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Ashu Jain
PhD (University of Kentucky, USA)
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Research Interest
Rainfall-Runoff Modelling, Surface Hydrology, Stochastic Hydrology, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms.
Office
315 Faculty Building
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Hydraulics and Water Resources
Education
PhD, University of Kentucky, USA, 1994
M.Tech, IIT Bombay, India 1990
B.E., REC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1988
Teaching Area
Advanced Hydrology
Statistics in Hydrology
Artificial Intelligence
Professional Affiliations
Member, Steering Committee, National Guidelines on Urban Flooding, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India.
Member, Technical Committee, Environmental Systems (2004-2007), International Association of Science and Technology for Development, IASTED.
Member, Program Committee, Third Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IICAI2007, December 17-19, 2007, Pune, India.
Selected Publications
Maier, H.R., Jain, A., Dandy, G.C., and Sudheer, K.P. (2010), Methods used for the development of neural networks for the prediction of water resources variables in river systems: Current status and future directions, Env. Mod. Software, 25, 891-909, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.02.003.
Jain, A. and Kumar, S. (2009), Dissection of trained neural network hydrologic model architectures for knowledge extraction, Wat. Resour. Res, 45, W07420, doi:10.1029/2008WR007194.
ain, A. and Srinivasulu, S. (2006), Integrated approach to modelling decomposed flow hydrograph using artificial neural network and conceptual techniques, J. Hydrol., 317(3-4), 291-306.
Jain, A. and Srinivasulu, S. (2004), Development of effective and efficient rainfall-runoff models using integration of deterministic, real-coded genetic algorithms, and artificial neural network techniques, Water Resour. Res., 40(4), W04302, doi:10.1029/2003WR002355.
Jain, A., Sudheer, K.P., and Srinivasulu, S. (2004), Identification of physical processes inherent in artificial neural network rainfall runoff models, Hydrol. Processes, 118(3), 571-581.
Awards & Fellowships
Awarded Endeavour Executive Award 2009 by Ministry of Education, Australia
Awarded International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM)Fellowship 2008 to visit The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Awarded Royal Society Fellowship 2005-06 to visit The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Awarded Best Discussion Paper Award 2005 by ASCE
Fellow of the Indian Water Resources Society and Indian Society for Hydraulics
Research Group
Vikash Kumar Vidyarthi
Professional Experience
Dec 2010 - Present: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
Dec 2005 - Nov 2010: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
May 2009 - Jul 2009 & May 2008 - Jul 2008: Visiting Professor, School of Civil, Environmental, and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia
Feb 2006 - Jul 2006: Visiting Research Professor, School of Geography; University of Leeds, UK
Dec 1997 - Nov 2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India