Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
📍 4F3 - AB 1
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Research Area
Water/Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Research Interests
Multicontaminants removal by biological processes, Oxyanions and Metal/Metalloids removal, Toxicity studies for metal/metalloid biosludge, Anaerobic Digestion, Resource Recovery from wastewater
2019 - 2020 : Assistant Professor, Rama University Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur
2018 - 2019 : Research Fellow, IIT Guwahati
2020 - 2023 : Research Associate -III, IIT Kanpur
2023 - 2023 : Post-doctoral researcher, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
2010 - 2017 : Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati
2008 - 2010 : M.Tech, Karunya University Coimbatore, India
2004 - 2008 : B.Tech., SVBP uni. of Agri. and Technology Meerut, U.P
Received MHRD (Govt. of India) fellowship for doctoral studies during period July 2010 - June 2015.
Received fellowship from Ministry of Drinking Water Treatment and Sanitation, Govt. of India.
Member of Student’s Gymkhana Council of IIT Guwahati as General Secretary, IIT Guwahati, India, during academic year 2013-14.
2nd Prize in Robotics Module in Annual Techno-Management festival (Techniche-2012) of IIT Guwahati, India, from August 30th – September 2nd 2012.
2nd Prize in One Act Play in “PGIAUCULFEST – 2008” at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India, from January 8th -10th, 2008 as a member of University cultural team.
Best oral presentation/Paper award in conference “Research Conclave”- 2018 held at IIT Guwahati, India, from March 8th-11th, 2018.
Best poster award in ‘International Conference on Current Trends in Biotechnology’ at VIT Vellore, India, from December 8th-10th, 2016.
Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Biological attenuation of arsenic and nitrate in a suspended growth denitrifying-sulphidogenic bioreactor and stability check of arsenic-laden biosolids. Environmental Technology 42(11):1723–1733, 2021.
Himanshu Sonkeshariya Himanshu Sonkeshariya, AK Shakya and PK Ghosh. Development of a sulfidogenic bioreactor system for removal of co-existent selenium, iron and nitrate from drinking water sources.. , 2020.
Siddhartha Paul, Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Bacterially-assisted recovery of cadmium and nickel as their metal sulfide nanoparticles from spent Ni–Cd battery via hydrometallurgical route. Journal of environmental management 261:110113, 2020.
Himanshu Sonkeshariya, Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Development of a sulfidogenic bioreactor system for removal of co-existent selenium, iron and nitrate from drinking water sources. Journal of environmental management 254:109757, 2020.
Arvind Kumar Shakya, Ranjeeta Bhande and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. A practical approach on reuse of drinking water treatment plant residuals for fluoride removal. Environmental technology 41(22):2907–2919, 2020.
Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Simultaneous biological removal of arsenic, iron, and nitrate from groundwater by a terminal electron accepting process. In Wastewater Reuse and Watershed Management. Apple Academic Press, 2019, pages 247–260.
Arvind Kumar Shakya, Siddhartha Paul and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Bio-attenuation of arsenic and iron coupled with nitrate remediation in multi-oxyanionic system: batch and column studies. Journal of hazardous materials 375:182–190, 2019.
Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Effects of backwashing strategy and dissolved oxygen on arsenic removal to meet drinking water standards in a sulfidogenic attached growth reactor. Journal of hazardous materials 369:309–317, 2019.
Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Stability against arsenic leaching from biogenic arsenosulphides generated under reduced environment. Journal of Cleaner Production 208:1557–1562, 2019.
AK Shakya and PK Ghosh. Arsenic, iron and nitrate removal from groundwater by mixed bacterial culture and fate of arsenic-laden biosolids. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 16:5901–5916, 2019.
Arvind Kumar Shakya and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Concurrent removal of nitrate, arsenic and iron from simulated and real-life groundwater to meet drinking water standards: Effects of operational and environmental parameters. Journal of environmental management 235:9–18, 2019.
Arvind Kumar Shakya, Parasmani Rajput and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Investigation on stability and leaching characteristics of mixtures of biogenic arsenosulphides and iron sulphides formed under reduced conditions. Journal of hazardous materials 353:320–328, 2018.
AK Shakya and PK Ghosh. Simultaneous Removal of Arsenic and Nitrate in Anaerobic Batch Reactors. In Water Quality Management: Select Proceedings of ICWEES-2016. 2018, 27–35.
Arvind Kumar Shakya. Drinking water treatment by biological process for simultaneous removal of arsenic nitrate and iron in presence of sulphate. , 2017.
Arvind Kumar Shakya, Saleeq VP and Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Evaluation of the Stability and Fate of Biogenic Selenium-Laden Waste Generated as Treatment Residual in Selenium Removing Sulfidogenic Bioreactors. Available at SSRN 4884305.
AK Shakya and PK Ghosh. Simultaneoous Bioremoval of Arsenic and Iron in Sulfidogenic Suspended Growth Batch Reactors. .