Dr. Sanjeev Kumar is presently working as Professor in the department of Civil Engineering at the Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, Dehradun, India. He received the Diploma in Engineering (Civil Engg.) degree in 2000, B. Tech (Civil Engg.) degree in 2004 and M. Tech (Hydraulic Engineering) in 2006 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India and Ph.D. (Civil Engg.) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in 2012.
He worked as a senior research fellow at IITR, Roorkee, India on a research project entitled “Flow Characteristics of Trench Weir for Hydropower Intake” sponsored by Bureau of Technical Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Education), Govt. of India, New Delhi for around 02 years and as a faculty member for around 16 years. He has taught several core courses like Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machines, Highway Engineering etc. as well as advanced courses like Hydropower Engineering and Hydraulic Structures.
He has been involved in the research to develop a new approach to increase the discharging characteristics of Labyrinth weirs. He made a novel pioneer research in the area of investigation of flow over Trench weirs with flat bars and developed a design methodology for rational design of Trench weirs. He has published around 100 papers in international journals with high repute and many more in various international and national conferences. He has 01 copyright and 03 granted paptent in his name. His research area is multidisciplinary which includes Trench weir, Labyrinth weirs, Sediment management in Trench weirs, Hydropower, Computational hydraulics, sustainable materials etc.
Research Area
- Water Resources, Hydraulic Structures and Sustainability
Awards
- Distinguish Faculty Award by Uttarakhand State Science and Technology (UCOST), Dehradun in June 2022.
- Best Paper Award for the research paper entitled, “Statistical Comparison of Simple and Machine Learning based Land Use and Land Cover Classification” in International conference on Recent Advancement Infrastructural Development, Water Management & Climate Change (IC-RAIWC-2022), G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur.
- National Education Excellence Acheivers Award by Navbharat Rashtriya Gyanpeeth, Pune, Maharashtra.
- Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Certificate of Merit Award by Sikshak Kalyaan Foundation (AICTE Approved) on 22nd December, 2021.
- Best Paper Award for the research paper entitled, “An Experimental Study Of Concrete By Different Percentage Of Demolishing Concrete” in International conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD-20), Nagpur
- Best Paper Award for the research paper entitled, “Use of Bagasse Ash as a filler material in soils” in International conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD-20), Nagpur.
- Awarded with Outstanding Research Award 2020 for outstanding contribution to research for the year 2019–2020 by Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun.
- Young Achiever Award 2020 from Institute of Scholars, Bangalore for research in the field of Hydraulic Engineering.
- Research Excellence Award 2020 from Institute of Scholars, Bangalore for research in the field of Hydraulic Engineering
- Academic Excellence (Civil Engineering) of the year 2020 award in International Education Award 2020 from Times Cyber Media.
- Global Faculty Ambassador for Peace award in International Peace Festival 2019.
- Awarded with Outstanding Researcher Award 2018 for meritorious research performance for the year 2015–2018 by Graphic Era University, Dehradun.
- World Championship-2018 award in Environmental Science (Global Warming)
- Research Excellence Award 2015 for meritorious research performance on May 28, 2015 by Graphic Era University, Dehradun.
- MHRD Fellowship for Ph.D. from July 31, 2008, IITR, Roorkee, India.
Professional Membership
- International Science Community Association (ISCA- FM- 165)
- Indian Water Resources Society (LM - 2014-7519)
- Directorate of Environment Science, IASR, (Q- 814406102018SK)
- Institution of Scholars (InSc 20201002)
- Solar Energy Scciety of India (LM/2659/2022)
- Assocham (GEM CP 22/724)