Ajeeta Shrestha
Graduate Student CIVE-PhD Lincoln Water Resources Engineering-Advisor: Tirthankar Roy University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
Ajeeta Shrestha is a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research focuses on hydrology and water resources management, with an emphasis on socio-hydrology, hydrological extremes, and machine learning applications.
Education
- MS, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University, USA, 2025
- BE, Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2022
Employment History
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, GTA, Jan 2026 – Present
- Auburn University, GTA, Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
- Auburn University, GRA, Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
- Nepal Center for Engineering and Research, Civil Engineer, May 2022 – Dec 2023
Area of Research and Professional Interest
- Hydrology and water resource management
- Socio-hydrology and climate change impacts
- Machine learning and AI applications
- Reinforcement learning and Deep learning methods
Research Experience
- An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for High-resolution Climate Impact Assessment of Coastal River Discharge, NSF, NOAA, Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
- Projected trends in hydro-climatic extremes in small-to-mid-sized watersheds in eastern Nepal based on CMIP6 outputs, IOE, Pulchowk Campus, May 2021 – Apr 2022
Teaching Experience
- GTA for CIVL-5110/6110 Open Channel Hydraulics, Fall 2025
Publications and Presentations
- Shrestha, A., Tian, D., and Dzwonkowski, B. (2025). “Understanding and projecting terrestrial hydroclimate impacts on coastal river discharge using explainable deep learning.” Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington, D.C. Manuscript in preparation. Preprint available at ESS Open Archive, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173939577.73894210/v1.
Shrestha, A., Subedi, B., Shrestha, B., Shrestha, A., Maharjan, A., Bhattarai, P. K., and Pandey, V. P. (2023). “Projected trends in hydro-climatic extremes in small-to-mid-sized