Research Professor
Bio Summary
Dr. Panday has 35 years of experience in directing, managing, developing, troubleshooting, and reviewing flow and transport models for subsurface contamination / remediation evaluations, groundwater/ surface-water interactions, and water resource management. He has worked on hydrologic and hydrogeologic modeling projects spanning a wide range of schedules and budgets. He has developed state-of-the-art water resource modeling software and has been involved with the latest USGS MODFLOW suite of codes. Dr. Panday is also a Visiting Research Professor at University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Dr. Panday is the 2015 recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award, presented by the National Ground Water Association for major science or engineering contributions to the groundwater industry through research, technical papers, teaching, and practical applications. He was also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2017 for the development of computer code for solving complex groundwater problems. He is also the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Groundwater Resources Association for his contribution towards analyzing complex groundwater problems.
