AI Innovation for Water Policy and Sustainability

Manish Kumar Goyal is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. His research interests include water resources engineering, GIS, and remote sensing applications in water and environment and climate change. He received a B. Tech degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal with distinction and an M. Tech Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. After a brief stint in corporate, he pursued a Ph.D. degree at IIT Roorkee in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Canada. He went on to pursue further research as a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and McGill University, Canada. Dr. Sachidanand Kumar is PhD from Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad,  and post graduate degree from  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He has published more than a dozen papers in various refereed journals and conferences.   Dr. Akhilesh Gupta has a doctorate degree from IIT Delhi in Atmospheric Sciences (1999) and post graduate degree from Lucknow University in Physics (1984).  Dr Gupta has been the  Secretary to Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB); Senior Adviser in the Department of Science & Technology; Adviser to the Union S&T Minister and Secretary to University Grants Commission (UGC).  Dr Gupta has published over 200 research papers in various National and International journals and proceedings of conferences. He is editor of 7 books, author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. Dr Gupta is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Fellow of Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS), and a Fellow of Association of Agrometeorologists (FAAM) and a  Fellow of Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment (FSSCE).