Hydrology | Food-Energy-Water Nexus | Water Resources Management | Droughts | Flow Alteration
Hemant Kumar
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India
My research at IIT Roorkee focuses on developing tools to study the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus (link) focussing especially on role groundwater.
Previously, I worked with Dr. Sankar Arumugam as a PhD student in the Climate, Hydrology and Water Resources: Modeling and Synthesis group (CHWR) at North Carolina State University. Previously, I have worked with Dr. Dhanya C T at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India on non-stationary drought analysis and hydrological modeling (link). I completed my master's on regional drought analysis from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India with Dr. V V Srinivas and bachelor's in civil engineering from IIT Roorkee.
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Education
2023 - Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA
2017 - M.E. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, India
2015 - B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India
Multi-perspective Associated Press article on irrigation and agriculture written by Melina Walling
NCSU news release written by Matt Shipman - New Tool Predicts Crop Yields in the Southeast
A paper on using regional hydroeconomic optimization modeling framework to understand the food-energy-water nexus.
A paper on new alteration index for complex river networks to quantify time-varying degree of regulation.
A paper on quantifying dam-induced fluctuations in streamflow frequencies across the Colorado River Basin using wavelet analysis.
A paper on new framework for drought index incorporating short and long-term temporal dynamics of precipitation.
A paper on how does flow alteration propagate across a highly regulated basin.