Anupam Kumar Singh

Biography

Prof Dr-Ing Anupam Kumar Singh has more than two decades of academic, research and industry experience, and working as Director of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He has obtained Dr.-Ing. (PhD), MS in Water Engineering both from Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) Germany. He also holds B Tech in Civil Engineering from India and PG Diploma in Urban & Regional Planning from Technical University of Szczecin Poland. Prof Singh has been associated with Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Gandhinagar, Nirma University Ahmedabad, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Colombo Sri Lanka, School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) New Delhi, and Town & Country Planning Department of Government of Madhya Pradesh. Prof Singh has been a member on Academic Council of JKLU Jaipur and PDPU Gandhinagar; Board of Studies of PDPU, Nirma University, RK University and the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Earlier, he has completed ten research projects as Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator/ Team member funded by Government of India, Government of Gujarat, Government of Germany, DFID-UK, ICARDA, UN-FAO and USAID. He has more than seventy publications in peer-reviewed journals, national and international conferences and technical notes. Prof Singh has been Associate Editor of International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Management, and reviewers for Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrologic Science, Journal of Applied Hydrology, Journal of Agro-meteorology, Current Science, Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Journal of Geomatics and few more. Prof Singh has been awarded with Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) Best Engineering College Teacher Award for 2009, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) Sweden’s 2002 Best poster award, Association of Agro-Meteorology (AAM) best paper award for 2008. He has received fellowships from Germany- DAAD and DFG, Switzerland-EPFL, India- GATE and NTE, Poland- NAUKA, and Japan-MEXT during various professional stages. He has conducted several training and capacity building programs funded by World Bank, European Union, Government of India, ISTE and Government of Gujarat for service engineers, industry professionals and academic fraternity. He is serving on Board of ICCSIR, Advisor C4DI and Terra Engineering. He has been Chairman ISG-Jaipur Chapter (2014-16), Vice Chairman (2009-11) & Jt Secretary (2007-09) ISRS Ahmedabad Chapter, Secretary IEEE-GRSS Gujarat Chapter (2013-14), Member WMF-IEI (2012-14), Core committee on Indo-German Youth Forum Karlsruhe (1999-2002). He is the life member of IEI, ISTE, IAHS, AHI, AAM, IMS, ISG and ISRS.

Research Interest

His areas of research interest are Water and environmental engineering, Water quality analysis, building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV), and Satellite remote sensing and GIS.