Civil Engineering Department

Kumar Hemant

Kumar, Hemant
Assistant Professor
Specialization : Hydraulics Engineering
Room No : 234-B
hemant[at]ce[dot]iitr[dot]ac[dot]in
(M) 8439397365

Areas of Interest

Food-Energy-Water nexus
Sustainable Water Resources Management
Hydroeconomical modeling
Hydrological modeling
Flow alteration and river regulation due to dams
Meteorological and hydrological droughts
Statistical analysis
Machine learning in hydrological modeling
Wavelet analysis
Crop yield modeling

Food-Energy-Water nexus

Sustainable Water Resources Management

Hydroeconomical modeling

Hydrological modeling

Flow alteration and river regulation due to dams

Meteorological and hydrological droughts

Statistical analysis

Machine learning in hydrological modeling

Wavelet analysis

Crop yield modeling

Honors and Awards

Award	Awarding Organisation	Year
Mentored Teaching Fellowhip (MTF)	North Carolina State University, USA	2023
Internship Award	National Science Foundation, USA	2022
Global Change Fellowship	US Geological Survey’s Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center	2020
Sloan Graduate Scholarship	North Carolina State University, USA	2018
Graduate Merit Award	North Carolina State University, USA	2018
Award of Distinction in M.E.	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru	2017
AICTE Postgraduate Scholarship	Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India	2015
Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scholarship	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee	2011

Professional Background

From	To	Designation	Organisation
Mar 2024	Continuing	Assistant Professor	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee
Nov 2017	Jul 2018	Project Research Assistant	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi

Educational Details

Degree	Subject	University	Year
Ph. D.	Civil Engineering (Computing and Systems)	North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA	2023
M. E.	Civil Engineering (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering)	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru	2017
B. Tech.	Civil Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee	2015

Journal Publication

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Hwang, J., Kumar, H., Ruhi, A., Sankarasubramanian, A. and Devineni, N. (2021). Quantifying Dam-Induced Fluctuations in Streamflow Frequencies Across the Colorado River Basin. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1029/2021WR029753

Kumar, H., Hwang, J., Devineni, N. and Sankarasubramanian, A. (2022). Dynamic Flow Alteration Index for Complex River Networks with Cascading Reservoir Systems. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1029/2021WR030491

Ruhi, A., Hwang, J., Devineni, N., Mukhopadhyay, S., Kumar, H., Comte, L., Worland, S. and Sankarasubramanian, A. (2022). How does flow alteration propagate across a large, highly regulated basin? Dam attributes, network context, and implications for biodiversity. Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1029/2021EF002490

Kumar, H., Zhu, T. and Sankarasubramanian, A. (2023). Understanding the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Mixed Irrigation Regimes using a Regional Hydroeconomic Optimization Modeling Framework. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1029/2022WR033691

Vinnarasi, R., Dhanya, C. T. and Kumar, H. (2023). Tracing Time-varying Drought Characteristics through Nonstationary Joint Deficit Index. Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0437.1

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