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Ph.D. Student Hemant Kumar Climate, Hydrology and Water Resources: Modeling Phone: (+1) 9195224009 and Synthesis Group (CHWR) Email: [email protected] Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental hkumar.wordpress.ncsu.edu Engineering, North Carolina State University
AREAS OF INTEREST Food-Energy-Water Nexus; hydroeconomic modeling; hydrological modeling; drought analysis
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Year Educational Qualifications Institution CGPA Aug 2018 - North Carolina State Ph.D. in Civil Engineering 4.0 / 4 Present University, Raleigh, USA Jul 2015 - Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science 7.1 / 8 Jun 2017 Major: Water Resources Engineering (IISc) Bengaluru, India Jul 2011 - Bachelor of Technology Indian Institute of Technology 6.9 / 10 Jun 2015 Major: Civil Engineering (IIT) Roorkee, India
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Hydroeconomic model for efficient water allocation in Flint River Basin, USA North Carolina State University, United States Graduate Research Assistant (Aug 2019 - Present) Guide: Prof. Sankar Arumugam
Modeling surface and ground water usages with in the Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) framework. Multiobjective optimization to understand regional profits, greenhouse gas emissions, groundwater withdrawals for various crop portfolios.
Hierarchical model for crop yield estimation across CONUS North Carolina State University, United States Graduate Research Assistant (Aug 2018 - July 2019) Guide: Prof. Sankar Arumugam
Identification of key predictors for estimation of crop yield per unit area. Using variable intercept and variable intercept and slope type hierarchical models to model multi-scale spatial information.
Copula-Based Non-Stationary Joint Deficit Index for Drought Characterization Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Research Assistant (Nov 2017 - July 2018) Guide: Prof. Dhanya C. T.
Incorporating non-stationarity into Severity-Duration-Frequency curves using time sliding window approach, copulas and Bayesian analysis.
Calibration of semi-distributed hydrological VIC model for Upper Ganga Basin, India Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Research Assistant (Nov 2017 - July 2018) Guide: Prof. Dhanya C. T.
Calibration and validation of Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model for Upper Ganga catchment. Quantifying the contribution of land use and climate in streamflow. Page 2 of 2
Regional Analysis of Meteorological Droughts over India Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Master’s Thesis (May 2016 - Jun 2017) Guide: Prof. V. V. Srinivas
Identified optimal partitions using dynamic fuzzy c-means (DFCM) clustering SPI and SPAI at various timescales using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Precipitation Anomaly Index. Verified homogeneity of delineated regions using non-parametric Anderson-Darling Test. Constructed severity - areal extent - frequency (SAF) curves for all homogeneous regions.
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES The role of climate on crop yield per unit area across the contiguous United States, Hemant Kumar, Sankar Arumugam at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, 9-13 Dec. [Presentation number GC31C-08] - Presented
Copula-Based Non-Stationary Joint Deficit Index for Drought Characterization, Dhanya C T, Vinnarasi Rajendran, Hemant Kumar at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington D.C., 10-14 Dec. [Poster number H51I-1417] - Presented
Reliability Assessment and Design of Bangalore Storm Water Drain Networks using Fuzzy Network Reliability Approach, R. L. Gouri, V.V. Srinivas, Swapan Kumar Masanta, K.G. Kiran, Hemant Kumar, S. R. Chavan, Kiran.K.G, in HYDRO (21st International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engg.), Pune, India Dec 8- 10, 2016 - Presented
EXAMS UNDERTAKEN Graduate Record Examination (GRE) 331 / 340 ( V 161, Q 170, AW 4.0) Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) 108 / 120 ( R 30, L 28, S 20, W 30) Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit (SPEAK) 48 / 60
COURSES CREDITED Energy and Climate Engineering Hydrology Fundamentals of Microeconomics High Performance Computing Modeling and Analysis of civil engineering systems Applied Bayesian Analysis Computational Fluid Dynamics Urban Hydrology Mathematical Methods in Climate Science Applied Statistics and Probability
COMPUTER SKILLS Packages: ESRI ArcGIS, EPA SWMM, QGIS, VIC Computer languages: Matlab, R, Python
WORKSHOPS GIAN course on Remote Sensing (RS) of Soil Moisture, IIT Delhi, India (Feb 2018) Course Instructor: Dr. Narendra N Das, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) One-week course included an introduction to microwave RS, SMAP active - passive algorithm, error characterization, data assimilation - ensemble Kalman filter, performance of soil moisture products
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS Sloan Graduate Scholarship and supplemental Graduate Merit Award for Ph.D. in Civil Engineering by Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at NCSU (Aug 2018) Award of Distinction in Master of Engineering for outstanding thesis and course work. (Jun 2017) Prestigious AICTE Postgraduate Scholarship for Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. (Jul 2015)