Praveen Kumar
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
United States of America
Biography
Praveen Kumar holds a B.Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 1987), M.S. (Iowa State University 1989), and Ph.D. (University of Minnesota 1993), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1995. Prior to joining University of Illinois, he was a research scientist (January 1993 to July 1995) at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and Hydrologic Sciences Branch, NASA- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
Research Interest
Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Publications
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 Pathak, A., S. Ghosh, and P. Kumar, "Precipitation Recycling in the Indian Subcontinent During Summer Monsoon", J. of Hydrometeorology, 15(5), 2050-2066, 2014. DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-13-0172.1.
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Bagley, J., D. M. Rosenthal, U. M. Ruiz-Vera, M. Siebers, P. Kumar, D. R. Ort, and C. J. Bernacchi, "The influence of photosynthetic acclimation to rising CO2 and warmer temperatures on leaf and canopy photosynthesis models", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, 194-206, DOI: 10.1002/2014GB004848, 2014.
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*Dutta, D., A. Goodwell, P. Kumar, R. Darmody, J. E. Garvey, R.Jacobson, D. P. Beretta, and J. Greenberg, "On the Feasibility of Characterizing Soil Properties from AVIRIS Spectrometer Data", to appear in IEEE Trans. In Geosci. & Remote Sensing, 53(9), 5133-5147, 2015, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2015.2417547
