Dr. Harshad Rameshwar Parate

• Surface water hydrology
• Vadose zone hydrology
• Groundwater hydrology
• Remote sensing and GIS
• Air pollution and control
• Solid waste management
• Water resources engineering
• Concrete technology

• Mentored the team that reached finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020

National Conference Papers

• Tiwari V., Parate H. R., Patil N. P. (2020) Strength and durability studies of waste nylon cable ties Concrete. First International Conference on Advances in Physical Sciences and Materials (ICAPSM2020) Coimbatore, India
• Shekar T., Patil N. P., Parate H. R. (2020) Selection and Implementation of Green Materials for the Sustainable Development of a Residential Layout. Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing (ICRAMM2020), Erode, India
• Jayanthi. G., Vidhya C.V., Harshad R. Parate, M. S. Mohan Kumar, Jean-Christophe Maréchal (2008). Effect of early summer monsoon showers on vadose zone of a forested watershed, , National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment, HYDRO 2008, MNIT Jaipur

International Conference Papers

• Descloitres, M., Ruiz, L., Sekhar, M., Legchenko, A., Bost, A., Mohan Reddy, M., Parate, H. (2006). MRS and ERT for localizing temporary recharge in heterogeneous aquifer. International Workshop on MRS, Madrid
• Furian, S., Barbiero, L., Kumar, C., Parate, H., Mohan Kumar, M.S. (2006). Soil-Erosion relationships in a forested watershed of South India. International Symposium of Geomorphology, Goias, Brazil
• Braun, J.J., Riotte, J., Ruiz, L., Barbiero, L., Descloitres, M., Mohan Kumar, M.S., Sekhar, M., Bost, A., Dupre, B., Feydier, R., Lacaux Galy, C., Godderis, Y., Labat, D., Lagane, C., Fritsch, E., Camerlynck, C., Murari, V., Parate, H., Chaudhuri, A., Veena, S. (2005). Etude intégrée du bassin de la rivière Kabini (Inde du Sud) Influence des facteurs environnementaux sur les processus de fractionnement et les transferts hydro-biogéochimiques. Colloquium ECCO-PNRH, Toulouse, France

National Journal Papers

• Beenish, Yateen Lokesh, Harshad R Parate, HM Rajashekhar Swamy (2022). Study on Effect of Porous Asphalt Pavements on Flood Mitigation for Bangalore City. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation, Vol 3, Issue 2, 38-46.
• Shekar, T., Patil, N.N., Parate, H.R. (2021). Selection and implementation of green materials for the sustainable development of a residential layout, Materials Today: Proceedings, 42 (2), pp. 1077–1083
• Seema Bheemanaik, Harshad R. Parate, N. S. Chandanshree and Nikhil T. R (2021). A Review Paper on Assessment of Conflict Areas Using VISSIM and Surrogate Safety Assessment 01 Model (SSAM). RUAS-SASTech Journal, Vol 19
• Tiwari V., Parate H. R., Patil N. P. (2020) Strength and durability studies of waste nylon cable ties Concrete. First International Conference on Advances in Physical Sciences and Materials, Journal of Physics: conference series, 1706(1), 012127
• Harshad R Parate, VH Akshayakumar, Harshit Hegde (2020). Comparative risk analysis of construction sectors: A case study. RUAS-SASTech Journal, Vol 18
• Chetan Kumar B., Akshayakumar V. H., Harshad R. Parate (2019). Impact of Prefabrication Technology on Profitability in Construction Industry. RUAS-SASTech Journal, Vol 18
• Akshayakumar V. H., Rajashekhar Swamy H. M., Harshad R. Parate (2016). Project Performance in Real Time Construction Industry - A Case Study. International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET). Vol 7, Issue 5, 93 – 102
• Rakesh Tiwari, H I Somashekhar, V R Ramakrishna Parama, Indu K Murthy, M S Mohan Kumar, B K Mohan Kumar, Harshad Parate, Murari Varma, Sumedha Malaviya, Ananya S Rao, Asmita Sengupta, Ruth Kattumuri, N H Ravindranath (2011). MGNREGA for Environmental Service Enhancement and Vulnerability Reduction: Rapid Appraisal in Chitradurga District, Karnataka. Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Vol XLVI no 20, 39 – 47
• Harshad R. Parate, M.S. Mohan Kumar, M. Descloitres, L. Barbiero, L. Ruiz, J.J. Braun, M. Sekhar, C. Kumar (2011). Comparison of resistivity and neutron probe logging for soil moisture monitoring in forested watershed. Current Science, Vol 100, No 9, 1405 – 1412

International Journal Papers

• Riotte, J., Ruiz, L., Audry, S., Baud, B., Bedimo Bedimo, J.-P., Boithias, L., Braun, J.-J., Dupré, B., Duprey, J.-L., Faucheux, M., Lagane, C., Marechal, J.-C., Moger, H., Mohan Kumar, M. S., Parate, H., Ribolzi, O., Rochelle-Newall, E., Sriramulu, B., Varma, M., & Sekhar, M. (2021). The Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS critical zone observatory M-TROPICS dataset III: Hydro-geochemical monitoring of the Mule Hole catchment, south India. Hydrological Processes, 35 (5), e14196.
• Laurent Barbiéro, Harshad R. Parate, Marc Descloitres, Adelphe Bost, Sônia Furian, M.S. Mohan Kumar, C. Kumar, Jean-Jacques Braun (2007). Using a structural approach to identify relationships between soil and erosion in a semi-humid forested area, South India. CATENA – Vol 70, 313-329

• Life member of Association of Structural Rehabilitation (ASTR)
• Life member of Indian Water Works Association (IWWA)

• H. M. Rajashekar Swamy, Harshad R. Parate and S. Mithun “Design of Collapsible Shoring for Multistoried Building Construction”, Indian Patent Application: 201641043352, December 19, 2016