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Dr. PRASHANT KUMAR

Principal Scientist, Business Development Group

Brief Profile:
Dr. Prashant Kumar is working as a Scientist in Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, which is a national laboratory under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, since Nov 2012. He is also an Honorary Assistant Professor in Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR) - an institute of national importance and a meta university under CSIR. His research areas are Image Processing, Soft Computing Techniques, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Mapping, Agri-instrumentation, Water Resource Management.

Current Work Area

• Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment
• Multi Criteria Decision Analysis
• Water Resource Management
• Agri-Instrumentation
• Precision Farming

Qualification

• PhD (2012- 2018), Faculty of Engineering Sciences, AcSIR-CSIO Chandigarh (in association with ISRO- IIRS Dehradun)
• MTech (2010-2012), Advanced Instrumentation Engineering, AcSIR-CSIO Chandigarh
• BTech (2005-2009), Computer Science & Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka

Certification
• Introduction to Groundwater Modelling using FEFLOW by DHI India, New Delhi in December 2014
• Hands on Advanced Instruments of Water Quality Testing” during 2-6 Dec. 2013 at NIH, Roorkee
• Microwave Remote Sensing with RISAT1 by National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad in September 2013
• .NET Certification by STEP-IIT Roorkee in June 2007

R&D Interest

• Water Resource Management
• Decision Analysis
• Soft Computing Techniques
• Image Processing
• Hyperspectral Imaging

Research Publications

1. K PRITI, KUMAR PRASHANT, SHAKYA KAUSHLESH SINGH, KIRLAS MARIOS C., TIWARI KAMAL KANT. Understanding the intertwined nature of rising multiple risks in modern agriculture and food system. Environment Development and Sustainability. 06-08-2023, ,
2. K PRITI, SHAKYA KAUSHLESH SINGH, KUMAR PRASHANT. Selection of statistical technique for imputation of single site-univariate and multisite–multivariate methods for particulate pollutants time series data with long gaps and high missing percentage. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23-05-2023, 30, 75469–75488
3. K PRITI, KUMAR PRASHANT. A critical evaluation of air quality index models (1960–2021). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 01-04-2022, 194, 324
4. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Multi-criteria evaluation of hydro-geological and anthropogenic parameters for the groundwater vulnerability assessment. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 01-11-2017, ,
5. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Groundwater: a regional resource and a regional governance. Environment Development and Sustainability. 28-02-2017, , 1-19
6. KARKRA RASHMI, KUMAR PRASHANT, BANSOD B S, BAGCHI SUDESHNA, DEVI POOJA, KRISHNA C RAMA. Classification of heavy metal ions present in multi-frequency multi-electrode potable water data using evolutionary algorithm. Applied Water Science. 24-12-2016, 6(22), 1-11
7. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Assessment of the effectiveness of DRASTIC in predicting the vulnerability of groundwater to contamination: a case study from Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab, India. Environmental Earth Science. 02-05-2016, 17(153),
8. KUMAR PRASHANT, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, GHANSHYAM C. Index-based groundwater vulnerability mapping models using hydrogeological settings: A critical evaluation. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 02-02-2015, 51, 38-49
9. KUMAR PRASHANT, BHONDEKAR AMOL P, KAPUR PAWAN. Measurement of changes in glacier extent in the Rimo glacier, a sub-range of the Karakoram Range, determined from Landsat imagery . Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 01-01-2014, 26(1), 121–130
10. KUMAR PRASHANT, BHONDEKAR AMOL P, KAPUR PAWAN. Modelling and Estimation of Spatiotemporal Surface Dynamics Applied to a Middle Himalayan Region. International Journal of Computer Applications. 01-09-2012, 54(7), 17-24

1. K PRITI, KUMAR PRASHANT, SHAKYA KAUSHLESH SINGH, KIRLAS MARIOS C., TIWARI KAMAL KANT. Understanding the intertwined nature of rising multiple risks in modern agriculture and food system. Environment Development and Sustainability. 06-08-2023, ,

2. K PRITI, SHAKYA KAUSHLESH SINGH, KUMAR PRASHANT. Selection of statistical technique for imputation of single site-univariate and multisite–multivariate methods for particulate pollutants time series data with long gaps and high missing percentage. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23-05-2023, 30, 75469–75488

3. K PRITI, KUMAR PRASHANT. A critical evaluation of air quality index models (1960–2021). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 01-04-2022, 194, 324

4. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Multi-criteria evaluation of hydro-geological and anthropogenic parameters for the groundwater vulnerability assessment. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 01-11-2017, ,

5. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Groundwater: a regional resource and a regional governance. Environment Development and Sustainability. 28-02-2017, , 1-19

6. KARKRA RASHMI, KUMAR PRASHANT, BANSOD B S, BAGCHI SUDESHNA, DEVI POOJA, KRISHNA C RAMA. Classification of heavy metal ions present in multi-frequency multi-electrode potable water data using evolutionary algorithm. Applied Water Science. 24-12-2016, 6(22), 1-11

7. KUMAR PRASHANT, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR. Assessment of the effectiveness of DRASTIC in predicting the vulnerability of groundwater to contamination: a case study from Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab, India. Environmental Earth Science. 02-05-2016, 17(153),

8. KUMAR PRASHANT, BANSOD B S, DEBNATH SANJIT KUMAR, THAKUR PRAVEEN KUMAR, GHANSHYAM C. Index-based groundwater vulnerability mapping models using hydrogeological settings: A critical evaluation. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 02-02-2015, 51, 38-49

9. KUMAR PRASHANT, BHONDEKAR AMOL P, KAPUR PAWAN. Measurement of changes in glacier extent in the Rimo glacier, a sub-range of the Karakoram Range, determined from Landsat imagery . Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 01-01-2014, 26(1), 121–130

10. KUMAR PRASHANT, BHONDEKAR AMOL P, KAPUR PAWAN. Modelling and Estimation of Spatiotemporal Surface Dynamics Applied to a Middle Himalayan Region. International Journal of Computer Applications. 01-09-2012, 54(7), 17-24

Patents

Patent(s) Filed
1. CANNULATED AVASCULAR NECROSIS (AVN) SOLID-LATTICE INTEGRATED FEMUR IMPLANT Country Filed: INDIA Application Number: 202111061665 Date of Filing: 29-12-2021 Inventor(s): MEENA VIJAY KUMAR, PANCHAL TARUN, SEN RAMESH, KUMAR PRASHANT, BHARDWAJ RAHUL

Patent(s) Filed

1. CANNULATED AVASCULAR NECROSIS (AVN) SOLID-LATTICE INTEGRATED FEMUR IMPLANT
Country Filed: INDIA
Application Number: 202111061665 Date of Filing: 29-12-2021
Inventor(s): MEENA VIJAY KUMAR, PANCHAL TARUN, SEN RAMESH, KUMAR PRASHANT, BHARDWAJ RAHUL

Significant recognition: Awards, Honours and Fellowships

• Elsevier Recognized Reviewer award for the year 2019 in recognition of the reviews made for Environmental Research (A Multidisciplinary Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Public Health).
•Elsevier Recognized Reviewer award of year 2019 in recognition of the reviews made for Journal Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.
• Elsevier Recognized Reviewer award of year 2018 in recognition of the reviews made for Journal of Building Engineering.
• Media Coverage: Groundwater Depletion in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab: A Case Study, Express Water Magazine, May 2018, Pages: 54-55.
• Elsevier Recognized Reviewer award of year 2017 in recognition of the review made for the journal Groundwater for Sustainable Development.
• Outstanding Reviewer Award 2017 from Ecological Indicators and Groundwater for Sustainable Development for writing critical reviews of several research papers.
• Honorary Assistant Professor to Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (an institute of national importance) (April 4, 2014 - Present)
• Recipient of PGRPE Fellowship for M.Tech, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (10 August 2010 – 21 November 2012)
• Runners up in “TECHTATVA 2007-Code Bytes” (a national level technical event), Manipal Institute of Technology, September 2007

Other Information

• M.Tech Thesis Supervised - 8
• B.Tech Thesis Supervised – 5

Technology (Developed/Transfered/Commercialised) / Software Applications, Algorithms designed/developed/deployed and implemented

• Optimisation of hydro-geological parameters based on Multi-criteria evaluation
• Landslide vulnerability assessment using image processing

Project(s) Ongoing

Project(s) Completed

Contact

Email:

prashantkumar[at]csio[dot]res[dot]in

Telephone:

01722672425

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