using greenest pixel composite in Google Earth Engine. Environ Monit Assess 197, 437 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-13880-3.
• Vaddiraju, S.C., Talari, R.,(2025), Geospatial Analysis of Hydrological Responses and Surface Runoff Patterns in the Saroor Nagar Urban Watershed” has been accepted for publication in the scientific research, journal Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, Vol. 24, No. 3  https://doi.org/10.46488/.
• Vaddiraju, S.C., Talari, R., Bhavana, K. et al. Predicting the future land use and land cover changes for Saroor Nagar Watershed, Telangana, India, using open-source GIS. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1499 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12128-2
•  Shiva Chandra Vaddiraju, Talari, Reshma. (2023). Assessment of groundwater potential zones in Saroor Nagar watershed, Telangana, India, using geospatial techniques and analytical hierarchy process. Environ Sci Pollut Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26185-0.
•   Savitha, Chirasmayee & Reshma, Talari (2023). Mapping Cropland Extent Using Sentinel-2 Datasets and Machine Learning Algorithms for an Agriculture Watershed. Smart Agricultural Technology. 4.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2023.100193.
•   Shiva Chandra Vaddiraju, Reshma T (2022) Urban flood susceptibility analysis of Saroor Nagar Watershed of India using Geomatics-based multi-criteria analysis framework. Environ Sci Pollut Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24672-4.
•   Shiva Chandra Vaddiraju, Reshma T. (2022). Urbanization implications on hydro-meteorological parameters of Saroor Nagar Watershed of Telangana, Environmental Challenges,1-15, Volume 8, ISSN 2667-0100. doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100562
•   Vaddiraju SC, T Reshma, Savitha C. (2022) Determination of impervious area of Saroor Nagar Watershed of Telangana using spectral indices, MLC, and machine learning (SVM) techniques. Environ Monit Assess. 194(4):258. doi: 10.1007/s10661-022-09901-0. PMID: 35257225.

• Vaddiraju SC, T Reshma, Savitha C. (2022) Determination of impervious area of Saroor Nagar Watershed of Telangana using spectral indices, MLC, and Machine Learning (SVM) techniques. Environment Monitoring Assessment. 194(4):258. DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-09901-0. PMID: 35257225.

• T. Reshma, K Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap, Agilan V (2018), “Parameters optimization using fuzzy rule-based multi-objective genetic algorithm for an event-based rainfall-runoff model”, Water Resources Management, DOI: org/10.1007/s11269-017-1884-2.

•   T. Reshma, K Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap, Agilan V (2017), “Single and Two-step optimization of Infiltration parameters and Manning ‘s Roughness Coefficients for a watershed using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm”, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, DOI:10.1080/09715010.2017.134826.

•   A Chaitanya Kumar and T Reshma (2017), “4D Applications of GIS in construction Management”, Advances in Civil Engineering, doi.org/10.1155/2017/1048540.
•   N. Jagadeesh, T Reshma (2017), “Study on a smart city to transform 23^rd ward of Vijayawada municipal corporation to smart wards”, International Journal of Civil     Engineering and Technology, Vol:8(1), pp.238-244.
•   K Sunil, K Sahithi, T Reshma, K Hemath Raja (2017), “Use of Industrial wastes in the construction of flexible pavements”, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, Vol. 8(4), pp.1117-1122.
•  J. Sai Srinivas, T Kedhar Sriram Kumar, T Reshma (2016), “Simulation of runoff for an experimental watershed using SWAT”, International Journal of Technical Research and Applications, Vol-4(3), pp.261-266.
•  T. Reshma, K Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap, Mehdi Ahmedi, Agilan V (2015), “Optimization of Calibration Parameters for an Event-Based Watershed Model Using Genetic Algorithm”, Water Resource Management 29, 4589-4606.
• T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap (2012), “Simulation of Event-based Runoff Using HEC-HMS Model for an Experimental Watershed” International Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 2013, 2(3): 42-46.
• T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap (2011), "Determination of Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Model Parameters Using Artificial Neural Network" International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol 04, pp.222-224.
•  T. Reshma, P.Sundara Kumar, M. J. Ratna Kanth Babu, K. Sundara Kumar (2010), "Simulation of Runoff in Watersheds using SCS-CN and Muskingum-Cunge methods using Remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems" International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Vol.25.

CONFERENCES:

• T. Reshma, Shiva Chandra Vaddiraju, Chirasmayee (2023) “An Appraisal of National Education Policy of India for Higher Education” International Conference on New Trends in Teaching and Education, to be held on December 6 -9, Berlin, Germany.
• V.Shiva Chandra, T. Reshma, K. Bhavana, S. Apsana (2022) “Assessing the Change in Impervious Area of a Rapidly Urbanized Saroor Nagar Watershed – A Geomatics Approach”, International Conference on 9th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region organised by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), from September 21-23 in Goa.
• Shaik Md Imran, Reshma Talari (2022), Assessment of Vertical accuracy of various Open-source digital elevation models over Prakasam district (India), International Conference on 9th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region organised by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), from September 21-23 in Goa.
• Chirasmayee Savitha, T. Reshma, Raj Kumar Tammisetti (2022), Determination of Appropriate Remote Sensing Indices for Paddy Yield in the agricultural watershed region, International Conference on 9th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region organised by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), from September 21-23 in Goa.
• Shiva Chandra, V., Reshma, T. (2022). Urbanization Implications on Local Climate and Groundwater Levels Using Index-Based Techniques. In: Rao, C.M., Patra, K.C., Jhajharia, D., Kumari, S. (eds) Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 176. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4629-4_36
• Shaik Md Imran, Reshma Talari (2021), Mentoring - A Vital Tool for Implementation of National Education Policy at Root Level, National Conclave (Webinar) on Strategies for Implementation of National Education Policy (NEP 2020) in NITs organized by NIT Andhra Pradesh.
• V.Shiva Chandra, T. Reshma, Savitha Chirasmayee (2021), A Review of Higher Education of National Education Policy-2020, National Conclave (Webinar) on Strategies for Implementation of National Education Policy (NEP 2020) in NITs organized by NIT Andhra Pradesh.
• Rajkumar Tammisetti, Talari Reshma, Savitha Chirasmayee (2021) “Spatio-Temporal Variation of Interception in an agricultural watershed- Tadepalligudem, West Godavari, India”, 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2021), Organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology during 23 – 25 December 2021. 
• V.Shiva Chandra, T. Reshma (2021) “Urbanization Implications on Local Climate and Groundwater Levels using Index-Based Techniques”, National Conference on Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering (AMIWRE – 2021), 20 - 21 February 2021, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. (Accepted for Springer Book Series).
• S Chirasmayee, T. Reshma, Rajkumar Tammisetti (2021). Analysis And Monitoring The Health Of The Agriculture Watershed Using Geospatial Technologies. International Conference On Futuristic Technologies, (pp. G347-G354) conducted by IIT Delhi during January 22-24, 2021.
•   Rajkumar Tammisetti, Talari Reshma, Savitha Chirasmayee. (2021). Surface Runoff Estimation For An Agricultural Watershed Using Nrcs Method And Geospatial Techniques. International Conference On Futuristic Technologies, (pp. G330-G338) conducted by IIT Delhi during January 22-24, 2021.
•  Reshma Talari, Vasagiri Siri Chandana, Pratyush Behera, Bharadwaja. (2021) Identification of Groundwater Recharge Potential Zones Using Geospatial Technique. International Conference on Futuristic Technologies (pp. G307-G314)conducted by IIT Delhi during January 22-24, 2021.
•  V.Shiva Chandra, T. Reshma, Rajkumar (2019) “Impact of Urbanization on Water Resource of Eastern Part of Hyderabad using Geomatics, 8th APHW International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Urban Water Management organized by IIT Roorkee: 21-23 November 2019. (Page 49).
• T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap, V. Agilan (2014), “Optimization of Manning ‘s Roughness Coefficients for a watershed using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm”, International Conference on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Water Resources Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad: 28-29 December.
•  T. S. Veena, K. Venkata Reddy, T. Reshma (2014), “Simulation and analysis of Nonpoint Source Pollution in USDA-ARS Experimental watershed using advanced SWAT methods”, International Conference on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Water Resources Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad: 28-29 December.
•  T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap (2013), “Optimum watershed parameters search for runoff simulation using geospatial data based HEC-GeoHMS model” ISG National Symposium, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.
•  T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy and Deva Pratap (2012) “Simulation of Sub-Daily Runoff for an Indian Watershed Using SWAT Model” 2012 International SWAT Conference & Workshop- New Delhi, India on July 16-20.
•   K. Venkata Reddy, Deva Pratap, T. Reshma and V. Revanth (2012) “Application of WAT model in runoff simulation of DMIP-2 watersheds” 2012 International SWAT Conference & Workshop-New Delhi, India on July,16-20.
•  T. Reshma, K. Venkata Reddy and Deva Pratap (2011) “Simulation of runoff of a watershed using ArcSWAT model” International Conference on Spatial Technologies for Rural Development/Watershed Development, Andhra Pradesh Geographical Society.

INSTITUTE AND DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES:

•  Presently, I am holding an administrative position, as a Chief Vigilance officer (Part Time ) and Deputy Chief Warden for Girl's Hostels of NIT Andhra Pradesh, Tadepalligudem.

•  I held the position of Head of the Civil Engineering  Department  from October, 2023-2025.  I was a Faculty Coordinator of Taskforce student Club and was also a member of Women's Protection Cell at NIT Andhra Pradesh.

• I held the position of Warden and also a Associate Dean, Student Welfare at NIT Andhra Pradesh.
• I held the position of Prof in charge of R&D for the Department of Civil Engineering and also headed the Research Group for Environmental Engineering, Water Resources, and Geospatial Technologies group (EEWRGT) at KL University. In this capacity, I motivated both the faculty and students to publish their research in reputed journals and encouraged them to write research projects and internal funding projects. I helped the faculty members and scholars in their preparation of proposals for sponsored projects and also reviewed the progress of student projects. I have the experience of conducting seminars, workshops, and conferences at the national level.
• Besides, I was the co-convenor for the KLU Green Team, and I coordinated and assisted the external consultants from the industry in solid waste management and made KL University a green university with proper waste management.
• I was a member of the organizing committee of World Space Week 2017 celebrations which were scheduled from 7^th to 9^th October 2017 in K L University premises.

SUBJECT HANDLED:

•  I have dealt with core courses like Engineering Hydrology and Irrigation Engineering for 3^rd years and elective courses viz. Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems for 2^nd & 4th-year students of the Department of Civil Engineering.
• At KL University I taught core courses like Fluid Mechanics, and Water Resources Engineering, and handled laboratories for Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, and Hydraulic Machines laboratory. I took open elective courses like Remote Sensing and GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modelling for UG Students. I had the opportunity to teach core and elective courses like Photogrammetry, Geographical Information Systems, Digital Image Processing with laboratory, and Urban Water Management for PG students.
• As a research scholar at NIT Warangal, I taught Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to postgraduate students and assisted the Digital Image Processing and GIS labs for master students and Building Drawing using AutoCAD for UG students.