Pramod Soni

Graduate student in IIT Kanpur

Z-10, SBRA, IIT Kanpur | 9532810930 | pramodsoni41@gmail.com, pramods@iitk.ac.in
Summary Research Interests

An enthusiastic, adaptive and fast-learning person with a broad and acute interest in thefield Hydrology
of climate and hydrology, I particularly enjoy collaborating with scientists from different Climate change
disciplines to develop new skills and solve new challenges. Aerosols
Solar Dimming
Climate Modelling
Education Hydrology Modelling

PhD, Civil Engineering (Water Resources) 2013 - Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Technical Summary
Grades = 10 (CPI)
Applications and Tools
M.Tech, Civil Engineering (Water Resources) 2011 - 2012
Microsoft Word
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Excel
Grades = 9.75 (CPI) PowerPoint
Latex
Linux
B.E., Civil Engineering 2005 - 2010
MATLAB
M.B.M. Engineering College, JNVU, Jodhpur HEC-RAS
Percentage = 69.08 % ARC-GIS
SWAT
WRF-ARW
Higher Secondary (10+2) 2003 - 2005 WRF-Hydro
Mahatma Gandhi Sr. Secondary School, Jodhpur (RBSE) WRF-Chem
FORTRAN
Percentage = 73.87 %

Secondary Education (10th) 2001 - 2003

Bal Niketan School, Jodhpur (RBSE)
Percentage = 78.17 %

Job experience

9 Months research at KIT-IMK-IFU, Garmisch partenkirchan, Germany during 2011-2012

Responsibilities

Served as president of SBRA community (Residential apartments for married students in IIT
Kanpur) during 2015-2016.
Served as Sports committee member in HEC, Hall-4 at IIT Kanpur during 2012-2013

Awards and Certificates

Awarded with DAAD Masters sandwich program to pursue research in Germany (KIT-IMK-
IFU) for 9 months during October,2011-May,2012

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 Received Academic Excellence Achievement award for highest CPI during M.Tech in Civil
Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Received Second Prize in Billiards Inter-Hall Tournament at IIT Kanpur in year 2010
Received First Prize in Snooker Inter-Hall Tournament at IIT Kanpurin year 2010
Three times winner of Institute pool championship at IIT Kanpur, 2014,2015 and 2016
Received certificate of appreciation from Director, IIT Kanpur for getting excellentfeedback
from students during the summer course ESO208A (Introduction to numerical methods and
analysis)
40 day Training of Township Construction in UMMAID HERITAGE Jodhpur during 2007
60 day Training at Waste Water treatment plant of R.U.I.D.P. Jodhpur during 2008

Journals and Conferences

Soni, Pramod, Sachchida Nand Tripathi, and Rajesh Srivastava. "Radiative effects of black
carbon aerosols on Indian monsoon: a study using WRF-Chem model." Theoretical and
Applied Climatology (2017): 1-20.
Poster presentation entitled "Performance of WRF-Chem model during monsoon season
over India" received best poster award in category Monsoon simulation and prediction in
Annual Monsoon Workshop Pune (IMSP) organized by India Institute of Tropical
Meteorology (IITM), Pune, held during 2nd March 2-3, 2015 at IITM Pune
Presentation entitled "Observational Evidence of Streamflow Trends in India"
presented in International conference on "Modeling of Environmental
and Water Resources Systems (ICMEWRS 2017)" held during March 24-26 in HBTU, Kanpur

Languages known

Hindi
English
German
Marwari (Regional)

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