Ankit Barman — Final-Year M.Tech, Environmental Engineering
Guwahati, Assam
Final-year M.Tech student at IIT Roorkee, applying for a funded research post in drinking-water quality to start on graduation in June 2027. First author on an arsenic-removal paper built from 96 column runs, and designed a Rs 2,800 turbidity logger that tracked a lab nephelometer within 6% over 90 days in the field.
Experience
Research Assistant, Water Quality Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee · August 2024 – present
Funded project on arsenic and fluoride in Brahmaputra valley groundwater.
- Ran 96 fixed-bed column experiments across four flow rates, producing the breakthrough curves and isotherm fits behind the 2026 paper.
- Sampled 42 community wells across Kamrup district over three seasons, writing the field QA protocol the group still uses.
- Rebuilt the ICP-MS digestion routine after 14% of samples failed spike recovery; the failure rate fell to under 2% within a month.
- Supervised three B.Tech project students through their column studies, two of whom presented at a national conference.
Site Engineering Intern, Brahmaputra Water Services · May 2023 – July 2023
- Commissioned the chlorine dosing at a 4 MLD treatment plant, holding residual chlorine inside the 0.2 to 1.0 mg/L band across eight weeks.
- Mapped 31 km of distribution main in QGIS from field notes the utility had kept only on paper.
Projects
- Low-cost turbidity logger — An open-hardware logger for village water tanks.
Education
- M.Tech Environmental Engineering · Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee · July 2024 – June 2027
- B.E. Civil Engineering · Assam Engineering College · August 2020 – May 2024
Skills
- Laboratory: ICP-MS, Ion chromatography, UV-Vis spectrophotometry, BOD and COD assays, Fixed-bed column studies
- Modelling and analysis: MATLAB, Python, EPANET, QGIS, Design of experiments
- Field: Groundwater sampling, Chain-of-custody protocols, Sensor deployment, Household surveys