D Nagesh Kumar | Indian Institute of Science (original) (raw)

Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar is working in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, since May 2002. He is currently holding Prof Satish Dhawan Chair Professor position in IISc. He worked as Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc from May 2014 to Jan 2020. Earlier he worked in IIT, Kharagpur (1994-2002) and NRSC, Hyderabad (1992-1994). He obtained Ph.D (Engg) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1992. He visited Utah State University, USA in 1999 for 6 months on BOYSCAST fellowship. He worked as Visiting Professor in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France, in 2012.

His research interests include Climate Hydrology, Water Resources Systems, Climate Change Impact on Water Resources, ANN, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy logic, MCDM and Remote Sensing & GIS applications in Water Resources Engineering.

He has published more than 200 papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. He has co-authored six text books including, “Multicriterion Analysis in Engineering and Management” published by PHI, New Delhi and “Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrologic Modeling” published by Cambridge University Press, U.K. and “Hydroclimatic Teleconnection: Indian Perspective” published by Scholars' Press, Germany.

He is an Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engg. He received the best associate editor award for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering for the year 2014. He is in the Editorial Board of Open Hydrology Journal and Journal of Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. He has been reviewer for more than 80 international journals including Water Resources Research and Journal of Hydrology. He received IBM faculty award for the year 2012 for his outstanding research in the field of modeling hydrologic extremes using microwave remote sensing.

He was a former member, Working Group on Climate Change, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), Spain.

He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Society for Hydraulics. He is a member of the AGU, IAHR, ASCE, IAHS (UK), IS-MCDM (USA) and Indian Society of Remote Sensing.
Address: Dept of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, India

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