Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
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Dr. Ashes Banerjee

Joined Institute on : 15-Sep-2025

  • Assistant Professor
  • Civil and Evn Engineering
  • Institute Post Doctoral Fellow (IIT Guwahati), PhD (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad),
Contact Address

Room No: 210, Department of Civil land Environmental Engineering, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, 835215

West Bengal

  • Phone Office - +91-8877801831
  • Phone Residence - NA
  • Email - ashes742@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 4 Years

Research : 5 Years
Professional Background
  1. Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Swami Vivekananda University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (15.05.2023-27.08.2025).
  1. Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Alliance college of Engineering and Design, Alliance University, Anekal, Karnataka 562106, India (02.08.2021- 29.04.2023).
  1. Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (6th January 2020-20th July 2021) at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
  1.  Project Associate (October 2019- January 2020) under the project entitled “Preparation of Master Plan – 2030 for Dhanbad Municipal Corporation”, in the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad.
Research Areas

Modeling of flow through porous media; Application of AI/ML for Porous media flow and groundwater quality assessment; social hydrology and basin-scale water resources; Flood damage assessment and management.
Award and Honours
  1. Secured Grade ‘A’ (highest grade) DST's Geospatial Capacity Building (Level 1 and level 2 ) Program sponsored by DST, Govt. of India.
  2.  Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research
  3. Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
  4. Best paper award from ICWEES organized by AISCTE University and Texas A&M University in Bhopal, March 2016.
Publications
Publication Year 2025
  • Subodh Shrivastava, Ashes Banerjee, Ashwin Singh, Mritunjay Kumar Singh, Srinivas Pasupuleti;Copula-based dependency modelling of hydraulic properties for non-linear filtration through porous media.Powder Technology;460 121069;4.5;2025
  • Shrivastava, Subodh, Ashes Banerjee, Vishwas N Khatri, Srinivas Pasupuleti,;Evaluating the Impact of Core Position and Material on Seepage and Stability of Rockfill dam Through Experimental and Numerical analysis.Acta Geophysica;2025 ;2.054;2025
  • Purushottam Agrawal, Jitendra Sinha, Nilima Jangre, Fanesh Kumar, Alok Sinha, Ashwin Singh, Ashes Banerjee, Akella Satya Venkatesh, and Srinivas Pasupuleti;Developing an efficient and optimized irrigation plan under varying water-supply regimes..Ain Shams Engineering Journal;16 ;6.0;2025
Publication Year 2024
  • Ashes Banerjee, Ayan Chatterjee, Ashwin Singh, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Venkatesh Uddameri;A risk assessment framework utilizing bivariate copula for contaminate monitoring in groundwater,.Environmental Science and Pollution Research;2024 ;4.223;2024
  • Ashes Banerjee, Sunil Priyadarshi, & Samir Kumar;Proposing a Characteristic Length Definition for Flow Characterization in Porous Media: A Methodology for Estimating Hydraulic Radius.Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels,;71 398–403;;2024
Publication Year 2023
  • Prabhakara Chowdary Pathakamuri, V. G. K. Villuri, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Ashes Banerjee and A. S. Venkatesh;A Holistic Approach for Understanding the Status of Water Quality and Causes of Its Deterioration in Drought Prone Area - Kadiri basin in Ananthapuramu district of Andhra Pradesh, India..Environmental Science and Pollution Research;2023 ;4.223;2023
Publication Year 2022
  • Ashes Banerjee, Sarath Chandra K. Jagupilla, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Chandra Sekhara Rao Annavarapu;Alternative Relationships to Enhance the Applicability of Non-linear Filtration Models in Porous Media.Acta Geophysica;2022 ;2.054;2022
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Koushik Mondal, and M. Mousavi Nezhad;Application of data driven machine learning approach for modelling of non-linear filtration through granular porous media.International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer;179 121650;5.584;2022
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Mritunjay Kumar Singh, Dandu Jagan Mohan;Modeling the Influence of Fluid Viscosity and Flow Transition over Non-Linear Filtration through Porous Media.Journal of Earth System Science;130(4) 1-15;1.371;2022
Publication Year 2021
  • Purushottam Agarwal, Alok Sinha, Satish Kumar, Ankit Agarwal, Ashes Banerjee, .., Srinivas Pasupuleti;Exploring Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Groundwater Quality Assessment..Water; 13(9) 1172;3.103;2021
  • Laveti N.V. Satish, Ashes Banerjee, Suresh A. Kartha, Subashisa Dutta;Anthropogenic Influence on Monthly Groundwater Utilization in an Irrigation Dominated Ganga River Sub-Basin..Journal of Hydrology;593  125800;5.72;2021
  • Laveti N.V. Satish, Ashes Banerjee, Suresh A. Kartha, Subashisa Dutta;Impact of Anthropogenic activities on river-aquifer exchange flux in an irrigation dominated Ganga River Sub-Basin.Journal of Hydrology;602 126811;5.72;2021
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Vasant Govind Kumar Villuri, Abhay Kumar Pushkar, Rajesh Nune, Subashisa Dutta;Nonlinear Filtration through Stratified Porous Media: An Experimental Approach to Model the Volumetric Flow Rate and Pressure Drop Relationship.Journal of Porous Media;24 17-30;1.752;2021
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Mritunjay Kumar Singh, Sekhar Chandra Dutta & G. N. Pradeep Kumar;Modeling of Flow through Porous Media over the Complete Flow Regime.Transport in Porous Media;129 (1) 1-23;3.019;2021
Publication Year 2019
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti;Effect of convergent boundaries on post laminar flow through porous media.Powder Technology;342  288-300;5.134;2019
Publication Year 2018
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Mritunjay Kumar Singh & G. N. Pradeep Kumar;An Investigation of Parallel Post-Laminar Flow through Coarse Granular Porous Media with the Wilkins Equation.Energies;11 320;3.004;2018
  • Ashes Banerjee, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Mritunjay Kumar Singh & Kumar, G.N.P;A study on the Wilkins and Forchheimer equations used in coarse granular media flow.Acta Geophysica;66 81-91;2.054;2018
Member of Professional Bodies
  1. Life member of Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH).
  2. Life member of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society (IAWEES).
Current Sponsored Projects
  1. Impact of Pore geometry on flow characteristics in non-linear filtration through porous media
    Scheme: ANRF TARE (Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence)
    Role: PI, Duration: 3 years, Total Amount Sanctioned: 15 Lakhs; Status: Ongoing (2024-)
    Objective: The study intends to understand the impact of pore geometry on flow characteristics in porous media using a well-planned experimental programme in controlled porous packing.
Text and Reference Books
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
  1. Purushottam Agrawal, Srinivas Pasupuleti , Alok Sinha, Ashwin Singh, Ashes Banerjee “A system of automatic operation of canal gate designed with secured casing and motor” Patent No. 202531058176 applied for on 17th June, 2025.
  2. Dr. Ranjan Kumar, Dr. Arnab Das, Dr. Ashes Banerjee, Mr. Saurabh Adhikari "Smart Shredder for E-waste Plastic Processing" (Patent No. 202531040692A), applied for on 28th April 2025 and granted on 2nd May 2025.
  3. Dr. Ashes Banerjee, Dr. Ranjan Kumar, Dr. Arnab Das, and Mr. Saurabh Adhikari, design patent titled “Multipurpose Knife” (Design No. 445535-001). The application was filed on 24th January 2025, and the certificate of registration was issued on 1st May 2025 by the Patent Office, Government of India.