Mailing address:Dr. Ramesh P. Singh
                                  Professor
                                  Department of Civil Engineering
                                  Indian Institute of Technology
                                  Kanpur – 208 016

              Tel:  0512-2597295 (Off.)
                                 0512-2598201/2590098 (Res.)

              Fax: 0512-2590260/2597395/2590007

              E-mail: ramesh@iitk.ac.in
                              rpalka425@hotmail.com

Teaching experience: 19 years

Research experience: 29 years

Research Papers:  About 127 (100 in international refereed journals)

Thesis Supervision:  Ph.D. - 2 (completed), 4 presently working
                                       M.Tech. - 30 (completed), 1 presently working

Research Grant:  About 100 Lakhs
                                 Supervised research projects funded by DST, AICTE, DRDO, DNES, MHRD, CSIR, ISRO.

Details of Edited Books Published

Awards and Recognition

Reviewer

Chief Editor

Membership of the National and International Societies

Visiting Assignments

International Collaborations
 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE  (Total 19 Years at IIT K)

Duration:         May 1997 - till date
Organization:           Professor
                                 Department of Civil Engineering,  IIT Kanpur
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         March 1991 – May 1997
Organization:           Associate Professor
                                 Department of Civil Engineering,  IIT Kanpur
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         Nov. 1986 - March 1991
Organization:           Assistant Professor,
                                 Department of Civil Engineering,  IIT Kanpur
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         Feb. 1986 - Nov. 1986
Organization:           Lecturer
                                 Department of Civil Engineering,  IIT Kanpur
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         February 1986 - till date
Organization:          Department of Civil Engg., IIT K
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         December 1981 - January 1986
Organization:          Postdoctoral and AOSTRA Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada
 Area(s):                 Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         November 1981 - December 1981
Organization:          Senior Research Officer, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Area(s):                  Geophysics
 

Duration:         January 1978 - October 1981
Organization:          Research Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University
Area(s):                   Geophysics and Remote Sensing
 

Duration:         September 1977 - December 1977
Organization:          Guest Scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Area(s):                   Geophysics
 

Duration:         November 1976 - September 1977
Organization:          Institute's Research Fellow,  National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad
Area(s):                   Geophysics
 

1. Remote Sensing of the Earths Surface and Atmosphere
    Ed. R.P. Singh, A. Tabbagh, J.F.R. Gower, W.L. Smith, A.E. MacDonald, J. Pailleux, K. Tsuchiya and J. Dozier, 1992
    Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.

2. Observations of Earth from Space
    Ed. R.P. Singh, M. Feissel,  B.D. Tapley and C.K. Shum, 1994
    Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.

3. Natural Hazards: Monitoring and Assessment Using Remote Sensing Technique
    Ed. R.P. Singh and R. Furrer, 1995
    Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.

4.Land Surface Characterization and Remote Sensing of Ocean Processes
   Ed. R. K. Gupta, R. P. Singh and Y. Menard, 2002
   Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.
 

5. Spatial Technologies for Natural Hazards Management
    Ed. R.P. Singh and Vinod Tare
    Published by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)

6. Monitoring of Changes Related to Natural and Manmade Hazards Using Space Technology

     Ed. R.P. Singh
     Pergamon Press,  U.K. , 2004 

AWARDS

1. Awarded National Geophysical Research Institute's Fellowship,1976 - 1977.

2. Awarded UGC and CSIR Fellowship, 1983 - 1986.

3. Awarded AOSTRA Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1983 - 1986.

4. Awarded US $ 20 Book gift for good job as Reviewer of Geophysics published by SEG, USA, 1989.

5. Awarded JSPS Research Award by the Government of Japan to work in Japan during July 1993 - Dec. 1993.

6. Awarded Research Fellowship by the Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation, Germany, 1994

7. Awarded National Mineral Award, Department of Steel and Mines, Government of India, New Delhi, 1991-1992.

8. Awarded Indian National Remote Sensing Award, 1996

9. Awarded Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award, 1997
 

RECOGNITION

1. Summerizer of one of the sessions during VIth Workshop on EM Induction in the Earth  and Moon, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, August 1982.

2. Guest Scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Sept. - Dec  1977.

3. Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada, May - July  1986.

4. Guest Scientist, International Center For Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Feb. - March 1977

5. Visiting Scientist, Department of Geophysics, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden,  May - July 1987.

6. Visiting Scientist, Center de Recherces, Geophysiques, Pouilly-sur-Loire, Garchy, France,  June - July 1988.

7. Visiting Scientist, Department of Geophysics, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May - July 1990.

8. Reporter of one of the sessions at the AEG Annual Meetings held at Trivendrum (1986), Baroda (1987), Bhubneshwar (1988),  Madras (1989).

9. Chairman of the Program Committee for the Symposium on "Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys", The  Hague, The Netherlands, July 2 - 3, 1990.

10. Member, SEG (USA) International Affairs Committee,  1988 - 1994.

11. Member, Deep Continental Study Program, DST, New Delhi, 1988 - 1993.

12. Invited Speaker, Symposium on Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology (COSPAR 1990),  Holland.

13. Editor, Proceedings of the Symposium on Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology, Pergamon  Press.

14. Member, Organizing Committee, Indo-US Workshop on Deep Electromagnetic Methods, held at IIT Kharagpur, Jan. 1991.

15. Member, Indian Delegation, nominated by INSA to participate at the 28th COSPAR  meetings held at The Hague, The  Netherlands.

16. Member, Indian Delegation, nominated by INSA to participate at the XX IUGG General  Assembly held at Vienna, Austria  during August 11-24, 1991.

17. Visiting Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, Sopron, Hungary during June-July 1991 under  INSA-Hungarian  Academy of Sciences.

18. Member, Indian Delegation, nominated by INSA to participate at the World  Space  Congress, Washington, D.C., USA, during  August 28 - Sept. 6, 1992.

19. Member of the Working Group on International ELAS- Project 1991 - 1995, sponsored by  International Council of  Scientific Union.

20. Member, International COSPAR Commission on Remote Sensing.

21. Member, Board of Studies, M.Tech Program in Mining Geophysics, Department of Applied  Geophysics, Indian  School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1990 - 1993.

22. Invited Speaker for the Workshop on "Satellite Remote Sensing with Interest to Developing Countries" held  in Graz, Austria, during June - July, 1984.

23. Principal Organizer of COSPAR Symposium A.1-S "Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology" held during WORLD SPACE CONGRESS in    Washington,  D.C.,  USA, during August 28-Sept., 1992.

24. Invited Speaker, First Regional Meeting of Three-Dimensional Mapping of Lithosphere, asthenosphere, held in Chengdu, China, September 1993.

25. Invited Speaker, International Seminar on the theme, "Seismic Protection of the Population and Engineering Constructions at Strong Earthquakes" during July 02 - 06, 2001, Baku, Azerbaijan.

26. Invited Speaker, Third SMOS Workshop at the DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany during December 10-12, 2001.

27. Member, Indian Delegation to World Space Congress, held in Houston, USA, during October 2002.

28. Invited Speaker, The COSPAR Symposium on Natural and Manmade Hazards using Space Technology held in Houston, USA,  during October 2002

29. Member, Indian Delegation, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Sappro, Japan, July 2003.

30. Invited Speaker, UN Workshop on Natural Disaster, Bremen, Germany, Sept. 2003.

31. Member, US Delegation, Indo-US Workshop held at Bangalore, June 2004.

32. Invited Speaker, AOGS Conference, Singapore, July 5-12, 2004.

33. Invited Speaker, 3^rd ICCE, Beijing, China, July 2004.

34. Chairman, Technical session, 3^rd ICCE, Beijing, China, July 2004.

35. Main Organizer, Session on “Early Warning of Natural Hazards” during COSPAR 2004, Paris, France.

36. Invited Speaker, COSPAR 2004, Paris, France.

37. Invited Speaker, International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, August, 2004.

38. Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Cartographic Cutting Edge Technology for Natural Hazard Management, October 2004, Dresden, Germany.

39. Chairman, Technical Session during Asian Seismological Conference, Yearvan, Armenia, October, 2004.

40. Invited Talk, Environmental Engineering Science Seminar at the Washington University in St. Louis during Spring 2004 (April 30, 2004)

41. Invited Talk, Ist Clic International Conference, April 11-15, 2005, Beijing, China

42. Vice President, IUGG Commission on Georisk (2004 – 2008).

1. Reviewed papers published in GEOPHYSICS (International Journal published by the Society of  Exploration Geophysicists, USA)

2. Reviewed Project Proposals submitted to DST, New Delhi

3. Reviewed Proposals for CSIR Young Scientist award, CSIR New Delhi

4. Reviewed Papers published in Current Science (published by the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore)

5. Reviewed Papers published in International Journal of Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis, UK)

6. Reviewed Papers published in Advances in Space Research (published by Pergamon Press, UK)

7. Reviewed Papers published in Natural Hazards (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands)

8. Reviewed Papers published in Journal of Himalayan Geology

9. Reviewed Papers published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (published by Elsevier Science pub.)

10. Reviewed paper submitted for Science.

11. Reviewed paper submitted to Journal for Geophysical Research (Atmospheric Science)

12. Reviewed paper submitted to Geophysical Resaerch.

13. Reviewed paper submitted to J. Geophysical Research (Atmospheric Sci.)

14. Reviewed papers submitted to IEEE Tran. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

15. Reviewer, Project Proposal Evaluation Committee meeting, Brusseles, Belgium.

16. Reviewer of Book for publication to United Nation Press (Japan).

17. Reviewed paper submitted to "International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation"

18. Reviewed paper submitted to "Agricultural & Forest Technology"

19. Reviewed paper submitted to "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters"

CHIEF EDITOR

1. Chief Editor of the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing.
    (2001- cont.)
 

2. Member, Editorial Board of the Journal "The Journal of Terrestrial Observation (JTO)"

3. Member, Editorial Board, International J. Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Press, UK.

4. Corresponding Editor, EOS (AGU).

1. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, USA

2. European Association of Exploration Geophysicists, Holland

3. American Geophysical Union, USA

4. Association of Exploration Geophysicists, India

5. International COSPAR Commission on Remote Sensing

6. Indian Society of Remote Sensing

7. AGU Committee on Internationational Participation (1999-2002).

8. Executive Council of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (1998-2000) and (2000–2002)
 

1. Visiting Scientist, Department of Geophysics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (during May 2002)

2.Visiting Scientist, Institute of Kartography , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (during May-June 2002)

3. Visiting Scientist, ITC, Netherland (June,2002)

4.Guest Scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (during May – June, 2001).

5. Guest Scientist, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece (during June 2001)

6. Guest Scientist, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK (during June – July, 2001)

7. Visiting Scientist, UNEP, Sioux Falls, USA (April to July, 2000)

8. Visiting Scientist, DLR, Germany (June – July, 1999)

9. Visiting Scientist, University of Lille, France (May – June, 1999)

10. Visiting Scientists, UNEP, Sioux Falls, USA (during May – July, 1999)

11. Visiting Scientist, Institute for Geothermics, Pisa, Italy (during summer of 1995)

12. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute for Space Sciences, Free University Berlin,  Germany  (during Jan. 1994 - Nov. 1994)

130. JSPS Visiting Scientist, University of Hirosaki, Hirosaki, Japan (during July 1993 - Dec. 1993)

14. Visiting Scientist, University of Alberta, Canada.(during summer of 1986)

15. Visiting Scientist, University of Uppsala, Sweden. (during summer of 1987)

16. Visiting Scientist, Center de Recherces Geophysiques, Garchy, France.(during summer of 1988)

17. Visiting Scientist, University of Uppsala, Sweden. (during summer of 1990)

18. Visiting Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sopron, Hungary. (during summer of 1991)

19. Visiting Scientist, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (June, 2001)

20. Guest Scientist, ISPARA, Italy (June 2001)

21. Guest Scientist, Southampton Oceanography Center, UK (June 2001)

22. Guest scientist, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece (June 2001)

23. Visiting Scientist, DLR, Wessling, Germany (December 2001)

24. JSPS Fellow, Kinki and Kobe University (December 2001)

25. Guest Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, Karlsruhe University (May 2002)

26. Guest scientist, Institute of Meteorology, University of Bonn (May 2002)

27. Guest Scientist, Institute of Geodesy and Kartography, Warsaw, Poland (May - June, 2002)

28. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University, USA (July 2003 – July 2005)

Following International collaborations have been established:

1. Department of Geophysics, University of Uppsala, Sweden

2. Department of Earth Sciences, Hirosaki University, Japan+

3. Institute of Oceanology, USSR  Academy  of  Sciences,  Moscow,  USSR

4. NASA, USA

5. UNEP, Sioux Falls, USA

6. NOAA, Maryland, USA

7. George Mason University, USA

8. Technical University Dresden, Germany.

8. University of Jena, Germany.

+   Magnetotelluric equipments and a Seismometer have  been  given to us
 on loan which are being extensively used.

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