Sucheta Pradhan | Data Analysis | Best Researcher Award

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Ms. Sucheta Pradhan | Data Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Melbourne University | Australia

Sucheta Pradhan is a dedicated researcher currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne, Australia, under the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, where her thesis focuses on “An investigation into Atmospheric Rivers and their potential impact on extreme rainfall and flooding in Australia.” She holds a Master of Technology in Land and Water Resource Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, with an impressive CGPA of 9.34/10, and a Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, where she graduated as a Gold Medalist with a CGPA of 8.76/10. Her research explores climate extremes, hydrology, and atmospheric science, with publications in reputed journals such as the Journal of Hydrology, and manuscripts under review in Weather and Climate Extremes and Communications Earth & Environment. She has presented her work at international forums including the EGU General Assembly (2022, 2025) and AGU Fall Meeting (2021). Alongside her research, she has served as a tutor for several environmental and engineering courses at the University of Melbourne. Sucheta is a national rank holder in the 2020 GATE Examination (AIR 106) and recipient of multiple academic honors, including OUAT Merit Scholarship and postgraduate stipends. She has also completed professional training in Data Analytics with Python (IIT Roorkee), Remote Sensing and GIS, and industrial internships in solar systems and agricultural machinery. Her academic journey reflects a strong commitment to advancing research on climate-induced hydrological risks and sustainable environmental solutions.

Profiles: Scopus | Orcid | Google Scholar

Featured Publications

"Atmospheric rivers and Australian precipitation: Impact of detection algorithm choice," S Pradhan, C Wasko, MC Peel, Journal of Hydrology, 2025

"Atmospheric Rivers intensify extreme precipitation and flooding across Australia," S Pradhan, C Wasko, MC Peel, Weather and Climate Extremes, 2025

"Global scale impact of atmospheric rivers on the severity of flooding", MP Sucheta Pradhan, Conrad Wasko EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2025

"Multivariate Approach Reveals a Higher Likelihood of Compound Heat Stress-Pluvial Floods in Urban India", P Ganguli, S Pradhan, Authorea Preprints, 2022

"Multivariate Approach Reveals a Higher Likelihood of Compound Warm-wet Spells in Urban India" S Pradhan, P Ganguli, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2022

Ali Nikoutadbir | Intelligent Transportation Systems | Young Researcher Award

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Mr. Ali Nikoutadbir | Intelligent Transportation Systems | Young Researcher Award

Tarbiat Modares University Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Iran

Ali Nikoutadbir is a motivated and results-driven MSc graduate in Electrical Engineering with over six years of research experience in securing cyber-physical systems (CPS), particularly focusing on multi-agent systems and intelligent transportation networks. His expertise lies in developing innovative graph-theoretic and optimization-based algorithms to tackle challenges in distributed coordination control, event-triggered control, and the resilience of industrial CPS. As a Research Assistant at the Control System Science Lab, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (2020–2023), he designed and implemented a novel secure event-triggered control framework for vehicular platoons to counter dual deception attacks, including false data injection and global manipulation. He also developed static and dynamic event-triggering schemes ensuring secure consensus under stringent attack constraints and introduced a topology-switching strategy based on Schur stability to enhance system resilience. His theoretical advancements were validated through extensive MATLAB/Simulink simulations. Ali’s published work, including “Secure event-triggered control for vehicle platooning against dual deception attacks,” forms the foundation of his contributions to CPS security. His research expertise encompasses securing multi-agent networks against deception attacks using graph-theoretic and optimization-based methodologies, stability analysis, and end-to-end system modeling, design, and validation.

Profiles: Google Scholar

Featured Publications

"Secure event-triggered control for vehicle platooning in the presence of modification attacks"

"Secure event-triggered control for vehicle platooning against dual deception attacks"

"Estimation of the error caused by the vibration of the radar in the SAR radar aperture using the analytical condition empirical method"