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Dr. Alice Thomas

Assistant Professor

Employee Code / ID No. 10121091
Qualifications Ph.D.
Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1433-7064
Industry / R & D Experience Teaching Assistant(IIT Bombay) : 8 Years; Research associate (NCESS) : 2 Years
Email ID [email protected]
Alternate E-mail ID [email protected]
Mobile No (Optional) / Intercom Extension No. 174
Areas of Interest / Current Research Grounwater parameter estimation, Hydro climatological studies, Flood modeling, Numerical modelling, Optimization methods
Research, Consultancy, Publication Peer Reviewed Journals
1. Sharma, I., & Thomas, A. (2022). Experimental Evaluation of Internal Erosion Using Groove Erosion Test. International Journal of Geomechanics, 22(6), 04022056. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GM.1943-5622.0002371
2. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., Rastogi, A. K. & Majumder P. (2019). A comparative study in aquifer parameter estimation using MFree point collocation method with evolutionary algorithms, Journal of Hydroinformatics https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2019.105
3. Thomas, A., Majumdar, P., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2018). Simulation optimization model for aquifer parameter estimation using coupled meshfree point collocation method and cat swarm optimization. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 91, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2018.03.004
4. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. and Rastogi, A. (2016). Simulation of Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Confined Aquifer Using a Point Collocation Method Based Meshfree Model. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 8, 534-549. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jwarp.2016.84045
5. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2014). A comparative study of point collocation based MeshFree and finite element methods for groundwater flow simulation. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 20(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2013.840120
International Conference
1. Rahul R, Libin D S, Firdous S, Anwar M & Alice T (2024) Early Flood Monitoring and Forecasting using ANN and HEC-RAS in Meenachil River Basin, Hydro 2024, CWPRS Pune.
2. Joel S, Siddarth B, Simjesh S G, Snehal S, Minu A P & Alice T,Land Use And Land Cover Change Detection Using GIS To Determine The Variation In Hydrological Parameters Of Thiruvananthapuram District, Hydro 2024, CWPRS,Pune
3. Dilsa M1, Greeshma G,S P Balasubramaniam,Sona M J Alice Thomas , Jainet J (2024 ) Impact of Threshold Rainfall on Landslides: A Case study of Kerala, ICCESP, 2024, MARIAN, Thiruvananthapuram, DEC 6 – 8 2024
4. Libin D S, Rahul R, Firdous S, Anwar M, Alice T (2024) A Lag-Based Rainfall Forecasting Using ANN for Meenachil River Basin. ICID 2024, MBCET, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 25th- 27 th Sep.
5. Alice Thomas, K. Sreelash & Micky Mathew Response of groundwater to dry and wet rainfall spells in different climatic zones of India, HYDRO 2023 International 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering, NIT Warangal [ Accepted for book chapter] 6. Thomas, A. & Eldho, T. I., (2021). A review of recent heuristic optimizers in inverse modeling for groundwater flow problems, HYDRO-2020, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, The International Conference on Hydraulics March 26-28, 2021. [Best Presentation Award Winner] 7. Thomas, A. & Eldho, T. I., (2019). Aquifer parameter estimation using meshfree RPCM with evolutionary algorithms. EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 17-20.
8. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2018). A review of recent heuristic optimizers in inverse groundwater modeling. ICWR, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, March 15-17.
9. Thomas, A., Saubhagya, R., & Eldho, T. I. (2015). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using SEAWAT, Proceedings of HYDRO-2015, IIT Roorkee, Dec 17-19.
10. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2015). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using a meshfree method, IAHR Conference, The Hauge, Netherlands, 28 June- 3 July.
11. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2014). Meshfree based simulation of Seawater Intrusion. MTSWRM, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 26-30. [Best Paper Award Winner] 12. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2013). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using a meshfree method, Proceedings of HYDRO-2013, IIT Madras, Dec 4-6.
National Conferences
1. Aswathy M R, Dr Alice Thomas, AI Driven geospatial modelling of Ecosystem services under coupled landuse and climate change dynamics: A Review, National conference on Human AI Collaboration for Entrepreneurship, Buisness transformation and sustainable development, Lourde Matha Institute of Management studies,10 April,2026
2. Sravani P,Alice T & K. Sreelash, Groundwater Storage Variation Corresponding to Varying Rainfall in Various Agro-Climatic Regions of India, Fifth Indian National Groundwater Conference INGWC 2023, IIT Hyderabad, 5-6 Dec 2023
3. Libin D S & Alice T, Phytorid Technology- A waste water remediation technique, Education Enviornment Economy@ 2030 Focusing on the marginilized. , National Conference,Mar Ivanios Vidya Nagar, 13-15th March 2024
4. Firdous S, Sravani P & Alice Thomas, Challenges For Groundwater Monitoring and Solution To Its Depletion- A Review, Fifth Indian National Groundwater Conference INGWC 2023, IIT Hyderabad, 5-6 Dec 2023
5. Thomas, A., Milan, K., & Rastogi, A. K. (2018). Application of Differential Evolution in Inverse groundwater solutions. NFiCE 2018, IIT Bombay, Nov 30-Dec 1.
6. Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2012). A comparison of meshfree method and FEM for groundwater flow simulation, Proceedings of HYDRO-2012, IIT Bombay, Dec 7-8.
7. Thomas, A., & Rastogi, A. K. (2011). A review of ant colony in water resources optimization, Proceedings of National conferences of advances in Civil Engineering, MBCET, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Dec 3, 52-59.
Book Chapters
1. Roy, N., Thomas, A. (2024). Drivers of Human Behavior to Meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Relation With Energy. In: Sreekanth, K.J. (eds) Energy Efficiency Improvements with Emission Abatement for Energy Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9480-5_6
2. Thomas, Alice, K. Sreelash, and Micky Mathew. Response of groundwater to dry and wet rainfall spells in different climatic zones of India. Decontamination of Subsurface Water Resources System using Contemporary Technologies. Elsevier, 2025. 213-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-26639-3.00017-XThomas, A., Eldho, T. I., Rastogi, A. K. & Majumder P. (2019). A comparative study in aquifer parameter estimation using MFree point collocation method with evolutionary algorithms, Journal of Hydroinformatics https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2019.105
• Thomas, A., Majumdar, P., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2018). Simulation optimization model for aquifer parameter estimation using coupled meshfree point collocation method and cat swarm optimization. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 91, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2018.03.004
• Thomas, A., Eldho, T. and Rastogi, A. (2016). Simulation of Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Confined Aquifer Using a Point Collocation Method Based Meshfree Model. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 8, 534-549. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jwarp.2016.84045
• Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2014). A comparative study of point collocation based MeshFree and finite element methods for groundwater flow simulation. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 20(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2013.840120
International Conferences Thomas, A. & Eldho, T. I., (2021). A review of evolutionary algorithms in inverse modeling for groundwater flow and transport parameter estimation. Hydro 2020, International Conference on hydraulics, water resources and coastal engineering. NIT Rourkela, 26 th to 28 th March 2021. [Best Presentation Award Winner] • Thomas, A. & Eldho, T. I., (2019). Aquifer parameter estimation using meshfree RPCM with evolutionary algorithms. EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 17-20.
• Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2018). A review of recent heuristic optimizers in inverse groundwater modeling. ICWR, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, March 15-17.
• Thomas, A., Saubhagya, R., & Eldho, T. I. (2015). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using SEAWAT, Proceedings of Hydro -2015, IIT Roorkee, Dec 17-19.
• Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2015). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using a meshfree method, IAHR Conference, The Hauge, Netherlands, June 28- July 3.
• Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2014). Meshfree based simulation of Seawater Intrusion. MTSWRM, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 26-30. [Best Paper Award Winner] • Thomas, A., Eldho, T. I., & Rastogi, A. K. (2013). Simulation of sea water intrusion in coastal confined aquifers by using a meshfree method, Proceedings of Hydro -2013, IIT Madras, Dec 4-6.
Ph.D Research Guidance ( Research Scholar, E-mail ID, Research Topic/ Tentative Thesis Tittle) –
Academic / Professional Outreach Activities  Was part of Evaluation panel for the Young Innovators Program 5.0 by Kerala Start up Mission
Membership in Professional bodies/ organizations Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH), European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Community Outreach Activities Thanal activities to Gandhibhavan International Trust , Kripalayam old age home.
Awards / Distinctions / Rank / Other Achievements if any
  • B Tech project guided on the topic DEVELOPING A PROTOTYPE FOR THE DETECTION OF DRIVERS’ DROWSINESS student guided got ASCE ISSR 2022 UG Thesis special mention Won best presentation award in the Hydro International Conference, 2021 held at NIT, Rourkela, during 26th to 28th March 2021.
    Early Career Scientist’s Travel Support (EGU), Vienna, Austria, April,2019
  • Won best paper award for ‘Meshfree based simulation of Seawater Intrusion’ in MTSWRM, conducted at IIT Hyderabad, Dec 26th-30th, 2014.
  • Won best presentation award in the Hydro International Conference, 2021 held at NIT, Rourkela, during 26th to 28th March 2021.
  • Early Career Scientist’s Travel Support (EGU), Vienna, Austria, April,2019
  • Won best paper award for ‘Meshfree based simulation of Seawater Intrusion’ in MTSWRM, conducted at IIT Hyderabad, Dec 26th-30th, 2014.