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D Nagesh Kumar

Also known as: Kumar D Nagesh, Kumar DN, Nagesh Kumar Dasika

Indian Institute of Science, Purdue University West Lafayette, Anna University Chennai, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5294-8501
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Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar is working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, since May 2002. He is on sabbatical from IISc during 2024-25 and working as Curtis Visiting Professor at the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. He is a Fellow of all the three science academies of India viz., Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA) and National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Earlier he worked in IIT, Kharagpur and NRSC, Hyderabad. His research interests include Climate Hydrology, Water Resources Systems, ANN, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy logic, MCDM and Remote Sensing & GIS applications in water resources engineering. He has co-authored two text books titled “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. He has supervised 10 Post-Docs (1 in progress) and 22 PhDs (7 in progress). He is the co-author of 8 books and published more than 225 papers including 136 in peer reviewed journals. He has received funding support of more than Rs. 35 crores for sponsored research. He is the Editor in Chief of Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing, UK and Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. He is the recipient of IBM Faculty Award for his outstanding contributions in modelling hydrologic extremes using microwave remote sensing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. (Homepage: http://civil.iisc.ernet.in/~nagesh/)

Employment

  • Purdue University West Lafayette Visiting Professor
    2024 - 2025
  • Indian Institute of Science Prof. Sathish Dhawan Chair Professor
    2018 - 2021
  • Indian Institute of Science Chairman
    2014 - 2020
  • Indian Institute of Science Professor
    2008 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Associate Professor
    1994 - 2002
  • National Remote Sensing Centre Scientist
    1992 - 1994

Education

  • Indian Institute of Science Ph D
    1987 - 1992
  • Anna University Chennai M E
    1985 - 1987

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Publications (141)