Registrar

Prof. D Nagesh Kumar
Telephone (Direct): 91- 80 – 2360 0757
Secretary to Registrar: 91- 80 – 2293 2444/2440
Fax: 91- 80 – 2360 0757
Email: registrar@iisc.ac.in

D. Nagesh Kumar received PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, in 1992. He has been a faculty member with the Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, since May 2002. He is a Fellow of all the three Science Academies in India. He was holding the Prof Satish Dhawan Chair Professor position in IISc during 2018-21. He was the former Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, during 2014-20. Earlier, he was with IIT, Kharagpur, India (1994-2002), and National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India (1992-94). He was a Boyscast Fellow with the Utah State University, USA, in 1999, Visiting Professor in EMSE, St. Etienne, France in 2012 and Curtis Visiting Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, during 2024-25. 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 15 Post-Docs (3 in progress) and 24 PhDs (4 in progress). He is a co-author of 9 books and has published more than 250 papers including 160 in peer-reviewed journals. He has received funding support of more than Rs. 50 crores through sponsored research projects. He is the Editor in Chief of Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing, UK and Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. He is the recipient of IBM Faculty Award in 2012 for his outstanding contributions in modelling hydrologic extremes using microwave remote sensing.

For more information: http://civil.iisc.ac.in/~nagesh/