Dr. Deepak Kumar

About

I, Dr. Deepak Kumar, am an experimental physicist and geotechnical researcher with over five years of interdisciplinary research experience in acoustic emission (AE) technology, geohazard monitoring, and slope stability assessment. My doctoral research focused on the design and development of landslide early warning systems using acoustic emission (AE) technology - a multidisciplinary approach integrating geotechnical-geological engineering, multi-sensor slope monitoring, AE technology, and advanced data analytics for real-time geohazard monitoring, detection and mitigation.

Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Delhi Technological University, where I am working on a project on AI-driven analysis of AE data for predicting slope instability. I have designed and deployed indigenous AE sensor systems on landslide-prone Himalayan slopes, optimized active waveguide configurations, and contributed to the development of generalized landslide velocity scales based on AE signal behavior. My work combines geotechnical monitoring, non-destructive testing, and data-driven modeling to support sustainable disaster risk reduction and infrastructure resilience.

Recently, I have been honored with the prestigious STE Young Researcher Award-2024 at National Conference on Environment, Water, Agriculture, Sustainability and Health (EWASH-2024), 13-14 December 2024, for remarkable contributions in the fields of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.

Employment

• Delhi Technological University Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2025 - Present
• Solid State Physics Laboratory Senior Research Fellow
  2020 - 2025
• Panjab University Research Fellow
  2020 - 2020
• Aakash Coaching Institute Physics Faculty
  2019 - 2019
• Rajputana P.G. College, Jaipur, Rajasthan Assistant Professor
  2017 - 2018

Education

• University of Delhi Ph. D. - Doctorate of Philosophy
  2021 - 2025
• Kurukshetra University Master of Science (M. Sc.)
  2015 - 2017
• Chaudhary Devi Lal University Bachelor of Science (Phy, Chm, Mat)
  2012 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• Optimization of Acoustic Emission Timing Parameters for Geological Backfill Media Used for Landslide Prone Slope Monitoring
  Indian Geotechnical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s40098-026-01593-4
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• Optimisation of Acoustic Emission Sensor- Waveguide Assembly for Soil Slope Instability Measurement
  Integrated Ferroelectrics 2025 DOI: 10.1080/10584587.2025.2483641
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• Assessing landslide velocity scales with acoustic emission active waveguides for early warning system
  Natural Hazards 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-025-07316-x
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• Soil Shear Deformation Dynamics Characterized Using Acoustic Emission Active Waveguides for Landslide Early Warning System
  2024 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4995361
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• Analyzing the effects of critical active waveguide parameters on acoustic emission characteristics for soil slope deformation monitoring
  Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10064-024-03857-w
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• Active waveguide deformation dynamics using acoustic emission technology for landslide early warning system
  Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10064-024-03548-6
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• A Potential Landslide Early Warning System Based on Threshold Velocity of 1 mm/min
  IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Systems Science and Engineering (RASSE), Kerala, India, 2023 2023 DOI: 10.1109/rasse60029.2023
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• IoT-Based Landslide Detection System
  Interdisciplinary Research in Technology and Management 2023
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