anurag kandya biodata

Dr. ANURAG KANDYA

Contact Details:26/234, Vidyanagar FlatsBehind IIM, 132 Ft Ring Road Ahmedabad – 380 015, INDIAMobile : +91- 9714049800 Email: [email protected]: akandya11

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:Degree Institute CGPA / % Year

Ph. D (Urban-Micro Climate) I.I.T Delhi, New Delhi -- Feb, 2015

M. Tech (Environmental Engg.

& Management)I.I.T Delhi, New Delhi 8.23 / 10 June, 2006

B.E. (Civil Engineering)L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad

70.86 June, 1999

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: Institute Position From To

Civil Engineering Department,School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum UniversityGandhinagar 382 007

Assistant Professor

21.01.2015 Till date

Civil Engineering Dept,Indus Institute of Tech & Engg, Indus UniversityAhmedabad 382 115

Assistant Professor

22.07.2014

20.01.2015

Civil Engineering Dept,Institute of Technology, Nirma UniversityAhmedabad 382 481

Assistant Professor

01.01.2006

12.07.2014

Lecturer 04.07.2000

31.12.2005

Visiting Lecturer 17.01.2000

20.05.2000

Civil Engineering Dept,L.D. College of Engineering,Ahmedabad 380 015

Visiting Lecturer 12.09.1999

15.01.2000

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:Institute Position From To

Bio-data of Anurag Kandya, India 1

mailto:[email protected]

I.I.T Delhi, New Delhi

Research Associate

01.01.2008

25.07.2009

Sr. Research Fellow

11.08.2006

31.12.2007

Research Staff 12.06.2006

26.07.2006

BOOK PUBLISHED:

‘Elements of Civil Engineering’ Charotar Publishing House, Anand (2003) (Pages 701, Rs 250/-,) [II Edition, 2011, III Edition 2015] [ISBN : 978-93-80358-45-1]

THESIS / DISSERTATIONDoctoral Thesis: Characterization of Urban Heat Islands over

Megacity Delhi and Simulating its effect on Building Energy Consumption with Mitigation Strategies.

Supervisor : Prof. Manju Mohan, Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT DDuration : January, 2007 to February, 2015. The present research work attempts to quantify the impact of urbanization on the micro and macro climate of megacity Delhi. It begins with the assessment of changing land-use/land-cover of the city using remote sensing data and steps-in for quantifying the associated changes in the Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Land Surface Temperature (LST) and the respective Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR). With the help of the extensive field campaigns undertaken for observing the meteorological parameters like SAT, LST, Relative humidity and wind speed across the city along with the satellite data for the LST, micro-mapping of the Urban Heat Islands (UHI) of the city was done. The impact of the altered meteorological conditions viz.-a-viz. the UHI effect across the city on the building energy requirement was numerically assessed using a building energy model. Finally, the effectiveness of various building envelope modifications for countering the UHI effect was numerically investigated which includes using the newly coined bamboo-concrete wall panels.

M.Tech. Major Project: Assessment of Air Quality of Delhi using Statistical Modelling.

Supervisor : Prof. Manju Mohan of CAS, IIT D and Prof. Mukesh Khare of CED, IIT DDuration : July 2005 to June 2006. The basic aim of the project was to assess the Air Quality of Delhi using Air Quality Index and forecast the pollutant concentration using various statistical techniques. For the air quality assessment, a new concept of Pollution Category Number PCN was coined. PCN is a number which is simultaneously considers the concentration of the respective pollutant and occurrence of the particular air quality (according to the classification of the Air Quality Index) over a period of time. The seasonal and annual assessment for the duration 1996 – 2004 was done for Delhi. For forecasting the air pollutant concentration, five statistical techniques namely SES, ARRSES, HLM, ARX and ARIMA were used.


PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:1. Impact of Urbanization and Land-use/Land-cover change on Diurnal

Temperature Range: A case study of Tropical Urban Airshed of India using remote sensing data by Manju Mohan and Anurag Kandya, Science of The Total Environment, Elsevier Publications, USA, 506 (2015), 453-465 (DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.11.006)

2. Urban Heat Island Assessment for a Tropical Urban Airshed in India by Manju Mohan, Yukihiro Kikegawa, Bhola Ram Gurjar, Shweta Bhati, Anurag Kandya, Koichi Ogawa, International Journal of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Scientific Research Publications, USA, 2(2012), 127-138 (DOI:10.4236/acs.2012.22014).

3. Dynamics of Urbanization and its Impact on Land Use and Land Cover: A case study of Megacity Delhi by Manju Mohan, S. K. Pathan, Narendrakolly Reddy, Anurag Kandya and Sucheta Pandey, Journal of Environmental Protection’ Scientific Research Publications, USA, 2 (2011), 1274-1283 (DOI:10.4236/jep.2011.29147)

4. Urban Heat Island Effect over National Capital Region of India: A Study using the Annual and Seasonal Temperatures Trends by Manju Mohan, Anurag Kandya and B. Arunachalam, Journal of Environmental Protection, Scientific Research Publications, USA, 2 (2011), 465-472 (DOI:10.4236/jep.2011.24054).

5. An Annual and Seasonal Assessment of Air Quality Index of Delhi by Manju Mohan and Anurag Kandya in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Springer Publications, 131(2007), 267 – 277 (DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9474-4)

6. An Evaluation and Comparison of the Various Statistical and Deterministic Techniques for Forecasting the Concentration of Criteria Air Pollutants by Manju Mohan, Anurag Kandya and Manish Yadav, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Inderscience Publications, 44 (2011), No. 1-4, 96-105 (DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2011.038407)

7. Forecasting the Tropospheric Ozone using Artificial Neural Network Modelling Approach: A case study of Megacity Madras, India by Anurag Kandya, S. K. Shiva Nagendra and Vivek Kumar Tiwari, International Journal of Civil And Environmental Engineering: Special Issue on Urban Air Pollution: Measurements, Physicochemical characteristics, Exposure, Health and Dispersion Modelling, OMICS Research Publications, USA, 2012 (DOI: 10.4172/2165-784X.S1-006)

8. Experimental Study of Twin Round Bamboo Concrete Infill Parabolic Tied Arch by Smita Chugh, Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Sudhakar Puttagunta, International Journal of Key Engineering Materials: Special Issue of Novel and Non-conventional Materials and Technologies for Sustainability, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, 517(2012) 208-212.

9. An Experimental Study of Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect by Novel Applications of Bamboo as a Constructional Material by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Smita Chugh, Lalit Mohan Bal, Sanjeev Singh, Sudhakar Puttagunta, Journal of Heat Island Institute International, 7 (2012), No. 2, 182-196.

10.Innovations in using Bamboo as a Structural Load Bearing Element: Experimental Performance Evaluation by Smita Chugh, Anurag Kandya, Sanjeev Singh, Chaaruchandra Korde and P. Sudhakar; International Journal of Bamboo and Rattan, KFRI, India, 9 (2010), No. 1&2, 49-57.


11.Evolving Sustainable Cities through the fabric of Technological Transformations by Santosh Kolte, Anurag Kandya, Ketan Lakhtariya, Vishal Patel, Priyanka Ghosh, Pratima Singh, Harsh Morbia, Procedia Engineering, 51 (2013), 480-486. 4th International Conference on Engineering organized at Nirma University, Ahmedabad during 28-30 November, 2013


PAPERS PRESENTED / PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS AND SEMINARS:

1. Translating the Urban Heat Island effect into power consumption for space-cooling: A case-study of megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan in the 9th International Conference on Urban Climate and 12th

International Symposium on Urban Environment held at Toulouse, France during 20-24 July, 2015.

2. Impact of Urban Canopies on Heat Islands: A case study of megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan in the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop 2014 organized at Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad during 17-18 November, 2014.

3. Simulating the impact of Urban Canopies on multi-meteorological properties: A case study of megacity Delhi using WRF-GIS modelling by Anurag Kandya, Manju Mohan and Shweta Bhati in the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change organized by Indian Climate Research Network (ICNR) constituted by Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Science and Environment held at IIT Madras during 26-27 October, 2013

4. Simulating the impact of Urban Heat Island Effect on Air-conditioning Load: A case study of megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan in the International conference on Future Directions for Weather and Climate Research in the Tropics organized by Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during 3-5 December, 2012.

5. The Changing Climate of Ahmedabad City: A scientific perspective based on multivariate analysis by Anurag Kandya, Yashika Agrawalla and Kamaljit Ray in the 3rd National Research Conference on Climate Change organized by Indian Climate Research Network (ICNR) constituted by Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Science and Environment held at Divecha Centre of Climate Change, IISc Bangalore during 3-4 November, 2012

6. Impact of the changing Urban Meteorology on Human Thermal Comfort by Anurag Kandya, Yashika Agrawalla and Kamaljit Ray in the 8th

International Conference on Urban Climate held at University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland during 6-10 August, 2012

7. Design and Development of Split Bamboo Infill Concrete Arch (SBICA): An Innovation for Eco Friendly Mass Housing by Smita Chugh, Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Sanjeev Singh and P. Sudhakar in the Summit on Sustainable Habitat: Mass Housing, Sustainable Livelihoods, Ecological Sanitation and Sustainable Cities organized by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and sponsored by Coal India, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, and National Mission for Bamboo Applications during 9-11 December, 2011.

8. Innovations in air pollution management strategies: A refined assessment through Air Quality Index Matrix and Pollution Category Number by Anurag Kandya in the International Congress of Environmental Research held at SVNIT Surat during 15-17 December, 2011.

9. Experimental study of twin round bamboo concrete infill parabolic tied arch by Smita Chugh, Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Sudhakar Puttagunta in the proceedings of 13th International Conference of Non-conventional Materials & Technologies held at Changsha, China during 22-24 September, 2011.


10.Organic Waste Management: A strategic Action Plan using Remote Sensing Data – A Case study of an Institutional Campus by Anurag Kandya and Mihir Panchal in Geomatics - 2011: National Conference on Impact of Climate Change with Special Emphasis on Desertification at Ajmer, India during 3-5 February, 2011

11.Short-term prediction of 8-hourly Tropospheric Ozone using Artificial Neural Network Modelling approach: A case study of a traffic junction of megacity Madras by Anurag Kandya, S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Vivek Kumar Tiwari in the 14th International Conference on Harmonisation with Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes to be held at Kos Islands, Greece during 2-6 October, 2011.

12.Short-term Prediction of Criteria Air Pollutants Using Artificial Neural Network Modelling Approach: A Case Study For A Busy Traffic Junction of Delhi by Anurag Kandya, Manju Mohan and Shweta Bhati in the 14th

International Conference on Harmonisation with Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes held at Kos Islands, Greece during 2-6 October, 2011

13.Innovations in Green Building Technology using Bamboo: A Thermal Perspective of Bamboo Concrete Composite and Bamboo Penthouse by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Sanjeev Singh and Sudhakar Puttagunta in the 6th International Engineers Construction Conference organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) held at Cairo, Egypt during 28-30 June 2010.

14.Commercially viable Green Advertisements using Creepers by Anurag Kandya in the Brightest Youth Climate Leadership Summit organized by Hindustan Times in association with British Council and Arctic Holdings at British Council, New Delhi during 24-25 February, 2010.

15.Bamboo as a Green Engineering Material for Rural Housing – a new perspective in the 2nd Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan 2009 by Smita Chugh (nee Gupta), Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Sanjeev Singh and Sudhakar Puttagunta organized by Department of Science and Technology, Government of Madhya Pradesh at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore during 1-3 December, 2009.

16.An Experimental Study of Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect by Novel Applications of Bamboo as a Constructional Material by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Smita Chugh (nee Gupta), Lalit Mohan Bal, Sanjeev Singh and Sudhakar Puttagunta in the 2nd International Conference on Counter Measures for Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA during 21–23 September, 2009

17.Forecasting the Urban Air Quality using various statistical techniques by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan in the 7th International Conference on Urban Climate organized by the the International Association for Urban Climate at Yokohama, Japan during 29 June to 3 July, 2009.

18.Assessment of Urban Heat Island Intensities over Delhi by Manju Mohan, Yukihiro Kikegawa, B.R. Gurjar, Shweta Bhati, Anurag Kandya and Koichi Ogawa in the 7th International Conference on Urban Climate organized by the the International Association for Urban Climate at Yokohama, Japan during 29 June to 3 July, 2009.

19.Decadal Land Use / Land Cover changes in National Capital Region using remote Sensing Data by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan in the National Symposium on Advances in Remote Sensing Technology with special emphasis on microwave remote sensing organized by Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun at Nirma University, Ahmedabad during 18 - 20 Dec, 2008.


20.Combating Urban Heat Island Effect through Harvesting Solar Energy using Bamboo Panels on Building Roof Top by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde and Sudhakar Puttagunta in the Indo – French International Seminar on Environment, Energy and Material Sciences at IIT Delhi during 23 - 25 Sep, 2008.

21.Bamboo: An Alternate Green Building Material by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde and Sudhakar Puttagunta in the International Conference on Improvement of Bamboo Productivity and Marketing for Sustainable Livelihood at IARI, New Delhi during 15-17 April, 2008

22.Main Stream School as Hub for Technology Demonstration and Dissemination: A New strategy of Gandhian Vision for Rural Development by Sudhakar Puttagunta, Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Neha Nandkeolyar, Satya Tirth and Usha Rani in the National Seminar on Revitalization of Rural Institutes: Problems and prognosis at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi during 15 – 16 March, 2008.

23.Productive Activities as Experiments in Main Stream School Education: A New Strategy for Gandhian Basic Education by Usha Rani, Satya Tirth Sudhakar Puttagunta, Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde and Neha Nandkeolyar in the National Seminar on Revitalization of Rural Institutes: Problems and prognosis at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi during 15 – 16 March, 2008.

24.An Evaluation and Comparison of the Various Statistical and Deterministic Techniques for Forecasting the Concentration of Criteria Air Pollutants by Manju Mohan, Anurag Kandya and Manish Yadav in the 11th International Conference on Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes at Queen College, Cambridge, UK during 2 – 5 July, 2007.

25.Air Quality Index Estimations from Measurements and Statistical Modelling Techniques over Delhi’ by Manju Mohan and Anurag Kandya in the 10th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality, Hong Kong, China during 10 – 15 May 2007.

26. ‘Role of Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Management’ by Anurag Kandya was published in the proceedings of the National Conference on ‘Appropriate Technologies for Industrial Pollution Control and Environmental Management’ organized by Dept of Civil Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during 22 – 23 November, 2002

27.Natural Resource Management through Remote Sensing by Anurag Kandya and Shriniwas S. Arkatkar in the National conference ‘ENVIRO 2001’ on ‘Control of Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation’ organized by Dept of Civil Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore during 14 – 15 September, 2001

28.‘GIS and its Environmental Applications’ by Shriniwas S. Arkatkar and Anurag Kandya in the National Conference ‘ENVIRO 2001’ on ‘Control of Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation’ organized by Dept of Civil Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore during 14–15 September, 2001


ONGOING SPONSERED RESEARCH PROJECT:

Title of ProjectSponsoring Organizatio

n

Amount of

Grant

Co-InvestigatorsDuration

Evolving strategies for mitigating Urban Heat Island using Local Climatic Zones and Human Thermal Stress

Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

27.5 lakhs*

Prof. (Dr.) Rajashree Kotharkar,Head, Dept of Architecture and Planning, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

Aug, 2014 to July 2017

(3 Years)

(*the research grant will be revised due to the enhancement of the salaries of the project fellows)

HONOURS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:1. Represented Pan-IIT Gujarat Alumni Association in the PanIIT-2014

Toronto Conference having the theme ‘Innovate, Integrate and Transform – Let’s Co-Create Our Future’ organized by Indian Institutes of Technology – Alumni Canada and Indian Institutes of Technology – Alumni USA held at Toronto, Canada during 6-8 June, 2014

2. Best Poster Award for the research paper titled ‘The Changing Climate of Ahmedabad City: A scientific perspective based on multivariate analysis’ in the 3rd National Research Conference on Climate Change organized by Indian Climate Research Network (ICNR) comprising Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Science and Environment held at Divecha Centre of Climate Change, IISc Bangalore during 3-4 November, 2012.

3. Young Researcher Travel Award by International Association of Urban Climate along with World Meteorological Organization and American Meteorological Society for presenting research paper titled ‘Impact of the changing Urban Meteorology on the Human Thermal Comfort’ in the 8th

International Conference on Urban Climate held at University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland during 6-10 August, 2012.

4. Young Researcher Best Poster Award for the research paper titled ‘Short Term Prediction of Criteria Air Pollutants Using Artificial Neural Network Modelling Approach: A Case Study For A Busy Traffic Junction of Madras’ in the 14th International Conference on Harmonisation with Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes held at Kos Islands, Greece during 2-6 October, 2011

5. Young Scientist International Travel Award by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India through its Science and Engineering Research Council, Department of Science and Technology for presenting ‘Research Papers’ in the 14th International Conference on Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes which was held at Kos Islands, Greece during 2-6 October, 2011.

6. Young Scientist Conference Support Award by the European Association for the Science and Air Pollution (EURASAP) presenting ‘Research Papers’ in the 14th International Conference on Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes which was held at Kos Islands, Greece during 2-6 October, 2011.


7. Recipient of ‘Financial Research Grant’ under the aegis of ‘Idea Labs’ of Nirma University for pursuing research work in the field of Environmental Engineering, October, 2013.

8. Based on the ‘Innovative Technical Concept’ for improving the ‘Public Transportation System in Gujarat’ Pan IIT Gujarat Alumni Association invited me for leading the ‘Policy Advocacy Initiative’ on Transportation Technologies. On behalf of Pan IIT Gujarat Alumni Association, I signed the ‘Memorandum of Agreement’ with Government of Gujarat on ‘Research and Development on Transportation Technologies’ under the chairmanship of Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat during the IIT Conclave on Technology and Development as a part of Vibrant Gujarat 2011 at Nirma University on 11.01.2011.

9. Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding research in the field of Green Engineering Materials conferred by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the 6th International Engineering Construction Conference held at Cairo, Egypt during 28-30 June, 2010.

10.Was invited by the British Council – the International Cultural and Educational Association of United Kingdom to participate and represent India in the ‘Global Innovation Lab Challenge Workshop’, held at Royal School of Arts, London during 29-30 March, 2010.

11.Brightest Youth Climate Leaders’ Fellowship 2010, conferred by British Council in association with Hindustan Times and Arctic Holdings, given for excellence for evolving Climate Change Mitigation Strategies for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development during the Brightest Youth Climate Leadership Summit held at British Council, New Delhi during 24 – 25 February, 2010.

12.Special Presenter Award conferred by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Berkeley, USA for presenting the research paper titled ‘An Experimental Study of Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect by Novel Applications of Bamboo as a Constructional Material’ in the Second International Conference on Counter Measures for Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect held at Berkley, California, USA during 21-23 September, 2009.

13.IAUC Conference Award sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and conferred by the International Association for Urban Climate and was invited for presenting the Research Paper titled ‘Forecasting the Urban Air Quality Using Various Statistical Techniques’ in the 7th International Conference on Urban Climate which was held in Yokohama, Japan during June 29 to July 3, 2009.

14.Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Research Fellowship under the RESPOND scheme for pursuing Doctoral Research at Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during January 2008 to July 2009.

15.Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Research Fellowship for pursing Doctoral Research at Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during August 2006 to December 2007

16.Scholarship for pursuing M.Tech in Environmental Engineering and Management from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi under the aegis of Quality Improvement Programme of All Indian Council for Technical Education.

RESEARCH PAPERS UNDER REVIEW / PREPARATION:


1. Linking micro-climatic changes with building energy consumption: A case study of a less-dense urban canopy of megacity Delhi, Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan, International Journal of Building and Environment (under preparation)

2. ‘Low Carbon Innovations in Green Building Technologies for mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect: A case study using Bamboo-Concrete composite material’ by Anurag Kandya, Chaaruchandra Korde, Smita Chugh and Sudhakar Puttagunta, Journal of Environment Protection (under review)

3. Interaction between the changing urban meteorology and the building energy consumption: A case-study of megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan, International Journal of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (under preparation).

4. Simulating the impact of Urban Heat Island Effect on Air Conditioning Load: A case study of megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan, International Journal of Journal of Urban Climate (under preparation)

5. Micro-mapping the impact of different Urban Canopies on the formation of Heat Islands over megacity Delhi using Remote Sensing data and Geographic Information System by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan, Science of Total Environment (under preparation).

6. Simulating the Heat Islands for a Tropical Urban Airshed in India: A feasibility study for megacity Delhi using WRF-GIS Modelling by Anurag Kandya, Shweta Bhati and Manju Mohan (under preparation)

7. Coupling WRF and Building Energy Model for simulating the impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Air Conditioning Load across megacity Delhi by Anurag Kandya, Manju Mohan, Shweta Bhati (under preparation)

8. Intra-urban spatial variation of Land Surface temperature using Satellite Data and Numeric Modelling by Anurag Kandya, Shweta Bhati and Manju Mohan (under preparation)

9. Impact Assessment of Urban canopies on multi-meteorological parameters: A numeric study of megacity Delhi using WRF model, Anurag Kandya, Shweta Bhati and Manju Mohan (under preparation)

10.‘The Changing Human Thermal Discomfort in megacity Delhi – A time-series Annual and Seasonal Analysis using various Biometeorological Indices’ by Anurag Kandya and Manju Mohan (under preparation)

RESEARCH and ACADEMIC EXCURSIONS:1. Member of Board of Studies for the 2-years M.Tech course on Environmental

Engineering and Studies at School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar.

2. Invited as a Visiting-Faculty at Faculty of Technology, Centre for Environment and Planning (CEPT) to teach a 2 credit Open Elective titled ‘Modelling and Monitoring of Environmental Parameters’ during 5 January – 24 April, 2015.

3. Made significant contributions in conceptualizing, researching and drafting the research project titled ‘Bamboo as a Green Engineering Material in Rural Housing and Agricultural Structures for Sustainable Economic Growth’. The project bagged the ‘National Agricultural Innovation Project’ Award. Funding to a tune of 5.87 core rupees was granted by Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi to IIT Delhi to carry out the research work during 2007-2012.


4. Participated in the measurements of the onsite surface meteorological properties activity across Delhi as a part of the Indo-Japan International Collaborative research project titled ‘Implementation and Validation of Numerical Models for Heat Island Studies in Megacity Delhi’ during 23rd

– 29th May, 2008 and 5th – 12th March, 2010.5. Worked at Geo-Informatics and Database Division, GTDG-RESA, Space

Application Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad as a part of RESPOND project titled ‘Dynamics of Urban Pollution: A curative strategy using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System – A case study of Megacity Delhi’ during 14th October to 12th November 2008.

6. Was invited as a ‘Resource Person’ in the ‘National Bamboo Workshop’ jointly sponsored by IIT Delhi and APTDC Hyderabad, supported by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and organized by Haritha Ecological Institute, Palvancha, Khammam District, Andhra Pradesh to train the artisans for using Bamboo as a load bearing element in housing during 5th – 10th June, 2008.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAMS ATTENDED:

No.

Title Organizing Institute Duration

1. Geomatics in Infrastructure and Design and Management: Water Sector

Nirma University & CEPT University, Ahmedabad

1-6 August, 2011

2. GIS and its Applications Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad

27-31 August, 2007

3. Emerging needs for Rural Industrialization and the Role of Technical Institutions

Centre for Rural Development and Technology, IIT Delhi

6-11 June, 2005

4. Environmental Pollution and Control

Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi

12-17 July, 2004

5. Environmental Auditing and Legislation

Department of Civil Engineering, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

29 March to 10 April, 2004

6. Computer Based Surveying and Mapping Techniques

Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee.

23 June to 4 July, 2003

7. Applications of RS and GIS in Civil Engineering

Dept of Civil Engineering, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

12–17 August 2002

8. Evaluation, Repairs and Rehabilitation of Distressed Structures

Dept of Civil Engineering, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

26 Nov to 8 Dec, 2001

EXCELLENCE IN EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:1. Winner of the S.R. Bhandari ‘Best Speaker Award 2010’ organized by

Ahmedabad Management Association on 26th March, 2010. 2. ‘Certificate of Excellence’ for outstanding performance in the field of

‘Education’ was conferred by the Jain Association of Professionals on 19th

December, 2004.3. Winner of the National Environmental Quiz competition held at IIT Delhi on 25

Sep, 2004.


4. Winner of the ‘Elocution Competition’ held under the aegis of Jain Association of Professionals organized at Ahmedabad on 11th April, 2002.

5. Winner of the S.R. Bhandari ‘Best Speaker Award 2001’ organized by Ahmedabad Management Association on 01st October, 2001.

6. Winner of the ‘Elocution Competition’ organized by Ahmedabad Management Association on 13th January, 2000.

7. Winner of the S.R. Bhandari ‘Best Speaker Award’ organized by Ahmedabad Management Association on 21st December, 1999

8. Winner of the ‘National Debate Championship’ at the Inter Collegiate Youth Festival ‘SPARSH’ organized by National Institute of Technology Surat on 15th

March 1998.9. Winner of the ‘Extempore Competition’ held during the Golden Jubilee

Festival ‘MARQUEE’ organized by the L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad on 25th April, 1998

10.Winner of the ‘Best Communication Award 1997’ organized by the Institute of Human Potential and Development held at Ahmedabad on 11th December, 1997.

KEY EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Position Description of the Activity

Founder Founded the Students Club titled ‘Envirocrats of PDPU’ and architected their annual activity calendar for the year 2015-16.

Chief-Coordinator

Organized the World Meteorological Day in association with Indian Meteorological Society – Ahmedabad Chapter at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar on 23rd March, 2015

Faculty-Advisor

Nirma University emerged as the National Champion in the contest Reform‘n’ation – a challenge to lead India, organized by IIT Bombay during August – October, 2013. I supervised and mentored the Institute’s team of 94 engineering students for the entire event

Joint SecretaryWas elected as the Joint Secretary of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing – Ahmedabad Chapter for a two year term (2012-2014) and re-elected for another two years (2014-2016)

RepresentativeWas elected as the Representative of the Doctoral Students of IIT Delhi and was a member of the Student Activity Council for the academic year 2008-09.

Founder President

Formulated a club called Nirma Youths Working for Environment – NYWEN. Launched by Ashok Bhatt, the Honorable Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Gujarat, the club got international recognition by South Asian Youth Environment Network - SAYEN in the year 2004.

Vice PresidentOrganized the National Leadership Development Seminar – 1997 at Goa, under the aegis of AIESEC – The International Association of Students in Economics & Management.

Co-Coordinator

Faculty Co-coordinator of Indian Society for Technical Education Students Chapter, Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad. (The chapter was adjudged as the ‘Best ISTE Student Chapter’ in the Gujarat Region for the year 2003).

Chief – EditorChief-Editor of ‘ConTActs’ – the Civil Engineering Department’s Bi-annual Magazine (during 2002-2004) and SETU – the Institute’s Annual Alumni Magazine (during 2002-2003) (both at Nirma University)

Member 1. Member of the Editorial Board of Interface – Nirma University’s


Annual Magazine (during 2003-2004, 2010-2013)2. Member of CYWEN – Club of Youths Working for Environment.

Participated in Clean Green project 1997.


PROGRAMS ORGANISED:

Program Description of the Program

CivilometerCelebrating Engineers’ Day, Civilometer was a one-day program organized for the Civil Engineering students of Indus University on 15th

September, 2014. It included technical events like Civil Engineering Quiz and non-technical events like Treasure Hunt and Elocution competition.

World Water Day

It was a ‘Student-led Drinking Water Quality Awareness Campaign’ across Ahmedabad City on the 22nd March, 2012 (World Water Day).

Prakruti aur Pragati

It was a paper contest on Sustainable Development held on 31st January 2004 under the aegis of Nirma Youths Working for ENvironment – NYWEN of ISTE Students Chapter.

AbhivyaktiIt was a 5-day Youth Festival held during 24 – 28 Feb 2003 under the aegis of ISTE Students’ Chapter. It included competitions like Extempore, Creative Writing, Poster making Competition, Snap shot Competition, Just A Minute, etc.

ENFEST–2002It was an Environment Festival organized under the aegis of NYWEN of ISTE Students Chapter on 20.08.2002. It revolved on the theme that a TREE SPEAKS. The students enacted as trees and spoke about the various injustices done to the trees at large.

Prakruti Sanrakshan

It was a month long paper presentation held at the Institute level for the students of first year of branches Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and Civil (January, 2002)

SUPERVISOR OF THE STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

1. Modelling the environmental impact of Metro Rail Transport System (MRTS): A case-study of Ahmedabad city (ongoing)

2. Assessing Urban Heat Island effect over Ahmedabad city using multivariate approaches (2013)

3. Impact of Urbanization on Human Thermal Comfort: A case study of the megacities of India using Biometeorological Indices (2012)

4. Innovations in producing Green Energy by transforming Sound (Noise Pollution) into Electrical Energy (2011)

5. Impact of Urbanization on Environment (2010)6. Artificial Neural Network Based Model for Prediction of Tropospheric Ozone

(2010) 7. Vermi-composting Technology - A work study for an Institutional Campus

(2010)8. The Time Series Study of Ambient Air Quality of Ahmedabad (2009)

COMPUTER PROFICIENCYProgramming Languages : C, FORTRANTools/Packages : Matlab, Erdas Imagine 9.1, MM5, WRF,

Arc GIS 9.2Platforms : Windows (98/2000/XP)


MEMBERSHIPS TO PROFESSIONAL BODIES: Life Member of Indian Meteorological Society (LM2622) Life Member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (LM 3316) Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (LM 36861) Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society (LM015)

PERSONAL DETAILS:Date of Birth : 11th March 1978Marital Status : MarriedFather’s Name : Dr. Ashok KandyaPassport No : H3334783Nationality : INDIAN

REFEREES:Prof. Manju MohanProfessorCentre for Atmospheric SciencesIndian Institute of Technology DelhiHauz Khas, New Delhi 110016Email: [email protected] (O): 011-26591313Mobile: 09818492453

Prof. Sudhakar PuttaguntaEx Associate Professor Centre for Rural Development and TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology DelhiHauz Khas, New Delhi 110016Email: [email protected]: 09391343085

Prof. Rajashree KotharkarHeadDepartment of Architecture and PlanningVisvesvaraya,National Institute of TechnologyNagpur 440010Email:[email protected] Phone (O): 0712-2801376, 2801056Mobile: 09822719413

Date: 23.05.15 ANURAG KANDYAPlace: Ahmedabad





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