Dr. Pramod Soni

Assistant Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Civil Engg., IIT(BHU)
Phone No(s): +91 542 716 5306, 9532810930
Email: pramod.civ@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Hydrological modeling, Climate Change, Machine Learning, GIS, remote sensing applications in water resources, Ground water hydrology, Atmospheric Modeling

 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur— Ph.D

Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, 2012-2018

 

KIT-IMK-IFU, Germany— M.Tech (DAAD Fellowship). 

Regional Climate & Hydrology, 2011-12

 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur— M.Tech.

Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, 2010-2012

 

M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur— B.E. 

Civil Engineering, 2006-2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Fluid Mechanics-II - CE-4105 (B. Tech.)
  • Ground Water Hydrology - CE-21352 (M. Tech.)
  • Climate Change Modeling and water resources Modeling - CE-21352 (M. Tech.)
  • Environment and Climate Change - CE-12101 (B. Tech.)
  • Computer Based Numerical Techniques - CE-13102 (B. Tech.)
  • Computer Based Numerical Techniques Lab - CE-13202 (B. Tech.)
  • Engineering Hydrology - CE-17310 (B. Tech.)
  • Open Channel Hydraulics - CE-18309 (B. Tech.)
  • Surveying Lab - CE-14201 (B. Tech.)
  • Water Resource Engineering-I - CE-1851 (B. Tech.)

 

  1. Meena R. R., Kumar S., Soni P.Review on Hydrodynamic Simulation and Analysis Using CFD: Electrochemical Reactors and Redox Flow Batteries, Accepted for publication in ChemBioEng Reviews July 2023, (Journal)
  2. Meena R. R., Kumar S., Soni P., Electrocoagulation of fluoride from water with Fe-based ion electrode, Accepted for publication in Advanced Treatment Technologies for Fluoride Removal in Water, Springer Nature, 2023 (Book Chapter)
  3. Singh V. K., Pandey H. K., Singh S. K., Soni P., Groundwater analysis using Gravity Recovery, Climate Experiment and Google Earth Engine: Bundelkhand region, India, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2023, 103401, ISSN 1474-7065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2023.103401. (Journal)
  4. Soni, P., Medhi, H., Sagar, A., Garg, P., Singh, A., & Karna, U. (2022). Runoff estimation using digital image processing for residential areas. AQUA—Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, 71(8), 938-948. (Journal)
  5. Singh, P., Vaishya, R. C., Soni, P., & Medhi, H. (2022). A Methodological Comparison on Spatiotemporal Prediction of Criteria Air Pollutants. Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment (AJAE), 16(1). (Journal)
  6. Dhanai, P., Singh, V. P., & Soni, P. (2022). Rainfall triggered slope instability analysis with changing climate. Indian Geotechnical Journal, 52(2), 477-492. (Journal)
  7. Soni, P., Tripathi, S., & Srivastava, R. (2022). Impact of renewed solar dimming on streamflow generation in monsoon dominated tropical river basins. Journal of Hydro-environment Research, 41, 12-24. (Journal)
  8. Medhi H, Soni P and Vikas Vidhyarthi; Understanding the relationship between normalized difference vegetation index and meteorological attribute using clustering algorithm in "Smart Sensors, Actuators and Decision Support Systems for Precision Agriculture," Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2022 (Book Chapter)
  9. Gupta, S.; Soni, P. and Gupta, A. K. Optimization of WD-XRF analytical technique to measure elemental abundance in PM2.5 dust collected on quartz-fibre filter. In Atmospheric Pollution Research, 12 (3): 345-351, 2021. (Journal)
  10. Soni, P. Effects of COVID-19 lockdown phases in India: an atmospheric perspective. In Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23 (8): 12044-12055, 2021. (Journal)
  11. Soni, P., Tripathi, S., & Srivastava, R. (2021). A comparison of regionalization methods in monsoon dominated tropical river basins. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 12(5), 1975-1996.. (Journal)
  12. Gupta, A. K., & Soni, P. (2022). Wheat crop yield estimation using geomatics tools in Saharanpur district. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, 56(5), 519-526. (Journal)
  13. Soni, P.; Srivastava, R. and Tripathi, S. Implication of data uncertainty in the detection of surface radiation trends and observational evidence of renewed solar dimming over India. In Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137 (3-4): 2663-2680, 2019. (Journal)
  14. Soni, P.; Tripathi, S. N. and Srivastava, R. Radiative effects of black carbon aerosols on Indian monsoon: a study using WRF-Chem model. In Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 132 (1-2): 115-134, 2018. doi  (Journal)
  15. Srivastava S., Soni P., Tripathi S. Impact of Renewed Solar Dimming on Hydrology of River Basins in Peninsular India. In Impact of Renewed Solar Dimming on Hydrology of River Basins in Peninsular India, 2017. (Conference)
  16. Soni, P.; Srivastava, R. and Tripathi, S. Observational Evidence of Streamflow Trends in India. In Modeling of Environmental and Water Resources Systems (ICMEWRS), Modeling of Environmental and Water Resources Systems (ICMEWRS, 2017. (Conference)
  17. Soni, P.; Tripathi, S. N. and Srivastava, R. Performance of WRF-Chem model during monsoon season over India. In Annual Monsoon Workshop Pune, IMSP, Pune, 2015. (Conference)

Research Projects

1.      Regionalization of Hydrological model parameters for Indian rivers by  AICTE CRS Project    (Rs. 9,05,000/-)

2.      Use of Artificial Neural Network in regionalization of SWAT parameters      TEQIP (Rs. 1,51,098/-)

3.      Mapping ground water quality Depleted area. Potential Groundwater Recharge Zones and Exploring the Farmer’s need based Groundwater Recharge structures in District Mahoba of Bundelkhand region of UP Department of Science  and Technology        (Rs. 14,99,040/-)

Consultancy Projects

  1. Subsidence Report Ground Water Aquifer Study Traffic Study from borrow area to filling area (3 sites) Ambient Air Quality Study (3 sites)
  2. Techno-economics Feasibility Study for filling of Ash 13 sites)
  3. Annual Inspection of GPI operating in Ganga Basins States
  4. Third-Party Inspection of 37 Nos. under construction piped water supplies of various villages of Rampur District under MSDP/PM Jan Vikas Program
  5. Feasibility Study for Installation of rain Water Harvesting Seheme at IFFCO Phulpur Township
  6. Design of Inverted Siphon (Saryu Pariyojna Gonda)
  7. Feasibility Study for Pond Restoration at Azad Park Allahabad
  8. Wetting of Detailed Project Reports under Jal Jeevan Mission
  9. Project of channelization work by dredging for protection from erosion of various river sections and villages

 

AWARDS

SI

Award

Year

1

Awarded with DAAD Masters sandwich program

2011

2

Academic Excellence Achievement award For highest CPI during M.Tech in Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

2012

3

Second Prize in Billiards Inter-Hall Tournament at IIT Kanpur

 2010

4

First Prize in Snooker Inter-Hall Tournament at IIT Kanpur

2011

5

Winner of Institute pool championship at IIT Kanpur

2014,2015,2016

6

Certificate of appreciation from Director, IIT Kanpur for getting excellent feedback from students during the summer course ESO208A (Introduction to Numerical Methods and Analysis)

2016

7

Received best poster award in category Monsoon simulation and prediction in Annual Monsoon Work- shop Pune (IMSP) organized by India Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, held during 2nd March 02-03, 2015 at IITM Pune

2015

HONOURS

    1. Chaired the session in "54th Annual Convention and Exhibition at Lucknow hosted by IWWA Lucknow and Prayagraj Centres"

EXPERT LECTURES

  1. Delivered Expert lecture on Waste management program under the green Skill Development Program of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India organized in AFRI, Jodhpur from 11 December, 2018 to 4 February, 2019
  2. Delivered Expert lecture on ”Basics of Linux and MATLAB” in 5 days short term course cum training programme titled ”InSAR: Theory, Processing and Application” held from August 12-16, 2019
  3. Delivered Expert lecture on ”Numerical Modeling using Finite Difference Methods” in 5 days short term course titled ”Numerical and Optimization Techniques (NOT-2019)” held from November 08-12, 2019
  4. Delivered Expert Lecture on “National Innovation and Start-up Policy(NISP):Guiding Framework for HEIs" at Sadanlal Savaldas Khanna Girls Degree College in Online Mode
  5. Delivered Expert lecture on “Site Visit to Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) Located at Prayagraj Through Online Mode” in 5 days short term course titled” NOVEL APPROACHES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT (NAWT-2022)” held from February 01-05, 2022
  6. Expert Lecture on “World Water Day”, Webinar on Water Conservation and Rain Water Harvesting by on 22.03.2022 organized by “Lakshya NGO Lucknow”
  7. Coordinated an Expert Lecture on “Future of Transport with Intelligent Transport System” delivered by Prof. (Dr.) P. K. Sikdar (Director, ICT Consultants) in the Department of Civil Engineering on 29-07-2022

 

  1. Coordinator in the one-week short term course titled “Numerical and Optimization Techniques (NOT-2019)” held from November 08-12, 2019
  2. Coordinator in the one-week short term course titled “Online Numerical and Optimization Techniques (NOT-2020)” held from 9th -13th Jan., 2021
  3. Coordinator in the one-week short term course titled “NOVEL APPROACHES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT (NAWT-2022)” held from February 01-05, 2022
  4. Coordinator in the one-week short term course titled “DROUGHT AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT (DAM-22)” held from April 14-18, 2022

S.No

Research Topic

Name of Student

Completion/
Registration Year

Ph.D. Ongoing (External)

1

Removal of Fluoride through 3D rotating anode with control release of aluminum content

Ram Raj Meena

2020

2

Effects of Climate change on Water Quality

Megavath Narahari

2021

3

Application of Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Crop Yield Dynamics

Krisna Kumar

2021

4

Assessment Ground Water Resources in Jharkhand State using Remote sensing and hydrological modelling

Maniranjan Kumar

2022

M. Tech.

1

Single and dual frequency atmospheric free precise point positioning using combined GPS and GLONASS observation

Shadab Ansari

2020

2

Rainfall triggered slope instability analysis with changing climate

Prity Dhani

2021

3

Spatiotemporal prediction of criteria air pollutants with the help of air pollution monitoring station data

Pankaj Singh

2021

4

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on Meteorological variables over India

Shubham Khare

2022

5

Impacts of climate change on water quality for a Krishna River Basin

Anandita Raj

2022

B. Tech

1

Impact of climate change on water resources using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Mahesh Chandra verma,
Nishant rai,
Balram yogi,
Kuldeep bhamu

2020

2

Design of Rainwater Harvesting Structure for MNNIT Allahabad campus

Anitya Sagar (20171008)
Pulkit Garg (20171045)
Abhay Singh (20171053)
Umesh Karna (20141003)

2021

3

Impact of Climate Change on Water Footprint & Crop Yield over Mahanadi Basin, Orissa

1. SHIV VIRENDRA CHAUBEY (20181034)
2. AJIT KUMAR (20181020)
3. ADITYA KUMAR (20181095)
4. SHUBHAM KUMAR SINGH (20181019)

2022

IIT (BHU) Varanasi April, 2023-Present

  1. Member, Time Table Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  2. Member, Departmental Website Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  3. Member, UG Core Courses Committee, IIT (BHU)

NIT Jamshedpur Sept, 2022-April, 2023

  1. Co-FI, Examination, NIT Jamshedpur
  2. FI, Lawn Tennis, NIT Jamshedpur
  3. FI, Time Table, DCE
  4. Faculty Coordinator, Final year, DCE
  5. Institute AISHE Coordinator, NIT Jamshedpur
  6. PI, Computational Lab, DCE

MNNIT Allahabad— June 2019 – Sept 2022

  1. O. C. CAD Lab, Department of Civil Engineering
  2. O. C. WRE Lab, Department of Civil Engineering
  3. O. C. SURVEY Lab, Department of Civil Engineering
  4. Faculty Coordinator, Tennis
  5. Member, Time Table Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  6. Member, B. Tech Project Evaluation Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  7. Member, DUGC, Department of Civil Engineering
  8. Member, NIRF and TEQIP Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  9. Member, Departmental NBA Committee
  10. Start-up Activity Coordinator, Institution Innovation Council

IIT Kanpur

  1. Convener, SBRA        May,  2015 - June, 2016
  2. In Charge, Billiard Club, Hall-4,        July, 2012 - June, 2013
  1. Life Member of "Indian Desalination Association" (LM-534)
  2. Life Member of "Indian Concrete Institute" (LM-13152)
  3. Life Member of "Indian Water Works Association" (LM-10249)