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Shobhit Singh
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Shobhit Singh
PhD student
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
About me
I am a Civil Engineer turned Earth Science researcher, currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). My broader area of research is application of remote sensing and GIS in fluvial geomorphology, particularly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. After graduating as a civil engineer from Rajkiya Engineering College Ambedkar Nagar my post-graduate study at the Department of Earth Sciences, IITK, has been full of challenges and opportunities.
I worked on several exciting projects dealing with floods, sediment management, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in topographic and geomorphic surveys. My master’s dissertation under Prof. Rajiv Sinha was primarily the “Assessment and mapping of historical changes in the morphology of the river Ganga, identification of hotspots of siltation and their mapping by UAVs. My training as a master’s student in Earth Sciences has nurtured ansense of discipline, patience, and perseverance and has been rewarding and thoroughly exciting experience.
After completing my masters in 2018 I was employed as a Senior Project Associate on a World Bank-funded project dealing with historical time series morphological study of the Tawi river basin and developing an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model to identify the flood-prone areas. In the late 2018, I co-founded UAV based startup "TerrAqua UAV solutions" under Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur.
A wide gamut of challenges and opportunities in Earth Sciences fascinated me to join IITK for my doctoral study in 2019.
Education
PhD student
DEPT. OF EARTH SCIENCES, IIT Kanpur
2019-present
Mtech
DEPT. OF EARTH SCIENCES, IIT Kanpur
2016-2018
Btech
DEPT. OF CIVIL ENGG.
REC AMBEDKAR NAGAR
2010-2014
Achievements
invited by ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) for Koshi Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal
2018
2017-2018
Academic excellence award from academic senate IIT Kanpur
research Experience
2018-Present (senior project associate)
TITLE : “FLOOD MITIGATION AND COMPREHENSIVE RIVER MANAGEMENT MEASURES FOR TAWI BASIN”
Funding agency : World bank
Jan-March 2019 (senior project associate)
TITLE : “DRONE BASED TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE PROPOSED THERMAL POWER PLANT ”
Funding agency : UPRVUNL, India
2018-Present (senior project associate)
TITLE : “THERMAL DATA ACQUISITION USING UAV FOR 20 MW SOLAR ASSETS”
Funding agency : Meissa Technologies Pvt Ltd, india
June-August 2018 (student project associate)
TITLE : “THERMAL INFRARED TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DECISION MAKING IN THE GANGES BASIN (PART-A)”
Funding agency : Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
2017-2018 (Mtech student)
TITLE : “SCOPING STUDY OF SILTATION IN THE RIVER GANGES BETWEEN BUXAR AND FARAKKA”
Funding agency : Water Resource Department, government of Bihar, Patna, India
2017-2018 (mtech student)
TITLE : “UAV DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING, DEHRADUN (INDIA)”
Funding agency : Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), India
2016-2017 (mtech student)
TITLE : “SURVEY OF MAYURBHAJ DISTRICT, ODISHA STATE USING UAV TECHNOLOGY”
Funding agency : Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL), india
tEACHING aSSISTANTSHIP
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Remote Sensing and GEO RESOURCE EVALUATION, 2018-19, 22-23
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Applied Hydrogeology, 2020-2021
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Geological Remote Sensing, 2018-2019
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Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes, 2018-2019
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Surveying and Core Archive laboratory, 2017-2018
RESPONSIBILITIES HELD
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DPGC student nominee (PhD) Earth sciences, IIT Kanpur 2020-2022
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Head-Public Relations, GGI Impact lab, IIT Kanpur 2020-2021
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Department Coordinator OPEN HOUSE 2020, IIT KANPUR 2019-2020
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Department Placement Coordinator, Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur 2017-2018
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Department post- Graduate Committee (DPGC), Earth sciences, IIT Kanpur 2016-2017
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Coordinator Earth Science society, IIT Kanpur 2016-2017
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Media and sponsor head at College Annual Fest, REC, Ambedkar Nagar 2013-2014
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OrganizeR, national workshop on “Ethical hacking” with IIT Bombay 2013-2014
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Senior executive sports council, REC, Ambedkar Nagar 2011-2012
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FOUNDED Council on Education for Technocrats (CET) at REC. 2011-2012
MEMBERSHIPS
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Student member of Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) 2017-2022
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Member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) 2019-2022
PUBLICATION & CONFERENCES
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Sinha, R., Singh, S., Mishra, K., Swarnkar, S. ”Channel morphodynamics and sediment budget of the Lower Ganga River using a hydro-geomorphological approach”. EARTH surface processes and landforms, 2022
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Singh, S., Swarnkar, S., Sinha, S. ”Exploring stage-based flood frequency analysis for flood inundation mapping”. EGU General Assembly , 2021
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Singh, S., Swarnkar, S., Sinha, R. ”Integrating RUSLE and Sediment Transport Potential Approaches for Mapping Hotspots of Erosion Risk in Tawi Basin, India”. AGU fall meeting, 2021
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Singh, M., Singh, S., Laha, A., Mishra, K. ”Applicability of connectivity concept for disaster management and hazard mitigation”. EGU General Assembly, 2021
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Laha, A., Singh, S., Mishra, U, Singh, M., ”Estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of forest fire hazard using Analytical Hierarchy Process and geostatistical methods in Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India”. EGU General Assembly, 2021
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Singh, S., Sinha, R., Laha, A. ”Morphodynamics and Flood Hazard Assessment in the Tawi river using Multi Criteria Decision Analysis”. The Geological Society of America, 2020.
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Singh, S., Sinha, R., ”Sediment Dynamics of the Lower Ganga River : Sediment Budget and ‘Hotspots’ of Siltation using an Integrated Approach of Hydrology and Remote Sensing”. AGU fall meeting, 2020.
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Singh, S., Sinha, R., ”Linking River Dynamics and Siltation in the Ganga River to Flood Risk”. (ICIMOD) Koshi DRR Knowledge Hub Inception Workshop Kathmandu, Nepal, 11–12 December 2018.
Get in Touch
Hostel add: Hall 7, C block, Room no. 115
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur (208016), Uttar pradesh, India
Lab add: UAV data processing lab, helicopter building, IITK
Email: shobhits@iitk.ac.in, shobhits.iitk@gmail.com
Ph: +91-512-2596881, Mob: +91 7053869820 Skype id: live:shobhit.techtronix
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