Dr. D. Nagesh Kumar received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, in 1992.
He has been a Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, since May 2002. Presently he is holding the Prof Satish Dhawan Chair Professor position. He was the former Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, during 2014-20. Earlier, he was with the IIT, Kharagpur, India (1994-2002), and National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India (1992-94). He was a Boys cast Fellow with the Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, in 1999 and Visiting Professor in EMSE, St. Etienne, France in 2012. His research interests include climate hydrology, climate change, water resource systems, deep learning, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic, MCDM, and remote sensing & GIS applications in water resource engineering. He has supervised 10 Post-Docs (1 in progress) and 22 PhDs (7 in progress). He is the co-author of 8 textbooks and published more than 216 papers including 128 in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing, UK, and Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. He is the recipient of the IBM Faculty Award for his outstanding contributions in modeling hydrologic extremes using microwave remote sensing.

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