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 in India as a senior research fellow at IITR, Roorkee, India on a research project 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 14 years. He has taught several core courses like Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machines, Water Resource Engineering etc. as well asadvanced courses like Hydraulic Structures. He has been involved in the research to develop a new approach to increase the discharging characteristics of Labyrinth weirs at AMU, Aligarh. 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 60 papers in international journals with high repute and around 50 papers in various international and national conferences. His research area is multidisciplinary which includes Trench weir, Labyrinth weirs, Sediment management in Trench weirs, Hydropower, Computational hydraulics etc. He is the Fellow Member of various scientific bodies like International Science Community Association, Indian Water Resources Society, Directorate of Environment Science, Institution of Scholars etc.
