Munir Ahmad Nayak Civil and Environmental Engineering Degree: Ph.D Cornell University Sex: Male Specialization: Environmental Water Resources Systems DOB: 2 nd April 1988 Advisor: Jery R Stedinger Examination University/ Board Institute Year CPI Ph.D Cornell University Cornell University Aug. 2011---Pr M. Tech Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Bombay 2011 9.41 B. Tech National Institute of Technology National Institute of Technology Srinagar Srinagar (J&K) 2009 8.9 Intermediate/ +2 J&K State Board Govt. Higher Sec. Khanda- Khanda (J&K) 2004 75 % Matriculation J&K State Board Dar-ul-Falah Danger Pora (J&K) 2002 63 % Key Achievements DAAD Scholarship GATE scholarship from Ministry of Human Resources Development for pursuing M.Tech from IIT Bombay (Jul 09- June 2011) Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE (2009-Civil Engineering) Qualified All India Engineering Entrance Examination AIEEE (2005) Major Subjects Studied: Physical & Stochastic Hydrology, Water Resources Systems, Environmental Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Ground water Hydrology, Watershed Management, Hydraulic Structures, Marine Structures
Key Academic Projects M. Tech Dissertation Topic: Prediction of extreme rainfall events using mesoscale climate and Climate change effects on extreme events (May 2010- June 2011) Supervisor: Details: Dr. Subimal Ghosh Use mesoscale/synoptic-scale weather conditions 48/36/24/12/6 hours before to predict extreme events. The basis of predicting extreme rainfall events is that the atmospheric conditions during extreme events are entirely different from conditions during normal rainy days. For recognizing the weather patterns during extreme events the possible use of different techniques is being evaluated. The techniques being: fingerprinting technique, weather-typing with discriminant analysis, partial collectives approach and HMM/NHMM. GCM outputs will be used to predict potential extreme events in future. Extreme analysis will be done using future predicted events and past events. M. Tech Credit Seminar Topic: Wind Speed prediction (Nov 09) Guide: Prof. M C Deo Details Prediction of winds at offshore sea location of Goa (India) was carried out using ANN, ARIMA and Polynomial regression. After validation of all the three models; ANN was found to be more accurate than other two methods. Course Projects During M. Tech Topic: Use of Particle Swarm Optimization in Multi-Objective Optimization (Jan-May 2010) Guide: Dr. Janga Reddy Details: Multi-Objective optimization problems are frequent in water resources systems and lot of computational effort is required to solve these problems. MOPSO provide a very efficient and less time consuming algorithm for solving musti-objective optimization. A hypothetical water distribution was taken from literature for study. Topic: Water quality issues and environmental flow requirements (Jan-May 2010) Guide: Prof T.I.Eldho Details: River system involves use of water for survival, irrigation, power generation and environment health. Due to industrialization and human settlement near banks, the water quality is getting degraded. Environmental, economic and social polices are mostly inadequate and insufficient. To critically examine the origin and spatiotemporal distribution of water qualities and life of ecology of water shed we need to asses how much of water should be left in river for different natural uses like fish survival.
B.Tech. Project Topic: Rainfall Runoff Modelling Guide: Dr. M A Ahanger Details: Rainfall- Runoff modelling was done for Jhelum river in Kashmir. B.E. Seminar Topic: Integrated Water resources management and devlopment Guide: Dr. M A Ahanger Details: Water resources efficient utilization can be achieved by considering all the elements which affect water and its usage. For a watershed a integration of all the likely affecting elements is required for efficient utilization. Research Interests Hydro-climatology Water Resources systems Artificial Intelligence in Water Resources Engineering Publications Munir Ahmad and Deo M C(2010) "wind speed prediction by diffrent computing techniques"2010-092 proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Water Observation and Information System for Decision Support BALWOIS 2010 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia Technical Skills Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Linux Programming languages: Strong Background of Matlab, GrADS, C++ Engineering Softwares: AutoCAD, Neurosolutions, Discipulus Introduction of Software: ArcGIS, ERDAS
Extracurricular Activities/ Hobbies Papers Presented In different Technical Symposiums: No Topic Name of Event Organized By 1 Integrated Water resources development and Symposium water resources NIT Srinagar management management 2 CO 2 : Kick the habit Symposium Air and Water NIT Srinagar pollution 3 ANN for wind Speed prediction Advances in fluid and solid mechanics NIT Rourkela Practical training: J&K Projects Construction Corporation Building New Assembly Complex at Srinagar (J&K) Hobbies: Playing Cricket; Football; Swimming Horse riding Positions of Responsibility Graduate Representative MECA Cornell University Graduate Representative CEEGSA EWRS Worked as Volunteer for Workshop on Developing integrated Management strategies or Sustainable water Use in response to Climate Change organized by IITB-Monash Research Academy (Jun 09) Hostel Cricket team Player Department PG Cricket team player Department Chess team player Hostel team Carom player Memberships: Member of Civil Engineering Association (CEA), IIT Bombay American Geophysical Union(AGU) Student membership \
Contact Details Present Address: Permanent Address: 301-Hollister Wagoora Chadoora Dist: Budgam Cornell University, 14853 P O: Pahroo Vai Pampore Pin: 192121 Email: man233@cornell.edu J&K India